Juneteenth falls on June 19th and is a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. It's an important day for ...

The event featured a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation from Brian Bibeau, who's been long involved in the event, who portrayed Brigadier General McCook. Attendees joined to commemorate May ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation changing the legal status of slaves to free people on Jan. 1, 1863, but the war between the Union and Confederacy would go on for ...

It's the 160th anniversary of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee, which occurred more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Word reached Florida ...

Edward M. McCook read the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee. Emancipation Day and Juneteenth took place two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation ...

On that day in 1865, the Emancipation Proclamation was read for the first time in Florida on the steps of what is now known as the Knott House in Tallahassee and officially freed the enslaved ...

Gordon Granger arrived in the state of Texas to share the news of the Emancipation Proclamation, announcing the official end of the Civil War. Juneteenth was signed into law as a federal holiday ...

General Edward McCook read the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee, freeing slaves in Florida. It’s a day that’s celebrated in Tallahassee, from marking the graves of the Union soldiers ...

The Emancipation Proclamation will be read on the front steps, just as it was 160 years ago. After the ceremony, there will be free lunch and other activities in nearby Lewis Park. It all starts ...

The news came two and half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, and more than two months after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at ...