For Juneteenth on Morning Edition, professor Nathan Connolly reflects on the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation, and NPR staff voice the document in its entirety. Today, the country observes ...

Though Juneteenth marks the day Texas was informed of the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people there as it had in other secessionist states, it did not apply to Union states, such as ...

To mark Juneteenth, NPR staff members read the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth — the celebration to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States — is now a federal holiday.

Juneteenth honors June 19, 1865, when the last enslaved people in the Confederacy were freed in Texas. Learn about the ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s.

Juneteenth history explained: The celebration when Texas’s enslaved men, ... When President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the clouds did not part, ...

Juneteenth commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered free.

The Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery. Here’s what did. Two states — Delaware and Kentucky — still allowed slavery until the 13th Amendment was ratified, six months after Juneteenth.

A signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation soon will be on display in Springfield.. Beginning next week, in honor of Juneteenth — the June 19 holiday celebrating the emancipation of those ...

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is held on June 19, a date where Americans celebrate and reflect on the history, journey and culture of Black Americans.. Here's what to ...

They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which President Abraham Lincoln decreed some enslaved people to be free on January 1, 1863. We're about to hear that document in its entirety.

Juneteenth marks the day Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, about two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, to tell the enslaved people ...