About Juneteenth
April 12, 1861
The Start of the Civil War.
January 1, 1863
President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. an executive order.
June 19, 1865
Major General Gordon Granger, as commander of the Department of Texas, issued General Order No. 3. He led Union troops into Galveston, Texas on that day, to inform the people there of the freedom issued to those who’d been enslaved.
December 6, 1865
The abolition of slavery became law with the passage of the
13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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