Juneteenth is literally close to home for me: it commemorates that the news & force of the Emancipation Proclamation was slow to reach all regions under Confederate control, & did not reach Galveston, Texas (then a major port city) until June 19, 1865, two & a half years after the EP was signed.
Juneteenth is an often overlooked event in our nation’s history. On June 19, 1865, Union troops freed enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay and across Texas some two and a half years after Presi...
