Weeks after the Civil War's guns fell silent and barely two months after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas. They had come to enforce the Emancipation ...

ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The nation’s longest-running Emancipation Day Parade will march through the streets of downtown Charleston on New Year’s Day. The Emancipation Proclamation issued by ...

For at least 60 years following the end of the Civil War, Jefferson City's Black citizens annually celebrated emancipation. They held picnics, barbecues, parades, dances, oratorical programs, river ...

MIAMI - Juneteenth is widely recognized as the longest-running emancipation celebration, yet it is important to acknowledge that various dates commemorating emancipation are observed throughout the ...