Emancipation Day (June 19th)

“Emancipation Day” is June 19th, also called “Juneteenth”. Other names for this day are “Black Independence Day,” “Freedom Day” and “Jubilee Day.” The day celebrates the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas on June 19, 1865, at the end of the American Civil War.
 
“The intelligent and more respectable black People of our city and county celebrated their emancipation day on Monday last, the 19th last” was printed in the Tri-Weekly State Gazette (Austin, TX) on June 21, 1871. “The negroes at Columbus intend celebrating the 19th, Emancipation day” was printed in the Houston (TX) Telegraph on June 19, 1873. “EMANCIPATION DAY.—The colored people of this city, county and adjacent counties are preparing to have a celebration on the nineteenth of this month in this city” was printed in the Weekly Democratic Statesman (Austin, TX) on June 18, 1874. The term “Emancipation Day” is still popularly used.
 
 
Wikipedia: Juneteenth
Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday’s name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, referring to June 19, 1865, the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War.
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Also called
Jubilee Day
Emancipation Day (Texas)
Freedom Day
Black Independence Day
 
The Portal to Texas History
27 April 1867, Dallas (TX) Herald, pg. 2, col. 4:
The negroes to the number of thousands, celebrated emancipation day this afternoon by procession, etc.
 
The Portal to Texas History
21 June 1871, Tri-Weekly State Gazette (Austin, TX), pg. 3, col. 1:
The intelligent and more respectable black People of our city and county celebrated their emancipation day on Monday last, the 19th last.
 
Newspapers.com
20 June 1872, Galveston (TX) Daily News, “From Columbus,” pg. 2, col. 5:
The negroes celebrated the Seventh Anniversary of Emancipation to-day.
 
The Portal to Texas History
19 June 1873, Houston (TX) Telegraph, pg. 3, col. 4:
The negroes at Columbus intend celebrating the 19th, Emancipation day.
 
Newspapers.com
18 June 1874, Weekly Democratic Statesman (Austin, TX), pg. 3, col. 1:
EMANCIPATION DAY.—The colored people of this city, county and adjacent counties are preparing to have a celebration on the nineteenth of this month in this city.
 
Newspapers.com
31 May 1878, Brenham (TX) Weekly Banner, pg. 3, col. 3:
EMANCIPATION day wil lbe celebrated in becoming style by the colored population of Brenham, June 19th, in the grove at the head of Hog Branch.
 
Newspapers.com
20 June 1879, Brenham (TX) Weekly Banner, pg. 3, col. 4:
Emancipation Day.
 
Newspapers.com
20 June 1880, Galveston (TX) Daily News, pg. 4, col. 2:
EMANCIPATION DAY.
Bolton’s Garden the Scene of the Grand Jubilee.
The fifteenth anniversary of emancipation day was celebrated by the colored citizens of Galveston at Bolton’s garden yesterday on Center street.