Freedom Day (June 19th)

“Freedom Day” is June 19th, also called “Juneteenth”. Other names for this day are “Black Independence Day,” Emancipation 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.
 
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
 
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20 June 1868, Galveston (TX) Daily News, pg. 3, col. 3:
FREEDOM’S DAY.
 
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20 June 1894, San Antonio (TX) Daily Express, pg. 5, col. 3:
FREEDOM’S DAY
WAS KEPT.
 
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19 June 1907, San Antonio (TX) Light, pg. 5, col. 3:
FREEDOM’S DAY
CELEBRATED
 
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23 June 1933, Tyler (TX) Journal, pg. 7, col. 2:
Negroes Observe Their
‘Freedom Day,’ June 19
 
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8 June 1982, Waco (TX) Citizen, “Juneteenth Celebration,” pg. 2, col. 5:
The ten senior centers will celebrate Juneteenth on Friday June 18 with a noon Bar-B-Q at each center. June 19th is Black Freedom Day in Texas and will be celebrated throughout the state.