What is Juneteenth, and why is it important?

• Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863

• in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later.
  Freedom finally came on

June 19, 1865

• , when some 2,000 Union troops arrived
  in Galveston Bay, Texas

The Truth What is Juneteenth, and why is it important?
Karlos K. Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio

Get to know the history of Juneteenth, a commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War. -- At the end of the Civil War, though slavery was technically illegal in all states, it still persisted in the last bastions of the Confederacy.

This was the case when Union General Gordon Granger marched his troops into Galveston, Texas on June 19th and announced that all enslaved people there were officially free. Karlos K. Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio dig into the history of Juneteenth.

Lesson by Karlos K. Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio, directed by Rmi Cans, Atypicalist.