(Friday is Juneteenth)….It is celebrated every June 19th.
It has been recognized almost every year in Imperial County. Juneteenth is also called Emancipation Day and Freedom Day. The Day honors June 19th, 1865, when news made it to African/Americans in Texas that President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves living in Confederate states two years earlier. Former slaves celebrated when Union soldiers finally arrived in Galveston to bring the news that slavery had been abolished. With the push for Social Justice, some stats, like New York and Virginia are moving to make Juneteenth a state holiday. It has been a state holiday in Texas since 1980
