Juneteenth recognizes the day in 1865 when federal troops freed the last enslaved people in Texas, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
'We became free!' Savannah community celebrates Juneteenth at Daffin Park

Juneteenth recognizes the day in 1865 when federal troops freed the last enslaved people in Texas, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.