Because the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to states in the Union, remaining enslaved people were not liberated until the 13th Amendment was ratified on Dec. 18, 1865.

Juneteenth festivities kick off at Freedom Walk and Run at Emancipation Park By Courtney Carpenter, via Saturday, June 17, 2023 ...

Juneteenth is tied to June 19, 1865, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger ordered enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas.

Juneteenth, June 19, 1865, marks the day emancipated slaves in Galveston, Texas, finally found out they were free, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation ...

Cordell read portions of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which freed most of the country’s slaves in 1863 but forced those in Texas to wait more that two years to escape ...

President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation more than two years earlier, on Jan. 1, 1863, declaring that everyone held as a slave was, and would continue to be, free.

It also was established as a federal holiday in June 2021. President Abraham Lincoln declared in the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 that all enslaved people were to be freed.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Juneteenth celebrants in Galveston, Texas, listen to a public reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to mark the holiday. Galveston still holds annual public readings of General Order No. 3 today.