The Significance of Juneteenth – by Lori Caudill

The Significance of Juneteenth – by Lori Caudill

By June 19, 1865, the Civil War was over and Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated months earlier: so, what is the significance of that date? It was on June 19, 1865, that Major General Gordon Granger and his Union Army soldiers rode into Galveston, Texas, where...