Names & Meanings
Juneteenth is a portmanteau of these two words.
What are June and nineteenth?
This Texas city is most closely associated with the events commemorated by Juneteenth.
What is Galveston?
Juneteenth was declared a federal holiday by Former President Joe Biden during this year.
What is 2021?
D.C.’s Emancipation Day came before Lincoln’s nationwide wartime emancipation order and freed enslaved people through this kind of federal action.
What is an act of Congress / congressional legislation / federal legislation?
The consumption of Strawberry soda and other red foods like red velvet cake acts as an edible memorial on Juneteenth.
What is the blood shed by enslaved ancestors?
Alternative acceptable responses: West African Heritage, An Act of Rebellion
The Juneteenth flag includes this symbol, representing Texas and the freedom of African Americans in all states.
What is a star?
The announcement reached Texas after the Civil War had effectively ended, making Juneteenth a reminder that freedom was not merely declared but had to be this.
What is enforced?
Alternative acceptable responses: implemented, carried out, put into effect.
Abraham Lincoln’s wartime emancipation order took effect on this date.
What is January 1, 1863?
Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday since this holiday honoring a civil-rights leader.
What is Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
In the years after 1865, Juneteenth gatherings often served this civic purpose by teaching newly freed African Americans about political participation.
What is voter education / suffrage / teaching voting rights?
This is another common name for Juneteenth that emphasizes emancipation.
What is Freedom Day?
Alternative acceptable responses: Emancipation Day, Jubilee Day, Black Independence Day.
The announcement in Galveston came more than two years after this action by Abraham Lincoln took effect on January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The first known annual Juneteenth celebration in Texas took place in this year.
What is 1866?
Because Juneteenth became a federal holiday, it affects the operating schedules of federal agencies, federal courts, and this federal service.
What is the U.S. Postal Service?
Early Juneteenth celebrations showed that the end of slavery did not end this system of racial exclusion from public accommodations and civic life.
What is segregation?
Acceptable alternatives: Jim Crow, racial segregation, or racial discrimination.
Unlike many Pan-African or Black liberation flags, the Juneteenth flag does not use red, black, and green; instead, it uses this three-color palette to place those freed in 1865, and their descendants, within the nation’s civic story.
What are red, white, and blue?
General Order No. 3 framed emancipation not only as liberation, but as a transition from enslavement to this kind of contractual relationship.
What is hired labor?
Alternative acceptable responses: Any variation of employment, employer-employee, paid labor, etc.
Texas became the first state to make Juneteenth an official state holiday by legislation in this year.
What is 1980?
The House approved the Juneteenth bill under this expedited procedure often used for broadly supported, noncontroversial legislation.
What is suspension of the rules?
Excluded from many public spaces, Black communities sometimes raised money to do this so they could hold Juneteenth celebrations in safe places they controlled.
What is buy land / purchase land?
Acceptable alternatives: buy property, establish Black-owned parks, etc.
Some Juneteenth celebrations outside the United States are associated with the Mascogos, descendants of Black Seminoles who settled in this Mexican state.
What is Coahuila?
This Union general arrived in Galveston in June 1865 and issued the order associated with Juneteenth.
Who is Major General Gordon Granger?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in December 1865, abolished slavery nationwide after Juneteenth had announced freedom in Texas.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
The federal Juneteenth bill was sponsored in the Senate by this Texas Republican, whose name is also associated with the 2021 legislation.
Who is Senator John Cornyn?
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Juneteenth celebrations sometimes declined as Black Texans faced segregation, violence, and this large-scale movement from the rural South to cities in the North and West.
What is the Great Migration?