Juneteenth Dates
The date we celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the last slaves in Texas gaining their freedom
(Month and day)
What is June 19th?
The last state where slaves gained their freedom
What is Texas?
Juneteenth is the combination of what words?
What is June and Nineteenth?
The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act was signed into law in this year.
What is 2021?
The last state to legally abolish slavery in 1865.
What is Mississippi?
List one name often used to commemorate Juneteenth
What is Freedom Day/Emancipation Day/Jubilee Day/Black Independence Day?
It was on January 1, 1863 that this proclamation was issued declaring that all persons held as slaves shall be free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This was the first state to recognize Juneteenth as an official holiday.
What is Texas?
What does Juneteenth celebrate?
What is the enslaved people of Texas learning of their emancipation?
The celebration of Juneteenth was revived during this movement
(1954 - 1968)
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
It was this many years after signing the Emancipation Proclamation when troops arrived in Galveston, TX to ensure that all enslaved people be freed
What is 2 years?
Which Constitutional Amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment?