JUNETEENTH
Juneteenth is celebrated on this day each year.
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President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
Escaped slavery and led dozens to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
The war that ultimately led to Juneteenth.
Civil War
Civil rights leader who delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The state where General Order No. 3 was announced in 1865.
Texas
The date the Emancipation Proclamation took effect.
Answer: January 1, 1863
Publisher of The North Star newspaper.
Frederick Douglass
Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Robert E. Lee
Woman whose arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
The Union general who announced freedom in Galveston.
Gordon Granger
The amendment that abolished slavery nationwide.
13th Amendment
Abolitionist who led the raid on Harpers Ferry.
John Brown
Union general who later became the 18th President.
Ulysses S. Grant
Supreme Court case that ended legal school segregation in 1954.
Brown v. Board of Education
The city where General Order No. 3 was read.
Galveston
The amendment that granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
14th Amendment
Formerly enslaved woman who famously asked, "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
Battle often considered the turning point of the Civil War.
Gettysburg
The 1964 law that prohibited discrimination in public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
The year Juneteenth became a federal holiday.
2021
The amendment that prohibited denying voting rights based on race.
15th Amendment
Publisher of The Liberator newspaper.
William Lloyd Garrison
The Union victory that gave the North control of the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
The organization co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1909.
NAACP