Juneteenth birthplace Galveston commemorates holiday

Juneteenth kicked off in Galveston, Texas on Saturday, commemorating the end of the legal enslavement of Black Americans nearly 160 years ago. Duri...

June 20, 2022
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Juneteenth kicked off in Galveston, Texas on Saturday, commemorating the end of the legal enslavement of Black Americans nearly 160 years ago. During the event at Ashton Villa, the former headquarters for Galveston's Confederate Army, Alana Edwards Holloway praised the efforts of her father - former State Representative Al Edwards. The Houston legislator helped make Juneteenth a statewide holiday in 1980. Last year, Biden signed into law a bill that made Juneteenth a federal holiday. "My father, late and former State Representative Al Edwards, was majorly focused on making Juneteenth not only a state holiday, but also a national holiday, and bringing awareness to the fact that Union Army General Gordon Granger came to Galveston to free the 250,000 slaves that were left still in Texas even two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

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