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Juneteenth Timeline
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1863
January 1, 1863
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
1863
1865
April 9, 1865
General Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the American Civil War.
June 19, 1865
Union soldiers arrive in Galveston, Texas to deliver the news that slaves were freed
December 1865
The 13th Amendement is passed, abolishing slavery in America.
1865
1866
June 19, 1866
Freedmen in Texas organized the first of what became the annual celebration of "Jubilee Day"
1866
1872
Sometime in 1872
Black leaders in Texas raised $1,000 for the purchase of 10 acres of land to celebrate Juneteenth, today known as Houston's Emancipation Park.
1872
1890
By the 1890s, Jubilee Day had become known as Juneteenth.
1890
1910
1910-1970
In 1910, the Great Migration, the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States, began, spreading Juneteenth to states outside of Texas.
1910
1979
Democratic State Representative Al Edwards of Houston, Texas, successfully sponsored legislation to make Juneteenth a paid Texas state holiday.
1979
1997
The Juneteenth flag is created by Ben Haith
1997
2016
June 19th, 2016
Opal Lee starts a walking campaign in cities along a route from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C. walking 2½ miles to symbolize the 2½ years that it took for enslaved people in Texas to learn they were free.
2016
2018
Apple added Juneteenth to its calendars in iOS under official U.S. holidays.
2018
2019
By 2019, 47 states and the District of Columbia recognized Juneteenth, although only one state (Texas) has adopted the holiday as a paid holiday for state employees.
2019
2020
June 11, 2020
Nike announces that June 19th (Juneteenth) will be a company paid holiday. (All stores and factories closed)
2020
2021
June 17, 2021
The United States Senate passed a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.