What is Juneteenth, and why is it important? #shorts #juneteenth

in 2021 Juneteenth became a Federal

holiday in the U.S

so what is Juneteenth and why is it so

important

at the end of the Civil War though

slavery was technically illegal it still

persisted in Confederate States on June

19 1865 Union general Gordon Granger

marched into Galveston Texas and

announced that all enslaved people were

officially free to commemorate

emancipation people in Texas began

celebrating Juneteenth a combination of

June and 19th on the very first

anniversary of the announcement today

Juneteenth holds profound significance

as a celebration of the pursuit of true

freedom for all and a continued pledge

to remember the past