Huston-Tillotson International Alumni Association - Austin Chapter
Sat, Jun 15
|March begins at the corner of MLK & Comal.
Juneteenth Parade 2019
Please sign up to walk with HTIAA Austin Chapter in the Juneteenth Parade and/or bring water, candy, beads or trinkets to pass out along the walk.
Time & Location
Jun 15, 2019, 9:30 AM
March begins at the corner of MLK & Comal.
About The Event
Juneteenth, also known as
"Freedom Day" or "Emancipation Day"
commemorates the announcement of the
abolition of slavery in Texas.
On September 22nd, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation effectively ending slavery on January 1st, 1863,
however, the Proclamation had little effect in the State of Texas until two and a half years later. It was on June 19th, 1865, that Union General Gordon Granger read General Orders No. 3 to the people of Galveston, Texas:
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