The Quiz: Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when slavery was ended in which state?
“The Peach State”
“The Show Me State”
“The Cotton State”
“The Lone Star State”
Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached Texas. On June 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced that enslaved African Americans were free. Union Army General Gordon Granger delivered the belated news that slavery ended two and a half years earlier with President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Some historians blame the lapse in time on poor communication in that era, while others believe Texan slave-owners purposely withheld the information. Juneteenth is now recognized as a federal holiday to celebrate the end of slavery in the United State.
The correct answer to this quiz is “The Lone Star State”.