ABCNEWS - WATCH: The history of Juneteenth in America
The first observed Juneteenth was June 19, 1865. LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times columnist, and Blair Imani, author of "Read This To Get Smarter," discuss the significance of the holiday.
AMERICANTHINKER - Juneteenth's Historical Irony and the Forgotten Emancipation Proclamation
Photo Credit:Emancipation Proclamation picryl loc Some precise historic realities laid out on what happened when the Emancipation Proclamation was originally issued in 1863 and later announced in Texas in 1865.
NPR (Scott Neuman) - Juneteenth: How news of the Emancipation Proclamation spread through the South
While some enslaved people did not know about Lincoln's order, many learned of it while the fighting was still ongoing through informal networks, rumors and sometimes from slaveholders themselves.