VA News – VA’s Center for Minority Veterans (CMV) and Center for Women Veterans (CWV) recently held a conversation on the nature of our Nation’s ancestral roots and the history of Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day.
Juneteenth is when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the end of slavery in the state. This announcement came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which had declared all slaves in Confederate states to be free.
