Celebrating Juneteenth Across Michigan 2023
What is Juneteenth? Juneteenth (combo of June + Nineteenth), is an annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War, has been celebrated since the late 1800s. On June 19, 1865, about two months after the Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Va., Gordon Granger, a Union […]