LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, commemorates the day on June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced that all enslaved people were to be freed.
This was two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
Around the city of Louisville there are multiple events marking the day and celebrating this significant moment in American culture. The Juneteenth Jubilee Commission specifically highlighted a few events, including the Kentucky Opera’s Third Annual “Amplify Songs of Justice.”…