Come explore 22 years of Sacramento's Juneteenth celebrations alongside the National history of Juneteenth in this powerful exhibit.

On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of the Civil War and that the enslaved people in the town were free. This was the last area in the South to receive the orders that slavery was abolished. This announcement came over two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. What has become known as Juneteenth is now a federal holiday and is a symbolic date representing the African American struggle for freedom and equality in the United States and is also a celebration of family and community.

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