Episode 16: Opal Lee - The Grandmother of Juneteenth - Season of Opposition Ep 16

Brief History of Juneteenth June 19, 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas , and announced that enslaved Black people were free . This day became known as Juneteenth , combining “June” and “nineteenth.” It marked the end of slavery in the last Confederate state, though Black Americans remained unfree in many other ways…