The Juneteenth historic marker is located on Strand Street in Galveston. The marker commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that Union soldiers arrived in Galveston to inform enslaved black Texans that slavery had ended, two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. June 15, 2020. Credit: Pu Ying Huang for The Texas Tribuneis located on Strand Street in Galveston. The marker commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that Union soldiers arrived in Galveston to inform enslaved black Texans that slavery had ended, two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. June 15, 2020. Credit: Pu Ying Huang for The Texas Tribune
U.S. Senator John Cornyn speaks to the press at the University of Texas at Austin tower in Austin on June 14, 2019. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune
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