June 19, 1865 - Granger's General Orders #3 (Juneteenth)
June 19, 1865 Maj. General Gordon Granger's General Orders, Number 3 Galveston, TX Here's Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on "What is Juneteenth?" Among other things he points out: * " by the time Granger assumed command of the Department of Texas, the Confederate capital in Richmond had fallen; the “Executive” to whom he referred, President Lincoln, was dead; and the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery was well on its way to ratification." * While that date did not actually mark the unequivocal end of slavery, even in Texas, and emancipation has been celebrated on other dates, June 19 came to be a day of shared commemoration across the United States – created, preserved, and spread by ordinary African Americans – of slavery's wartime demise. And here's Baltimore's Juneteenth Memorial from the University of Baltimore https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=219629