Here S How 7 Tech Companies Plan To Honor Juneteenth
On that day, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston to announce and enforce General Order 3. The order, in part, informed everyone that effective immediately, “All slaves are free.” The first Juneteenth celebrations began the next year. President Abraham Lincoln began the process of freeing enslaved people in America’s Confederate states through the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863. But it took the incremental advance and victory of Union troops to enforce that order....