Celebrating Juneteenth at Roosevelt Public Library

Children gathered at the Roosevelt Public Library on June 19, 2018, to learn about and celebrate Juneteenth. The holiday acknowledges the freeing of nearly 200,000 enslaved African-Americans in Texas on June 19, 1865 -- two and a half years after then Presidemt Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which terminated slavery in states rebelling against the union. Credit: Reece T. Williams