Juneteenth
Kelly Ingram Park / Birmingham Civil RIghts Institute 5th Avenue N & 16th Street, Birmingham, AL, United StatesJuneteenth, a combination of June and Nineteenth, is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. and is observed on June 19, 2016. On January 01, 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free. Due to the really […]