The First Juneteenth:

ID: 2848 ~ Source: Keatts, Rowena Weatherly. Interviewed by Rebecca Sharpless, May 5, 1986, in Waco, TX. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. Access full interview here.
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Rowena Weatherly Keatts tells of one of the first Juneteenth parades in the United States. She notes that her father, Gus Weatherly, born into slavery, flew the flag in the parade that day as he celebrated emancipation.

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By Allie Roberts
On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, heard the news of their freedom. More than two years earlier, President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation to establish the freedom of enslaved people in Confederate States…