People across the country will observe Juneteenth Monday, a year after it became a federal holiday.
President Joe Biden signed legislation last year making June 19 the nation’s 12th federal holiday. June 19, 1865, was the day that Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to order freedom for the enslaved Black people in the state. It was two months after the Confederacy had surrendered in the Civil War and about 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the Southern states.
The Boston Juneteenth Committee and the National Center of Afro-American Artists led a parade through Roxbury Sunday.
More observances are planned for the holiday Monday.
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