Articles About Juneteenth

• Juneteenth celebration to be held

  By YS News StaffJune 11, 2018

  

  Central Chapel AME Church and First Baptist Church will present this year’s Juneteenth celebration at Central Chapel, located at 411 S. High St., on Tuesday, June 19, beginning at 6 p.m.

• Listen for stories of freedom

  By Carol SimmonsJune 18, 2015

  

  While the American Civil War continued to rage unabated, President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”