Juneteenth

A band plays during a Juneteenth parade Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Galveston, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Photos of Juneteenth celebrations commemorating end to slavery

Juneteenth celebrations took place across the U.S., commemorating the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people in Texas learned of their freedom.
 
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president

 
Robert Reid holds a flag during a Juneteenth celebration at the African Burying Ground Memorial Park Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Portsmouth, N.H. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Juneteenth celebrations across the US commemorate the end of slavery

 
This image provided by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation shows the 2021 excavation of the original First Baptist Church of Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation via AP)

Rebuilding one of the nation’s oldest Black churches begins at Juneteenth ceremony

 
President Joe Biden speaks at the Memorial Amphitheater after laying a wreath at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, May 30, 2022, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Joe Biden to attend Juneteenth celebration at historic AME church in Texas

 

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1 woman killed, 9 other people wounded in shooting at Juneteenth celebration in South Carolina

 
Rhonda Grayson and Jeff Kennedy pose for a portrait on Monday, June 16, 2025 in Moore, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

In Oklahoma, Juneteenth highlights tribal slavery descendants’ fight for recognition and citizenship

 
Norman Harris, executive director of JMF Corporation that puts on a Juneteenth celebration in Denver, is shown on the light-rail track running through the neighborhood where the event is staged Friday, June 13, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Chelsea Andrews, of Washington, waves the Juneteenth flag during a Juneteenth celebration at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, Monday, June 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

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A view of a section of the 1865 Juneteenth General Order No. 3 that is displayed by the Dallas Historical Society at the Fair Park Hall of State in Dallas, Friday, June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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Alabama lawmakers vote to make Juneteenth an official state holiday

 

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Opal Lee, ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth,’ leads 2.5 mile annual walk in Texas

 

First-ever Juneteenth honor flight takes 26 Black veterans to Washington memorials

 
Visitors arrive at the National Monument to Freedom on Wednesday, June 19, 2024 in Montgomery, Ala. The monument is inscribed with 122,000 surnames that formerly enslaved people chose for themselves, as documented in the 1870 Census, after being emancipated at the Civil War's end. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

On Juneteenth, monument dedicated in Alabama to those who endured slavery

 
Associated Press reporter Darren Sands, right, reads the names of United States Colored Troops regimental soldiers, including his great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, at the African American Civil War Memorial as part of Juneteenth commemorations on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil War

 
Opal Lee sits in a rocking chair while waiting to give interviews on the porch of her new home in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, June 14, 2024. Habitat for Humanity built Lee the home on the same lot where as a child a white mob destroyed her family's home driving them away. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Opal Lee gets keys to her new Texas home 85 years after a racist mob drove her family from that lot

 
Gladys Knight performs during a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle join Biden for early Juneteenth celebration on White House lawn

 
FILE - Kentucky Gov, Andy Beshear speaks in the Rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, March 26, 2024. With a stroke of his pen, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear took action Thursday to designate Juneteenth as a holiday for state executive branch workers and expand protections in state hiring and employment by banning discrimination based on hairstyles. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, file)

Kentucky governor takes action on Juneteenth holiday and against discrimination based on hairstyles

 

Juneteenth proclaimed state holiday again in Alabama, after bill to make it permanent falters

 

Opal Lee gets keys to her new Texas home 85 years after a racist mob drove her family from that lot

 

‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ is gifted a new home

 

Juneteenth celebration in Oakland, California, turned violent when several people were shot

 

US President Biden celebrates Juneteenth holiday on White House South Lawn

 

Former President Joe Biden gives Juneteenth speech at historic AME church in Texas

 

Juneteenth’s roots go back to the document that declared freedom for the enslaved people in Texas