Juneteenth is a federal holiday also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day. It's celebrated on June 19 to commemorate the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston to announce the Civil War was over,

June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Juneteenth will be celebrated all throughout Northwest Florida come Thursday and into the weekend. June 19, 1865, marks the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were finally told they were free under the Emancipation Proclamation. To many, it's the country's second day of independence.