John Hickenlooper @Hickenlooper
Today we celebrate #Juneteenth. 2 years after Pres. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, there were still ~250,000 enslaved people in TX. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, bringing news that the Civil War ended & pronouncing all enslaved people free. — PolitiTweet.org