
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate @IowaSOS
#OnThisDay 154 years ago, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, TX were informed the Civil War ended & they were free. 1 year later former slaves in Texas began an annual celebration known as #Juneteenth. It's the oldest celebration of abolition of slavery in the U.S. https://t.co/7wghq9F02b — PolitiTweet.org