Welcome To And Still We Rise...Galveston's Juneteenth Story

General Orders, No. 3, was issued on June 19, 1865. The orders, among others read by General Gordon Granger at sites throughout the city, announced to the people of Texas that all enslaved people were free. This day, now known as Juneteenth, Freedom Day, or Emancipation Day, is one of Galveston Island’s most important historical moments and has been marked by remembrance and celebrations almost every year since. Galveston Historical Foundation, led by its African American Heritage Committee, developed this new exhibit in the carriage house of the 1859 Ashton Villa. And Still We Rise… Galveston’s Juneteenth Story introduces the context and consequences of that announcement from 1865 to the present day, in a long journey towards “absolute equality.” Learn more at www.galvestonhistory.org/andstillwerise.