Kansas has established Juneteenth as a state holiday to celebrate the day the last enslaved Americans received word that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation to abolish slavery.
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Kansas has established Juneteenth as a state holiday to celebrate the day the last enslaved Americans received word that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation to abolish slavery.
