Juneteenth 2022: Library of Congress

How did newspapers report June 19, 1865, order by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger?

The blog discusses some of the thousands of documents, discusses a few of the recordings and photographs in the Library’s collections that document Juneteenth and the aftermath of slavery by the people who endured it.

This blog discusses the legislative history of Juneteenth and provides information about the members of Congress who worked to make it a federal holiday.

This collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration.