Make plans to celebrate Juneteenth Freedom Day at LLCC on June 19, 2024, with the second annual Freedom Walk. Each day before the celebration, the LLCC Juneteenth Committee will share a fact about this historic day.

Juneteenth fact: More than two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, on Jan. 1, 1863, enslaved people in Texas were not aware they were already free. The June 19 announcement brought that information to the 250,000 enslaved people there. See more Juneteenth facts from Mental Floss.