The King holiday had been a free day in the parks system for more than a decade, while Juneteenth was added in 2024.
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.Learn ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Learn ...
The National Park Service has removed Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day from its list of free admission days for ...