'Let's prepare the future generations bearing in mind those who have paid the price, made the sacrifice ... Now we are free. Happy Juneteenth, everybody!' said Mayor Sylvester Turner.
HOUSTON, Texas -- It's a special year to celebrate Juneteenth for Texas, as it's now a federal holiday and Emancipation Park marks its 150th anniversary.
The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln freed enslaved people in Confederate states in 1863. It was a measure meant to punish the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War and did not cover enslaved Africans in border states. Bostic is the great-granddaughter of Jack Yates, who is dubbed as the"Father of Black Houston," and was the founding pastor of the Historic Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in the Freedmen's Town area of the Fourth Ward. It became the area's first African American Baptist church and helped purchase land for Emancipation Park.At least three events happen on Sunday throughout the city for Juneteenth. At 10:30 a.m.
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