St. Andrew’s Update–June 19, 2024
St. Andrew’s Midweek Update June 19, 2024 Happy Juneteenth Today, June 19th, is Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a celebration that marks the date in 1865 when 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, to announce that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state were free by executive decree. This event, which liberated…