![Senator Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/senate_headshot.jpg?itok=_fixW8V_)
11th Annual Rochester Juneteenth Celebration
Joseph E. Robach
June 19, 2013
![](/sites/default/files/styles/760x377/public/1017219_563690963673662_666270051_n_0.jpg?itok=LwMP_Vh5)
Last weekend, I joined 1,000 fellow Rochester residents at Susan B. Anthony Square to celebrate the 11th annual local Juneteenth Celebration. Juneteenth is the celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863, but it wasn’t until June 19, 1865, that slaves in Galveston, Texas, got word that the Civil War had ended and all the enslaved were free.
Share this Article or Press Release
Newsroom
Go to NewsroomFire Prevention First Poster Contest
February 20, 2015
2015-2016 EXECUTIVE BUDGET PROPOSAL INFORMATION
February 12, 2015
Eliminating the GEA
February 11, 2015
![](/sites/default/files/styles/760x377/public/%2802-10-15%29%20650-02-052_0.jpg?itok=EIcZDKu6)
Reading at Autumn Lane Elementary School
February 6, 2015