Town of Hingham Juneteenth Proclamation
Photo Courtesy of the Town of Hingham June 20, 2022 Submitted by The Town of Hingham Whereas, on June 19, 1865, two and a half years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War had ended and that enslaved people …