Taking the kids: Let\u2019s celebrate Juneteenth

Eileen Ogintz, Tribune Content Agency The message took a long time to get to the destination. More than two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, and months after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Union troops finally arrived in Galveston, Texas, announcing the end of slavery. It was June 19, 1865. kAmQ%96 A6@A=6 @7 %6I2D 2C6 :?7@C>65 E92E[ :? 244@C52?46 H:E9 2 AC@4=2>2E:@? 7C@> E96 tI64FE:G6 @7 E96 &?:E65 $E2E6D[ 2== D=2G6D 2C6 7C66[Q k2 9C67l