Juneteenth National Freedom Day in Ohio

The nineteenth day of June is designated as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day" to acknowledge the freedom, history, and culture that June 19, 1865, the day on which the last slaves in the United States were set free in Texas, has come to symbolize.

(Ohio Revised Code - GENERAL PROVISIONS - Chapter 5: STATE INSIGNIA; SEALS; HOLIDAYS: 5.2247 Juneteenth national freedom day.

Effective Date: 2008 SB243 04-07-2009)

There is also National Freedom Day which is a United States observance on February 1 honoring the signing by Abraham Lincoln of a joint House and Senate resolution that later became the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. President Lincoln signed the Amendment outlawing slavery on February 1, 1865, although it was not ratified by the states until later.

Source: ohio.gov

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

Wendell Willkie

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

Corrine Brown

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

Marck E. Estemil

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Mortimer Adler