June 27, 2024
Friends of the African American Cemetery Founder Dave Thomas of Port Chester scrubs down a headstone marking a veteran buried in the hallowed grounds as part of a service project to celebrate Juneteenth on Saturday, June 22.
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Rye Town teens celebrate Juneteenth by leading tours through historic cemetery
Juneteenth commemorates the day the last slaves in the U.S. were freed in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued. It took 156 years, until June 17, 2021, for President Joe Biden to declare Juneteenth a federal holiday.
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