#juneteenth flag

The Juneteenth FLAG

THE STAR

For one, it represents Texas, the Lone Star State. It was in Galveston in 1865 where Union soldiers informed the country’s last remaining enslaved people that, under the Emancipation Proclamation issued two years earlier, they were free.

THE BURST

The bursting outline around the star is inspired by a nova, a term that astronomers use to mean a new star.

On the Juneteenth flag, this represents a new beginning for the Black Americans of Galveston and throughout the land.

THE ARC

The curve that extends across the width of the flag represents a new horizon: the opportunities and promise that lay ahead for Black Americans.

The red, white and blue represents the American flag, a reminder that slaves and their descendants were and are Americans.

June 19, 1865, represents the day that enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, became aware of the “ending of slavery” — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Follow Opal Lee the Grandmother of Juneteenth!!!