This bookmark Commemorates and Memorializes the establishment of Juneteenth as a National Holiday. It heralds the actual end of the enslavement of black people in America. In Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger read General Order No. 3. which declared in part, "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States all slaves are free.."