WESTAMPTON, N.J. (CBS) -- Next week the nation will celebrate Juneteenth, the national holiday marking June 19, 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas to carry out the Emancipation Proclamation, ...
WESTAMPTON, N.J. (CBS) -- Next week the nation will celebrate Juneteenth, the national holiday marking June 19, 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas to carry out the Emancipation Proclamation, ...
In the spirit of Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved Black people in the U.S., a historic free Black community in Burlington County is fighting to keep its story alive ...
The family tree of Mary Giles Weston and her son, Guy, took root two centuries ago in a place called Timbuctoo. In 1829, Mary’s great-great-great-grandfather John Bruer bought an acre of land near the ...