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Juneteenth Arkansas Festival 2023
Come celebrate Juneteenth with us. Arkansas' largest Juneteenth celebration.
When and where
Date and time
Saturday, June 17 · 8am - 8pm CDT
Location
Interstate Park 3900 South Arch Street Little Rock, AR 72206
Refund Policy
About this event
- 12 hours
- Mobile eTicket
On June 19, 1865, about two months after the Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Va., Gordon Granger, a Union general, arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved African-Americans of their freedom and that the Civil War had ended. General Granger’s announcement put into effect the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been issued more than two and a half years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln. The holiday received its name by combining June and 19. The day is also sometimes called “Juneteenth Independence Day,” “Freedom Day” or “Emancipation Day.”