First Baptist Church of Crestmont Pastor Jerome Coleman seeks to make Juneteenth a national holiday
Juneteenth, or June 19th, is the day in 1865 when enslaved black people in Galveston, Texas, were informed by Union troops that they were free--901 days after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed! "I want to make people aware that our independence day was June 19th, 1865, not July 4th, 1776," Coleman said.