FOX 7 Discussion: Remembering Austin’s Black history

By Rebecca Thomas

Published June 19, 2020 8:25pm CDT

FOX 7 Discussions

FOX 7 Discussion: Remembering Austin’s Black history

Kymberly Keeton, an African-American community archivist at the Austin History Center, talks with Rebecca Thomas about the importance and history of Juneteenth in Austin.

AUSTIN, Texas - 155 years ago today, Union troops arrived in Galveston, finally freeing enslaved people in Texas, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect.

Since then, the celebration of Juneteenth has evolved in the Lone Star State.

Kymberly Keeton, an African-American community archivist at the Austin History Center, talks with Rebecca Thomas about the importance and history of Juneteenth in Austin.