Across the National Mall in Washington, DC, the National Museum of African American History and Culture rises with a striking bronze-colored exterior. This powerful landmark reflects the story of Juneteenth, a holiday marking June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and finally announced freedom for more than 250,000 enslaved people—more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect.
Happy Juneteenth!
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
A house of grand scale(s)
-
Mam Tor, Derbyshire, England
-
Grab onto the handlebars, kid
-
Ansel Adams birthday
-
World Theater Day
-
Collared aracari in Costa Rica
-
Pi Day
-
Ingenuity in action on the Santa Monica Pier
-
Least chipmunk, Kootenai National Forest, Montana
-
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day
-
Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico
-
Fashion models of the avian world
-
Who s there? The largest owl in the world
-
Black History Month
-
Golling Waterfall, Salzburg, Austria
-
Ahh-tumn
-
International Day of Human Space Flight
-
Saint Nicholas Day in Verbier, Switzerland
-
A river on the tundra
-
Sunrise at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
-
Spotted Lake emerges
-
International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend
-
Forward-thinking women of history
-
Manhattan
-
Under Parisian skies
-
The town of Pienza in Tuscany, Italy
-
Park of the Monsters, Bomarzo, Italy
-
St. Michaels Mount in Marazion, Cornwall, England
-
Happy Valentines Day!
-
Memorial Day
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

