Juneteenth Trivia
Send in the Right Answers by June 19, and Get a Prize!
In honor of Juneteenth, the day of emancipation for African Americans in the United States, there will be no speaker series meeting. We will resume next month for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Mental Health Awareness Month.
Instead, we invite you to take part in our Juneteenth Trivia Questions! The first individuals to answer correctly and send their responses to gro.atsocartnociman@ofni by June 19, 2025, may receive a prize!
The Questions are:
- What happened on June 19, 1865?
- What Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution did Congress finally propose?
- Which federal holiday was adopted in 1983, before Juneteenth?
- What other names has this holiday been called?
- On September 22, 1862, which President announced that the Emancipation Proclamation would go into effect on January 1, 1863 (promising freedom to enslaved people in all of the rebellious parts of Southern states of the Confederacy including Texas)?
- Juneteenth marked the end of which war?
- Large celebrations of emancipation are often called what in which enslaved people were freed?
- Who was the Major General who issued General Order No. 3 formally informing Texas residents that slavery had ended?
- Which laws enforced racial segregation in the American South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement
in the 1950s? - On June 17, 2021, which President signed the bill that made Juneteenth the eleventh American federal holiday?
