Wednesday marks Juneteenth, or June 19th, a Federal holiday known as Freedom Day or Black Independence Day.
In Texas, the holiday is called Emancipation Day, as Union General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation on June 19, 1865.
This occurred about a month after the final Confederate surrender of the Civil War.
This is the fourth year Juneteenth is an official holiday, with President Joe Biden signing the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in 2021.
The Ravens got into the holiday spirit with a couple of different posts on their official social media accounts.
Happy Juneteenth! pic.twitter.com/3KN1f6NJ7d
— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) June 19, 2024
The first is a graphic of Ravens players standing before the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. monument in Washington, D.C.
The players are in front of a famous King quote which resides on the north wall of the monument:
“We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs ‘down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream. ‘”
The quote is from Montgomery, Alabama, December 5, 1955 and the graphic fittingly portrays water falling down in force.
The second post re-posts what the Ravens published last year on Juneteenth, a Baltimore cityscape graphic.
The Baltimore skyline provides the backdrop, with the words “Juneteenth, celebrate freedom” providing the main focus.
A small Ravens logo resides above the three words.
Celebrate freedom #Juneteenth pic.twitter.com/9rsz6oHfLQ
— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) June 19, 2024
Kudos to the Ravens for creating these graphics and publishing them.
