Across
- 1. Traditional color of drinks and food during Juneteenth
- 4. President who signed the Emancipation Proclamation
- 8. Juneteenth falls on this day in June
- 9. The Amendment to the constitution the officially abolished
- 11. Union general who read federal orders to inform enslaved African Americans of their freedom in 1865
- 12. “Grandmother of Juneteenth” Lee
Down
- 2. Celebrating Juneteenth honors this
- 3. Holiday also called Emancipation Day and Freedom Day
- 5. “On Juneteenth" author Gordon-Reed
- 6. President who signed Juneteenth into law as a federal holiday
- 7. First state to designate Juneteenth as a holiday
- 10. “Juneteenth” novelist Ellison