The history and significance of Juneteenth

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. LiveNOW from FOX host, Jeane Franseen spoke to Marvin Chiles, Asst. Professsor of African American History at Old Dominion University on the significance of the federal holiday.