Florida Emancipation Day
Florida Emancipation Day is held on May 20. This event in the second decade of the month May is annual. 
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Emancipation was proclaimed in Tallahassee on May 20, 1865, 11 days after the end of the Civil War, and two years after the Proclamation first issued by President Abraham Lincoln freed those enslaved in Southern states. For this reason, Emancipation Day is traditionally celebrated on May 20 in Florida.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Pretos Veljos Festival in Brazil on May 13 (or Preto Velho, anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the country);
Afro-Colombian Day in Colombia on May 21
Abolition Day in Martinique on May 22
Slavery Abolition Day on May 27 (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin);
Abolition Day on June 10 (French Guiana);
Emancipation Day in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica on August 1 (Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time);
Emancipation Day in Grenada on August 5 (on the first monday of august);
Emancipation Day in Anguilla, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands on August 5 (celebrated on the first Monday of August. Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time)