Honoring Juneteenth By Asserting the Freedom Read
On June 19, 1865, Union troops delivered the news to enslaved people
in Galveston, TX, that they were free. But this "news"
wasn't exactly new. President Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation officially conferred their freedom on January 1, 1863,
rein…
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