President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. It freed all slaves in the Southern States. But Union soldiers took two-and-a-half years to inform Galveston, Texas, of the Proclamation. Blacks enslaved there finally heard the news of their freedom on June 19, 1865. Juneteenth commemorates this unconscionable delay. Yet that delay is not nearly as unconscionable as the 140… Read more.
Juneteenth a Holiday, Finally!
Saturday, June 19, 2021 at 7:23 AM