06-20-2020, 03:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2020, 03:43 AM by GenesisNemesis.)
Juneteenth
Juneteenth
No one's gonna mention Juneteenth? OK I will. Happy Juneteenth!
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/19/880754393...oclamation
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/19/880754393...oclamation
Quote: Juneteenth is getting unusually widespread attention this year, as Americans protest police brutality and racism.
But some Americans have, for years, celebrated it as the day that marks our ancestors' emancipation.
June 19, 1865, was the day U.S. Army troops landed in Galveston, Texas. It was the aftermath of the Civil War. The troops informed some of the last enslaved Americans that they were forever free. They enforced President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which had taken effect on Jan. 1, 1863.
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