Juneteenth has long gone through pretty a transformation not too long ago. Also acknowledged as Freedom Day or Black Independence Working day, Juneteenth is the bittersweet commemoration of June 19, 1865, when phrase of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation achieved the deepest sections of the fallen Confederacy — virtually two years following […]
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As our country’s 2nd independence working day, Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas to announce that just about 300,000 enslaved black people today ended up free. This working day in historical past became identified as “Juneteenth” and is now regarded as a […]