Celebrating Juneteenth: Supporting Equality for Black People
June 19th, 1865 is the day that slaves in Galveston, Texas found out that they were officially free. Surprisingly, emancipation had occurred two-and-a-half years earlier; however, the American Civil War only ended on April 9th of 1865. Since there were few union soldiers in Texas to enforce the newly won freedom, it took another two …
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