Equality
Juneteenth: Commemorating Freedom Through the Prism of History and Perspectives
Introduction: Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19th, marks an auspicious day in American history. On this day in 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and declared that all slaves were free. This occurred over two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which had officially outlawed slavery in Confederate Read more…
