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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
Few Union soldiers were there to communicate or enforce Lincoln’s order. Confederate slaveholders did not agree with it.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
They did not want to lose the labor they got for free.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
So, no one told the enslaved people -- until June 19, when a Union general and a few thousand soldiers arrived to take control of the area.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
The general quickly read an announcement. He informed the people that the Union had won the Civil War and that “all slaves are free.”
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
Many formerly enslaved people immediately began to celebrate. As soon as they could, some left Texas and joined family members in other states.
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Some remained and built new lives. They remembered June 19 in the years that followed.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
In time, their children and grandchildren celebrated it as a holiday, too.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
Betty Anderson, who is a descendant of enslaved people, spoke to The Federalist magazine about her Juneteenth traditions.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
She said the day includes stories about people who continued to fight for equal rights because “freedom from slavery did not bring freedom for the African-American.”
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. made a similar point in the online magazine The Root
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
He said one of the important things about Juneteenth is that it is a positive powerful celebration, even in the face of discrimination.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
For example, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Texas officials refused to permit black people to gather in public spaces.
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So, black families and friends celebrated Juneteenth near rivers and lakes, Gates said.
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In time, they bought their own parks where they could celebrate.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
history. Texas became the first state to declare the day an official state holiday in 1980.
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In June 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden declared Juneteenth as the country’s newest national holiday.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
Biden said it was a day to “remember the moral stain and terrible toll of slavery on our country.”
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
He added, “But it is a day that also reminds us of our incredible capacity to heal, hope, and emerge from our darkest moments with purpose and
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resolve.” Last year, at least 28 American states and the city government of Washington, D.C.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
recognized Juneteenth as a public holiday, a Pew Research Center study said
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
On the history of Juneteenth the National Museum of African American History Culture wrote that although the event remains largely unknown to most Americans, it is
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considered the “country’s second independence day” by Black Americans.
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“The historical legacy of Juneteenth shows the value of never giving up hope in uncertain times,” it said. I’m Caty Weaver.
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