Juneteenth's history serves as a warning of white backlash

6/17/2020 By | Staff

Juneteenth—June 19, 1865— marks the day when the last collective of enslaved people heard the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, TX, a full two years after Abraham Lincoln delivered it.

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