A beautiful sea of black that white privilege cannot ignore
The Milwaukee community gathered on June 19 to celebrate Juneteenth Day for the 46th consecutive year. The holiday commemorates the abolition of slavery in the United States, resulting from the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. The observance comes from the last American territory in Texas to relinquish its system of defining people of color as property. News of the Presidential order did not reach the community of Galveston until 1865, over two and a half years later, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived on June 19 with his troops to force the locals to comply with the federal directive. “That...
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