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Juneteenth - A Celebration of Freedom

Do you know what Juneteenth is? 

For starters, it was yesterday. 

The term “Juneteenth” refers to June 19, 1865, when Major-General Gordon Granger informed the people of Galveston, Texas, that slavery had been abolished.

Mind you, this was more thantwo years after Abraham Lincoln signed the executive order of emancipation on January 1, 1863.

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

On this day in 1865, two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, word finally reached the people of Galveston, Texas that the Civil War was over. All enslaved men, women and children were now free.

HAPPY JUNETEENTH!

The first pic is pre-emancipation and the reat are from the early celebrations of Emancipation Day, as it was known then. Live the ladies in the carriage…

Source(s):

http://houstorian.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/juneteenth/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

http://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/june-19-2010-juneteenth-day/

http://blogs.houstonlibrary.org/?p=68

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