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Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom

  • Written by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
imageJoshua Houston leads a Juneteenth Parade in Huntsville, Texas, in a photo circa 1900.Sam Houston Memorial Museum and Republic of Texas Presidential Library

The news was startling.

On June 19, 1865, two months after the U.S. Civil War ended, Union Gen. Gordon Granger walked onto the balcony at Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and announced to the...

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