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Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

  • Written by Kris Manjapra, Professor of History, Tufts University
imageEmancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900, held in 'East Woods' on East 24th St. in Austin, Texas.Austin History Center

The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black...

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