The Real History of Juneteenth and the Reason It’s a Federal Holiday
“Freedom Day” Has Nothing to do With Freedom
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7 min readJun 9, 2024
The premise for the Juneteenth holiday is to celebrate the date enslaved people in Texas found out they were free. On June 19, 1865, seventy-one days after the Civil War ended, Major General Gordon Granger rolled into Galveston, TX, with his army and announced that slavery…
