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Share and reflect on these powerful, inspiring Juneteenth quotes and messages from Black politicians, activists, authors, and artists for the June 19 holiday.
Although the Emancipation Proclamation declared that all enslaved people should be free in 1863, there were still enslaved people in many states awaiting their freedom. On June 19, 1865, Texas ...
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
Over the decades, Juneteenth has also been called Freedom Day, Emancipation Day, Black Fourth of July and second Independence Day among others. “Because 1776, Fourth of July, where we’re ...
In this narrative, Washington was a proto-abolitionist who, having added the freedom of his slaves to the freedom from British slavery he had won for the nation, would be mobilized to serve the antislavery cause. [310] An alternative narrative more in line with proslavery sentiments embraced rather than excised Washington's ownership of slaves.
Andrew Johnson himself attended a Freedom Day celebration organized by Sam Johnson in 1871. [ 6 ] [ 39 ] For the many decades between emancipation and desegregation , the annual August 8 picnic was the only day of the year that blacks were allowed to be in Knoxville 's Chilhowee Park . [ 37 ]
Quock Walker, also known as Kwaku or Quork Walker (c. 1753 – ?), was an enslaved American who sued for and won his freedom suit case in June 1781. The court cited language in the 1780 Constitution of Massachusetts that declared, "All men are born free and equal".
President Joe Biden & Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated Juneteenth (aka Jubilee Day, Freedom Day or Emancipation Day) with a star-studded event.