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

Philadelphia, PA / USA – June 22 2019: Juneteenth Parade Philadelphia at Malcom X Park African American Independence Day. (Shutterstock) By Kris Manjapra, The Conversation 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 […]