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Angela Decker/JPR NewsThe festival was held to celebrate America's newest national holiday. Juneteenth marks June 19th, 1865, when enslaved African-Americans in Texas got news — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued — that they were free. -
The yes vote comes a day after the Senate unanimously moved to recognize June 19 as a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States.
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House Bill 2168 will officially recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday in Oregon beginning June 19, 2022. -
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It's a grim anniversary, but certainly one worth noting: the arrival of African slaves in Virginia in August, 1619. So 400 years since the door opened…
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It is one of the most significant dates in American history: June 19, 1865. That is the day that Union troops arriving in South Texas informed the…
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Racism is a hot topic in our times (as if it ever really cooled down). And a historical perspective helps us better understand the very concept of race.…
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Abraham Lincoln made his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but the Civil War and slavery dragged on for two more years. It was not until June 19, 1865,…
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We shudder to think that our country was once home to the practice of slavery, and that we fought a civil war over it. And we're not quite done…
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Maybe we're finally getting away from the idea of different races, but in no great hurry. Remember, people once referred to "the Jewish race," among other…
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We all know the story of pre-Civil War America: there were slave states and free states.But the line between them got a lot blurrier in the newer…
