Tag: Emancipation Day
Juneteenth Celebrates Just One of the United States’ 20 Emancipation Days
By Kris Manjapra, Tufts University
The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the...
PHOTOS: Joyful Juneteenth marchers brave D.C rain as America enters a civil rights summer
David Martosko
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California State Capitol Goes Black … Red and Green to Mark Juneteenth
Aldon Thomas Stiles | California Black Media
As California goes, so does the nation.
You’ve probably heard that cliché many times before. It certainly rings true...