[This post originally appeared here on June 19, 2010.] “Emancipation” by Thomas Nast. Ohio State University. Juneteenth has come again, and (quite rightly) the Galveston County Daily News, the paper that first published General Granger’s order that forms the basis for the holiday, has again called for the day to be recognized as a national […]
Juneteenth, History and Tradition
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