Juneteenth

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• 6/19/2022
  

  "Oh, We Knowed What Was Goin’ On": The Myths (and Lies) of Juneteenth

  by Clyde W. Ford

  After the myths of Juneteenth are stripped away, the day symbolizes the incompleteness of the promise of emancipation. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/25/2021
  

  The Emancipation Proclamation did not End Slavery. Here’s what Did

  by Clarence Lusane

  Chattel slavery was ended by the enactment of the 13th Amendment. Whatever the merits of recognizing the Juneteenth holiday, it commemorates the specific emancipation of enslaved Texans, and not national abolition. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/18/2021
  

  The Truth About Black Freedom

  by Daina Ramey Berry

  Observing Juneteenth shouldn't be limited to commemorating a grant of freedom by the government; the deeper history of emancipation is of Black Americans demanding and pursuing freedom for themselves. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/18/2021
  

  What the Push to Celebrate Juneteenth Conceals

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  "It is impossible to celebrate Juneteenth and simultaneously deny the teaching of America’s foundational legacy."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/18/2021
  

  Event: History Matters with Annette Gordon-Reed, Historian & Author, “On Juneteenth” (Friday, June 18)

  Jonathan Capehart will host a discussion with Annette Gordon-Reed of her new book "On Juneteenth" on Friday at 12:00 eastern. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/14/2021
  

  How Deep Is America’s Reckoning with Racism? (Review Essay)

  by Kerri Greenidge

  "Juneteenth has gained recent popular attention after white Americans responded to last summer’s mass protest movement in the most American way possible—through token gestures of “historical reckoning” rather than actual atonement through, say, restoration of Section 4b of the 1965 Voting Rights Act."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/21/2021
  

  The Historian Annette Gordon-Reed Gets Personal in ‘On Juneteenth’

  "In 'On Juneteenth' Annette Gordon-Reed leads by example, revisiting her own experiences, questioning her own assumptions — and showing that historical understanding is a process, not an end point."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/19/2020
  

  Black Joy—Not Corporate Acknowledgment—Is the Heart of Juneteenth

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Companies and state governments are finally recognizing Emancipation Day as an official holiday, but black Americans have honored its significance all along.

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• SOURCE: Current Affairs
  6/19/2020
  

  Why Juneteenth Matters

  by Robert Greene II

  The contribution of Juneteenth by Black Texans to the broader Black American pantheon of celebrations and holidays should be cherished, just like that of the first Decoration Day held by Black South Carolinians in 1865.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/18/2020
  

  Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names

  by Martha S. Jones

  Among black women, names passed down represent the preservation of the memory and history of struggles for freedom. The author's name reflects those struggles at the intimate scale of family.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/19/2020
  

  Growing Up with Juneteenth

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  "I... did not know, as a child, how intensely African-Americans had fought to keep alive the memory of Juneteenth—to commemorate our ancestors’ struggles and their hopes, and to link them to our own."

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• SOURCE: Cabrini University
  6/19/2020
  

  Pacing the Struggle for Black Equality

  by Darryl C. Mace and Joseph R. Fitzgerald

  Black people continue to remind this nation that unless they are free, no one is free. Black liberation cannot be denied.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/13/2020
  

  Make Juneteenth a National Holiday Now

  by Peniel Joseph

  Making a national holiday to honor the emancipation of enslaved people would help fulfill a "generational opportunity" to finally build the Beloved Community Martin Luther King Jr.  sought in his own lifetime.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/19/19
  

  GU272 Memory Project Launches on Juneteenth

  In addition to documents, photographs and the indexed genealogies of thousands of descendants, the project includes recorded interviews with dozens of living descendants.

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• SOURCE: The American Historian
  06/17/2019
  

  Juneteenth and Beyond: African American Emancipations Celebrations Since 1808

  by Wilma King

  June Nineteenth is widely celebrated for the abolition of slavery in Texas and the Confederate States in general. 

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• 6/19/18
  

  Juneteenth

  What it is and why it's celebrated.

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• 6/17/18
  

  This Juneteenth Let’s Remember Stories Like This One

  by Anna-Lisa Cox

  It shows that slavery was not the only injustice affecting African Americans before the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: Star Telegram
  6-15-17
  

  Juneteenth celebrations unite community with parade, gatherings

  Every June 19 in Texas, communities celebrate with prayer, family gatherings and a strong dose of history. That was the day in 1865 that a union general arrived in Galveston with an order informing Texas that all slaves were freed.

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• 6-17-16
  

  It’s Time to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday

  by Karl Jacoby

  This was the day – June 19, 1865 – in 1865 when slaves in Texas finally were freed.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-19-15
  

  Juneteenth Is for Everyone

  by Kenneth C. Davis

  150 years after its birth, Juneteenth remains largely unacknowledged on America’s national calendar. Many Americans are unaware of its existence, or its roots.