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Juneteenth commemorates the date in 1865 when the victorious Union Army brought news of the two-and-a-half-year-old Emancipation Proclamation to Texas, last bastion of the Confederacy - National Review
Juneteenth commemorates the date in 1865 when the victorious Union Army brought news of the two-and-a-half-year-old Emancipation Proclamation to Texas, last bastion of the Confederacy. It did not mark the end of American...
Juneteenth in Texas - American Visions
The American African celebration of the end of the lash of slavery called Juneteenth is having a revival in Texas and other parts of the US. The freedom festivals planned for San Antonio, TX and Houston, TX for 1997 will feature art, films, parades, food, dancing, concerts, carnivals, and books.
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On June 19, 1865 -- 10 weeks after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox -- Union General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas, and drove the last nail into slavery's coffin, proclaiming: "The people of Texas are informed all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights of property between masters and slaves." Granger's proclamation ignited a chain of spontaneous, freedom celebrations that rippled across the state and spread throughout the Southwest.

The anniversary of freedom was not to be forgotten by people who had spent their entire lives in bondage -- people for whom the lash had been a common punishment, but whose sting had been ephemeral compared with the pain of family separations, the indignity of compelled deference, the thought that only the grave would bring emancipation. So in the ensuing years, the joyous events of June 19, 1865, were reenacted, becoming codified as Juneteenth celebrations. Best Sunday dress, American flags, thankful prayer, music, baseball games and massive quantities of food characterized these African-American gatherings.
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More companies are giving employees off for Juneteenth.
This year'sJuneteenth holiday, which is on Friday,may be the most celebrated in decades.

Amid the backdrop of more thantwo weeks of nationwide protestsagainst police brutality and racism after the death of George Floyd, major companies and organizations have rushedto recognize Juneteenth as a holiday for their employees or in some fashion. The move has been met as a welcome recognition that Black history is a sharedAmerican history but also with a bit of concern that it be more than a short-lived gesture.
Museum of the African Diaspora to Host Free Family Day - Entertainment Close-up
The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) showcases the history, art and the cultural richness that resulted from the dispersal of Africans throughout the world with engaging exhibitions, education and public programs.
On Juneteenth, Let's Celebrate the Atlases of Abolition - The Objective Standard
Abraham Lincoln's 1862 Emancipation Proclamation declared southern slaves free, but enforcement depended on the advancing Union army. Thus, it was that Union General Gordon Granger again declared the end of slavery in...
Visible Once Again - Newsweek
Next month Random House will publish what it is calling Ralph Ellison's second novel, "Juneteenth," and because it has Ellison's name on it, it is a bona fide literary event: the first novel-length fiction by one of our greatest writers in 47 years. But does this truncated, simplified work do justice to Ellison's sprawling, complicated vision? As Callahan explains in his fine introduction, Ellison planned a saga, a multivolume edifice of Faulknerian proportion. He worked on it until he died at the age of 80. What he left behind amounted to several thousand pages of overlapping drafts and stories only tangentially related to the main narrative. What was finished, or at least existed in publishable form, was the core of the saga, a manuscript called "Juneteenth." That's what Random House is publishing.

"And ain't I a woman?" Sojourner Truth made equality her life's quest - Success
Born into slavery almost 60 years before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Sojourner Truth found her way to freedom when she was about 30 years old. Tall, imposing, roughly eloquent yet illiterate, Truth became a much-sought-after speaker for the abolitionist and women's movements during the mid-19th century. Putting her formidable speaking skills and faith to work, she was determined not to adhere to any party line, interest group or outlook. For her, African-Americans and women didn't just deserve equal rights--they had earned them.
Civil War Amendments - Cobblestone
The Civil War was fought to preserve the Union, but it also became a war about the future of slavery. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed all the slaves in the rebellious states, but once the war was over in 1865, something more was needed. Many people felt that the former slaves could be protected by passing laws. But laws can be changed, repealed, or even declared unconstitutional. So, on December 6,1865, the 13th Amendment officially abolished slavery. So, Congress passed the 14th Amendment, which made all persons born or naturalized in the United States citizens. So, a third post-Civil War amendment was added to the Constitution on February 3,1870. The 15th Amendment, gave all men 21 and older, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, the right to vote. (Women, both black and white, would not get the vote until 1920.)
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Freedom: as we approach the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, 11 thoughtful voices explain why it still matters to all of us At the height of the Civil War, on January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued an executive order that still echoes today. He declared "that all persons held as slaves" in Rebel states "are, and henceforward shall be free." It was a tactical move to bolster the Union cause--and yet so much more. Although the government had no power to enforce the decree, and abolishing slavery was not Lincoln's apparent goal, the Emancipation Proclamation established a new moral foundation for the country. The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all the slaves, nor did it abrogate the state laws that created slavery. Only the 13th Amendment accomplished these things. Emancipation was a long historical process, not a single moment. But more than any other event, the proclamation sealed the fate of slavery. It made protecting the freedom of the slaves an obligation of the Union Army, guaranteeing that Union victory would mean the end of slavery. It also marked a transformation in Lincoln's own outlook. Until January 1, 1863, he had insisted that monetary compensation to the former owners, and efforts to "colonize" former slaves outside the United States, should accompany emancipation. The proclamation made no mention of compensation or colonization. For the first time, it welcomed black men into the Union Army, allowing them to stake a claim to citizenship in the postwar nation. Overall, the proclamation was critical to changing the nature of the Civil War, and of American society itself.
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Eric Foner, Maya Angelou, Benjamin Todd Jealous, Darlene Clark Hine, Anthony G. Brown, Devil Patrick, Patrick Buchanan, Barbara Krauthamer and Deborah Willis, Bill Cosby, John Lewis
Key Events - All About History
Key Events of the Civil War providing context for the Emancipation Proclamation and the impacts on African Americans.
Lincoln's Decision - Cobblestone With a firm hand, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. In fact, Lincoln stated, "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper." Shortly after Lincoln won election in 1860 as the 16th U.S. president, seven Southern states seceded from the Union, forming the Confederate States of America. Other states soon joined them. These Southern states believed that the federal government should not interfere or have authority in issues that were better decided by individual states. These states' rights supporters viewed the future of slavery as one such issue. As the new leader of an ideologically divided nation, Lincoln knew that he would need to conduct himself with patience and firmness. He tried to be clear that his main objective was to keep the United States united. Though he wished "that all men everywhere might be free," bringing an end to slavery was not his primary concern. From 1861 to 1862 teh Union had lost more battles than victories. We waited for a Northern Victory to give the announcement more impact. On September 22, Lincoln released his Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation stated that unless the Confederacy surrendered, "all slaves in states or districts in rebellion against the United States on January 1, 1863, will be thenceforth and forever free." It was not a law but a military order made by the army's commander in chief to cripple the enemy's economy. On January 1, 1863, abolitionists and freed slaves celebrated the historic change in America. When the celebration was over, however, they realized that the proclamation had not ended all slavery. Slaves in states that had not seceded from the Union were not freed, nor were slaves in places already defeated by the Union army.

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Black & American: what does it mean?
By visiting Europe the writer walks through how he came to the understanding what an American is and what being Black is. He came to recognize and value the achievements of black Americans - the unique cultural contribution we have made to this country. Murray reminded me of how, in the face of so much misery, my ancestors had demonstrated a remarkable resourcefulness. "Resourceful" means being "capable of devising ways and means" - in a sense, being able to create a way where none exists. Making one's way against the odds is a quintessentially American idea, and America's blacks are a quintessentially American people. Best of all, this resourcefulness was not merely an idea and a history - it had been turned into a celebration. That celebration is called jazz. That yearning for more found its way into music. The black American creators of jazz took existing musical forms and turned them inside out to make something entirely new. Jazz, simply put, was black resourcefulness set to music: both the product of and a metaphor for the black American experience.
Freedom bound: a simple act--having one's name recorded in a ledger known as the Book of Negroes--promised freedom to Black Loyalists in 1783 and, for some, allowed passage to Canada. But was Canada the promised land? - The Beaver Exploring Canada's Histo It is called the Book of Negroes. The handwritten ledger runs to about 150 pages. It offers volumes of information about the lives of black people living more than two centuries ago. In this way, the Book of Negroes gives precise details about when and where freedom seekers managed to rip themselves free of American slavery. As a research tool it offers historians and genealogists the opportunity to trace and correlate people backward and forward in time in other documents, such as ship manifests, slave ledgers, and census and tax records. Sadly, however, the Book of Negroes has been largely forgotten in Canada. And that is a shame. Dating back to an era when people of African heritage were mostly excluded from official documents and records, the Book of Negroes offers an intimate and unsettling portrait of the origins of the Black Loyalists in Canada. Compiled in 1783 by officers of the British military at the tail end of the American Revolutionary War, the Book of Negroes was the first massive public record of blacks in North America. Indeed, what makes the Book of Negroes so fascinating are the stories of where its people came from and how it came to be that they fled to Nova Scotia and other British colonies.
Learning from ancestral bones: New York's exhumed African past
Burial artifacts from 390 skeletons and other excavated items found in an 18th century gravesite in New York City, the site of the oldest and largest group of skeletal remains of black people ever found in this nation. Six year project to data gathering, DNA analysis, gather any other data and reburial with marker at the old and new sites.
San Antonio Sites - Black Enterprise
San Antonio may never forget the Alamo, but African Americans have also left an indelible stamp on this Texas city. In fact, blacks have been in San Antonio since the early 1500s, when Africans were brought to the area by the Spaniards. Many of them were freed by the late 1700s and began making inroads into San Antonio's society. Points out key historical sites and facts relating to achievements of African Americans.

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Frederick Douglass: SLAVE TO STATESMAN: Discover the remarkable rise of an agitator, reformer, orator, writer and artist.
Biography of Frederick Bailey "Fredrick Douglas" was most likely born in February 1818 (although there are no records to prove the exact date) in his grandmother's slave cabin in Talbot County, Maryland. He was probably mixed race: African, Native...
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin: Her novel helped to end slavery and proved that Lincoln was right when he said, "Whoever can change public opinion can change the government.".
No book in American history molded public opinion more powerfully than Uncle Tom's Cabin. Published in 1852, it set sales records for American fiction. An international sensation, it was soon translated into many languages. The Boston preacher Theodore Parker declared that it was "more an event than a book, and has excited more attention than any book since the invention of printing." Henry James noted that Stowe's novel was, "for an immense number of people, much less a book than a state of vision, of feeling and of consciousness in which they didn't sit and read and appraise and pass the time, but walked and talked and laughed and cried."
THE SHRUG THAT MADE HISTORY
Maj. Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler's response to Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory and James Townsend on May 23 1861 rowed across the James River in Virginia and claimed asylum in a Union-held citadel. When Maj. John Baytop Cary of the 115tharrived as an agent for Colonel Mallory for retrieving the fugitive slaves. Butler refused it was part of the greater story of how the 13th Amendment and eventual emancipation was being determined at the time.
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Fort Monroe, Va., a fishhook-shaped spit of land near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, had been a military post since the time of the first Jamestown settlers. This spot where the slaves took refuge was also, by remarkable coincidence, the spot where slavery first took root, one summer day in 1619, when a Dutch ship landed with some 20 African captives for the fledgling Virginia Colony.

Two and half centuries later, in the first spring of the Civil War, Fort Monroe was a lonely Union redoubt in the heart of newly Confederate territory. Its defenders stood on constant guard. Frigates and armed steamers crowded the nearby waters known as Hampton Roads, one of the world's great natural harbors. Perspiring squads of soldiers hauled giant columbiad cannons from the fort's wharf up to its stone parapets. Yet history would come to Fort Monroe not amid the thunder of guns and the clash of fleets, but stealthily, under cover of darkness, in a stolen boat.

Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory and James Townsend were field hands who -- like hundreds of other local slaves -- had been pressed into service by the Confederates, compelled to build an artillery emplacement amid the dunes across the harbor. They labored beneath the banner of the 115th Virginia Militia, a blue flag bearing a motto in golden letters: ''Give me liberty or give me death.''
WHERE FREEDOM RANG: For more than 50 years the town of Nicodemus, Kansas, beat the odds and its harsh surroundings to provide opportunity for former slaves and their descendants.
By the late 1870s the black population of the Smith was dismayed. The Civil War and the formal abolition of slavery with passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865 had not brought the equality or improved living conditions...
The blue and the gray: as the Civil War raged south of the border, hundreds of Canadians got involved--on both sides of the conflict

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Changing Lincoln's Mind: In the Civil War, pioneering African Americans met with the president and altered the course of U.S. history.
A former black slave Robert Smalls became well-known after he took command of the Confederate steamer the CSS Planter out of Charleston Harbor.
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Other Black Heroes of the Civil War - ALEXANDER AUGUSTA first Black professor of medicine served as black medic in Civil War. SUSIE KING TAYLOR - she joined one of the Union Army's first Black regiments, serving as a nurse, cook and launderer, and teaching formerly enslaved soldiers to read. After the war, she opened a school for freedmen's children. ABRAHAM GALLOWAY - When war broke out, he served as a spymaster, running networks in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. In 1868, he won a North Carolina State Senate seat. CHRISTIAN FLEETWOOD - founded one of the nation's first African American newspapers, in Baltimore, before joining the Union Army in 1863. He distinguished himself particularly in the Battle of Chaffin's Farm, Virginia, in September 1864, where his courage earned him a Medal of Honor-one of just 25 awarded to Black soldiers in the Civil War. After Appomattox, Fleetwood served in the War Department.

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