Juneteenth and the unfinished work of racial justice
In Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger brought freedom from abstraction into reality for enslaved Africans in the District of Texas, as was already the case elsewhere in the country.
F. Willis Johnson June 10, 2024
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