{"id":3651,"date":"2023-06-19T13:10:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:10:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:10:20","slug":"juneteenth-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3651","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today is considered the \u201clongest running African-American holiday\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s been called \u201cAmerica\u2019s second Independence Day.\u201d  June 19th or \u201cJuneteenth\u201d is an important day in African American history. Juneteenth, often called \u201cFreedom Day,\u201d is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 19th, 1865 Union soldiers, led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, arrived in Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that all slaves were free. If you\u2019re paying attention, you\u2019ll note that 1865 was 2\u00bd years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, that became official on January 1, 1863. Obviously, the Emancipation Proclamation had very little impact on Texas. One reason is that there was a minimal number of Union troops available to enforce the new executive order in Texas \u2014 and \u2014 there were large crops that needed labor to harvest them. From the time Gen. Lee surrendered, in April 1865, until Gen. Granger\u2019s regiment arrived with forces strong enough to overcome the resistance of white slave owners, 2\u00bd years had passed\u2026.. it took 2\u00bd years after the Emancipation Proclamation for all<\/em> slaves to finally be free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 1, 1980, Juneteenth became an official state holiday in Texas through the efforts of Al Edwards, an African American state legislator. The successful passage of the bill marked Juneteenth as the first emancipation celebration granted official state recognition. Edwards has since sought to spread the observance of Juneteenth across the nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On June 15, 2021, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved the bill that makes Juneteenth a legal public holiday. On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed into law Senate Bill 475 (S. 475) making \u201cJuneteenth\u201d a federal<\/em> holiday.
There is a Juneteenth Flag of Freedom \u2014 it\u2019s half red and half blue with a star in the middle. Each year a Juneteenth Flag raising ceremony in held in Galveston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the freedom of the slaves in the United States. Some people call it Emancipation Day or Freedom Day. It was a cause of celebration and jubilation in 1865 \u2014 should still be today.
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Today is considered the \u201clongest running African-American holiday\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s been called \u201cAmerica\u2019s second Independence Day.\u201d  June 19th or \u201cJuneteenth\u201d is an important day in African American history. Juneteenth, often called \u201cFreedom Day,\u201d is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}