20 Jun 2025 8:26 am
How do we know its not short for June Thirteenth - National Bedford Forest Day?Vegas » 19 Jun 2025, 10:43 am » wrote: ↑ Juneteenth is short for June Nineteenth. Since 2021, it's been a U.S. holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It specifically marks June 19, 1865, the day that Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced to enslaved African Americans that they were free...two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued by Lincoln on January 1, 1863.
I read quite a bit about the civil war. It's history is very much relevant today. I voted the first yes because people forget the obvious-that about 600k white people died in a very bloody and gory manner to free the slaves.