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Martin Luther King Jr s estate and HarperCollins reach publishing rights deal
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This Middle Georgia Woman Led The Montgomery Bus Boycott That Helped Propel MLK s Career
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Celebrating Juneteenth
Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, will be celebrated locally in various ways through this weekend.
The city of Gainesville has sponsored what it billed as Journey to Juneteenth with programs all month long and special events leading up to the holiday on June 19. Event organizers say Journey to Juneteenth aims to honor the past and celebrate the present through community and connection.
Juneteenth, which is observed on June 19 each year, is the oldest known celebration to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger reached Galveston, Texas, with the news that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were now free. Emancipation Day commemorates the end of slavery in Florida when on May 20, 1865, 11 days after the Civil War ended, Union General Edward M. McCook read the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee. Emancipation Day and Juneteenth took place two and a half years
Had she lived to old age, Anne Frank would be celebrating her 92nd birthday on June 12. But of course, she died in wretched conditions in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, when she was 15. Otto, her father, was the family’s only survivor. After the war, he published the diary that Anne kept while they were in hiding between 1942 and 1944. The story behind it and the quality of her writing are extraordinary, and it’s been a staple in American schools for decades. But how much does it really teach kids about the Holocaust?
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