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Lot of people miss that you deal with in the book is that if it had not been for the union army coming in and posting it and protecting those enslaved, slavery would have continued which is, in many ways, 100 years later with the civil rights movement asking for federal intervention, even now as many of us are dealing with those issues, it has always been a battle of the union or the federal government protecting people against states rights in a contemporary setting, as we celebrate juneteenth day, talk about the policies that we still must extract from that that are relevant today about prot...

Aaron Williams said Juneteenth is a celebration of progress.

Effley Howell Sr. shared the history of Juneteenth Day and other aspects of Black heritage in a program at the Wilkes Heritage Museum on Saturday.

Take a moment to understand the history of the Juneteenth Day of Observance as the U.S. celebrates it for the second time.

It is celebrated on the anniversary of the order, issued by Major General Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865, proclaiming freedom for slaves in Texas. Juneteenth originated in Galveston and has been observed annually in various parts of the United States. ���� Juneteenth 2023 Date, History and Significance: Everything To Know About the Day That Marks the End of Slavery in the United States.