Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his ...
On June 19, 1865, Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger stepped onto a balcony in Galveston, Tex. — two months after the Civil War had ended — and announced that more than 250,000 enslaved people in ...
Kris Manjapra does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Kris Manjapra is a professor of history at Tufts University. Visit his website www.historiesofresistance.com, or follow him on Twitter @histresist. When we hear “emancipation” we think “Juneteenth” — ...
This story was originally published by The Conversation and is republished here by permission. The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard ...
It took over two years for news of the Emancipation Proclamation to reach Texas and the enslaved people living there. But while the Juneteenth national holiday celebrates the day that the news of ...
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