Friday, June 19, 2020

The National Archives has unearthed the original handwritten Juneteenth order

On June 19, 1865, Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were free by executive decree.
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