Happy Juneteenth, everyone! Today’s holiday marks the day Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger entered Galveston, Texas in 1865 and issued General Order No. 3. In essence, it said “The war’s over, and the Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery is the law of the land.”
I’ve written about the holiday before:
Our Newest Federal Holiday (and my Confederate great great grandfather)
As Dr. Shane Bolles Wash said, “It immediately changed the game for 250,000 people.”
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
― Booker T. Washington
Here’s to freedom, for us all.
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J.R. Johnson 
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