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Juneteenth: Emancipation Proclamation
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Juneteenth is Ralph Ellison's novel about civil rights and racism issues in the early to mid-twentieth century. The book's title stems from the June 19, 1865, notification to slaves in Texas concerning the emancipation of slaves. In actuality, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was issued in January of 1863, two and a half years prior to this notification. "Juneteenth" is the slang term assigned by the Negro people of that time to mark the inaccuracy and injustice of the delayed information.
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Juneteenth (June 19) marks the anniversary of the day in 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the "Emancipation Proclamation" to the slaves in Texas. The slaves in Texas were the very last slaves to be freed after the Civil Ward because Confederate troops fought for several weeks after General Robert E. Lee's surrender.
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Juneteenth or June 19, 1865, is considered the date when the last slaves in America were freed. Although the rumors of freedom were widespread prior to this, actual emancipation did not come until General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas and issued General Order No. 3, on June 19, almost two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Economic and cultural forces provided for a decline in Juneteenth activities and participants beginning in the early 1900's. Classroom and textbook education in lieu of traditional home and family-taught practices stifled the interest of the youth due to less emphasis and detail on the activities of former slaves. Classroom text books proclaimed Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 as the date signaling the ending of slavery - and little or nothing on the impact of General Granger's arrival on June 19th.
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A celebration called Juneteenth marks the anniversary of freed black slaves in Texas. These slaves found out that they were free between June 13th and June 19th, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been passed.
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