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Juneteenth, the blending of the words June and nineteen, celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. It is also known asEmancipationDay, Juneteenth Independence Day, and Black Independence Day. It payshomageto the day enslaved people of Galveston, Texas were informed that the Civil W...
WHAT DOES JUNETEENTH MEAN? The term Juneteenth is a blend of the words June and 19th. The holiday also has been called Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day. Cliff Robinson, who runs the Juneteenth.com website that tracks annual celebrations, said there will be some kind of event...
What does Juneteenth mean to you? I didn’t necessarily grow up celebrating Juneteenth, but it’s something that I always knew about. Juneteenth started in Galveston, Texas, with the last freed black people in America. There’s a lot of tradition in that culture, and it’s very simil...
WHAT DOES ‘JUNETEENTH’ MEAN? The term Juneteenth is a blend of the words June and nineteenth. The holiday has also been called Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day. Often celebrated at first with church picnics and speeches, the holiday spread across the nation and internationally as...
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Why is it called Juneteenth? What does the Juneteenth symbol mean?Juneteenth is short for June Nineteenth, which marks the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas in 1865. It was Union General Gordon Granger who read General Orders No.3 stating that all slaves were free. Today...
[DK}: What does Juneteenth mean to you? [NT & TS]:To us, it symbolizes freedom, resilience, and the ongoing fight for equality. It's a time to reflect, celebrate progress, and commit to dismantling systemic barriers. At Stemuli, we embrace Juneteenth's spirit by empowering individual...
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But what does the holidaymean? Does it mean that chattel slavery was bad? Yes it was, horribly so, but so are the types of slavery practices in the modern day, which mostly involve kidnapping and/or false imprisonment, extortion, and threats (and actualities) of torture. These still cr...