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Post-Civil War, This Day Spread
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Post-Civil War, This Day Spread Today, you can find Juneteenth celebrations all over the United States, including right here in the DMV area. However, originally the festival is from Texas. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when the Union military began laws surrounding the process. Today, we’d call the subsequent growth of this holiday a grassroots movement, a kind of activism that we’re intimately familiar with. Juneteenth
to enforce the 13th Amendment, which liberated all enslaved Americans — and it is not a holiday like the others. Today, as we acknowledge and account for the reality faced by many of their descendants, Juneteenth seems more appropriate than ever. In the end, though, Juneteenth is ultimately a day of celebration and hope. African Americans and Black Americans have gathered on this day for over a century, and over the years, traditions have emerged. It all started in Galveston and other areas of Texas, and early gatherings were also used to teach local people how to vote and about the
During Jim Crow and the Great Depression, the movement lost steam, but activists have always pushed for its inclusion in as many cities as possible, places big and small, urban and rural alike. Slowed but never stalled, it eventually gained national attention in Texas in the 1970s, and it’s been state after state of celebration and prayer breakfasts ever since. It seems like Juneteenth will continue to grow, which means you might want to circle June 19 on future calendars. Local celebrations abound, and a potential federal holiday in the vein of Indigenous Peoples’ Day might well be in the cards in the next decade.
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