Juneteenth 
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SOURCE: The Conversation
6/16/2023
Texas Politicians Want to Erase What Happened Between Juneteenth and Jim Crow
by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Zachary Montz
Joshua Houston, long enslaved by Sam Houston, recognized that the collective work of securing freedom only began with the announcement of emancipation, and that teaching the state's history honestly was part of the struggle for an egalitarian society against people determined to stand against it.
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
6/16/2023
Juneteenth has Gone National—We Must Preserve its Local Meanings
by Tiya Miles
Juneteenth celebrations have long been couched in local Black communities' preserved rituals that express particular ideas about heritage and the meaning of freedom. While a national commemoration of emancipation is welcome, history will be lost if local observances are swamped by a national holiday.
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SOURCE: SPLC Learning for Justice
6/12/2019
Teaching Hard Histories Through Juneteenth
A celebration of freedom should put the work of the people who fought and struggled to achieve it at the center; thinking of freedom as something achieved instead of something granted.
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6/18/2023
What to the Incarcerated Is Juneteenth?
by Antoine Davis and Darrell Jackson
"We prisoners who are left to deteriorate inside one of America's most inhumane systems are able to find joy in celebrating Juneteenth, but not without indignities."
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6/19/2022
"Oh, We Knowed What Was Goin’ On": The Myths (and Lies) of Juneteenth
by Clyde W. Ford
After the myths of Juneteenth are stripped away, the day symbolizes the incompleteness of the promise of emancipation.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/25/2021
The Emancipation Proclamation did not End Slavery. Here’s what Did
by Clarence Lusane
Chattel slavery was ended by the enactment of the 13th Amendment. Whatever the merits of recognizing the Juneteenth holiday, it commemorates the specific emancipation of enslaved Texans, and not national abolition.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/18/2021
The Truth About Black Freedom
by Daina Ramey Berry
Observing Juneteenth shouldn't be limited to commemorating a grant of freedom by the government; the deeper history of emancipation is of Black Americans demanding and pursuing freedom for themselves.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/18/2021
What the Push to Celebrate Juneteenth Conceals
by Kellie Carter Jackson
"It is impossible to celebrate Juneteenth and simultaneously deny the teaching of America’s foundational legacy."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/18/2021
Event: History Matters with Annette Gordon-Reed, Historian & Author, “On Juneteenth” (Friday, June 18)
Jonathan Capehart will host a discussion with Annette Gordon-Reed of her new book "On Juneteenth" on Friday at 12:00 eastern.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
6/14/2021
How Deep Is America’s Reckoning with Racism? (Review Essay)
by Kerri Greenidge
"Juneteenth has gained recent popular attention after white Americans responded to last summer’s mass protest movement in the most American way possible—through token gestures of “historical reckoning” rather than actual atonement through, say, restoration of Section 4b of the 1965 Voting Rights Act."
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/21/2021
The Historian Annette Gordon-Reed Gets Personal in ‘On Juneteenth’
"In 'On Juneteenth' Annette Gordon-Reed leads by example, revisiting her own experiences, questioning her own assumptions — and showing that historical understanding is a process, not an end point."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/19/2020
Black Joy—Not Corporate Acknowledgment—Is the Heart of Juneteenth
by Kellie Carter Jackson
Companies and state governments are finally recognizing Emancipation Day as an official holiday, but black Americans have honored its significance all along.
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SOURCE: Current Affairs
6/19/2020
Why Juneteenth Matters
by Robert Greene II
The contribution of Juneteenth by Black Texans to the broader Black American pantheon of celebrations and holidays should be cherished, just like that of the first Decoration Day held by Black South Carolinians in 1865.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/18/2020
Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names
by Martha S. Jones
Among black women, names passed down represent the preservation of the memory and history of struggles for freedom. The author's name reflects those struggles at the intimate scale of family.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
6/19/2020
Growing Up with Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed
"I... did not know, as a child, how intensely African-Americans had fought to keep alive the memory of Juneteenth—to commemorate our ancestors’ struggles and their hopes, and to link them to our own."
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SOURCE: Cabrini University
6/19/2020
Pacing the Struggle for Black Equality
by Darryl C. Mace and Joseph R. Fitzgerald
Black people continue to remind this nation that unless they are free, no one is free. Black liberation cannot be denied.
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SOURCE: CNN
6/13/2020
Make Juneteenth a National Holiday Now
by Peniel Joseph
Making a national holiday to honor the emancipation of enslaved people would help fulfill a "generational opportunity" to finally build the Beloved Community Martin Luther King Jr. sought in his own lifetime.
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SOURCE: AP
6/19/19
GU272 Memory Project Launches on Juneteenth
In addition to documents, photographs and the indexed genealogies of thousands of descendants, the project includes recorded interviews with dozens of living descendants.
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SOURCE: The American Historian
06/17/2019
Juneteenth and Beyond: African American Emancipations Celebrations Since 1808
by Wilma King
June Nineteenth is widely celebrated for the abolition of slavery in Texas and the Confederate States in general.
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6/19/18
Juneteenth
What it is and why it's celebrated.