By Cherith Glover Fluker | For the Birmingham Times Juneteenth, short for June Nineteenth, marks the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the freedom of enslaved people. This came two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation had already declared them free. The delay itself tells a story of suppressed information, deliberate resistance, and the long, complicated distance between a promise and its ful…
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