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They Tried to Erase Us, We Told the Story Anyway - Dallas Weekly
Before being recognized as a federal holiday on June 17, 2021, Juneteenth lived in the stories Black communities shared. I learned about it the way so many of us did — not from a schoolbook, but from the stories told by elders, at cookouts, during church programs, and as part of family traditions. We still tell the story every year: that on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that slavery had ended — two and a …
They Tried to Erase Us, We Told the Story Anyway
Before being recognized as a federal holiday on June 17, 2021, Juneteenth lived in the stories Black communities shared. I learned about it the way so many of us did — not from a schoolbook, but from the stories told by elders, at cookouts, during church programs, and as part of family traditions. We still tell the story every year: that on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that slavery had ended — two and a …
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