Juneteenth for All

 

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Why do we say that Juneteenth is a celebration for all when it applied to formerly enslaved people of African descent in Texas?

It is because, when we learn to love freedom, the freedom of one is the freedom of all. We all share in its blessings when received and in its deprivation when it is withheld.

On Juneteenth, we remember the initiative  to inform and enforce the liberation of slaves in slavery's final frontier of the rebel states. Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War.

The date, June 19, 1865, refers to the day when enslaved African Americans, basically, in Texas, learned of their emancipation. The star represents Texas, the Lone Star State, as well as the freedom of African Americans in all 50 states.

Read More at

https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/discrimination/celebrating-freedom-juneteenth-and-emancipation-day-commemorations-richmond-va/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/06/18/a-proclamation-on-juneteenth-day-of-observance-2024/

https://www.juneteenth.com/

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/historical-legacy-juneteenth

Move Forth in Freedom - A Spiritual Application

Let us all seek to be better people

 

God has not forgotten any of the folks under these skies

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Emancioatuon day
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