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The 44 Percent: Florida’s Emancipation Day + Biden’s billion-dollar promise + A Black pioneer in...
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoThis occurred 11 days after the end of the Civil War and two years after President Abraham Lincoln...
'Mayteenth' in Tallahassee: Emancipation Proclamation read publicly, 159 years later
Tallahassee Democrat· 4 days agoOn the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first...
Jacksonville holds 4th annual celebration of Florida’s Emancipation Proclamation Day
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 3 days agoJacksonville city leaders and state officials commemorated Florida’s 159th Emancipation Proclamation...
Tallahassee celebrates Emancipation Day with bells, dramatic reading
Gannett via AOL· 4 days agoOn May 20, 1865, the Emancipation Proclamation was first read on the steps of the Knott House by...
Florida Emancipation Day again recognized in Gainesville at museum in Black community
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThat day is when enslaved Africans first learned of their freedom in Tallahassee, more than two...
The history of Milwaukee's Juneteenth flag
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoMilwaukee’s annual Juneteenth celebration is one of the country’s oldest. The red, white and blue flag is one of our 100 objects that make Milwaukee.
Beshear makes Juneteenth a Kentucky holiday, protects natural hair in state workplaces
Kentucky Lantern via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoGov. Andy Beshear on Thursday signed executive orders making Juneteenth an executive branch holiday...
Takeaways from Tallahassee — Celebration time
Florida Politics· 6 days agoWhile June 19 is the official federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, Gen. Edward McCook first read the Emancipation Proclamation on the steps ...
Lies About American History We Were All Taught in School
Cheapism via AOL· 7 hours agoA lot of U.S. history is too good to be true — and actually is not. Sometimes fact is ignored, or...
Culpeper NAACP to host Juneteenth celebration
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star· 3 days agoFirst celebrated in Texas, Juneteenth recognizes the emancipation of African American slaves by President Abraham Lincoln’s ...