Juneteenth has long been a big deal in Texas, Georgia, & various parts of the South, but it is an obscure holiday in much of the North, Midwest and West of the country. I was in my thirties before I'd heard of it, & have still never seen signs of its celebration around NY.https://twitter.com/tedfrank/status/1273586852893798400 …
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Or how about....Columbus Day, which is a much bigger fixture in the NE and MW. But yeah, in OH, no idea what juneteenth was until last week
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I’d never heard of it. I live in the Deep South.
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Hmmm, I wonder how that could be
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NYS abolished slavery decades before the Civil Warhttps://history.nycourts.gov/when-did-slavery-end-in-new-york/ …
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Here in TX it’s obviously something we know about. But of course our civic institutions across the post reconstruction and Jim Crow south never had an incentive to memorialize the day when the federal occupation forces officially proclaimed the end of slavery here.
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I am 53 years old, have lived in NYC, Virginia, Hawaii, Chicago, and now Colorado, and consider myself well-read. And over all those years in all those places I had not heard of Juneteeth until just a few days ago.
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It’s been a thing out here in California for at least 30 years and was a thing in southern Illinois when I grew up (I’m older than 30, and I’ll leave it at that).
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September 22, 1862 - Emancipation Proclamation issued January 1, 1863 - Proclamation goes into effect These two dates are historic and meaningful June 19 - Union General reads aloud a Federal order proclaiming all slaves in Texas are free. Why is this a big deal outside of Texas?
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