Myron B. Pitts: Juneteenth narrative misses the mark, historian says
I didn’t know a lot about Juneteenth until the early 2000s, when a former coworker who is from Cincinnati said his family celebrated it.The name refers to June 19, 1865 when, as the popular version of the story goes, word reached enslaved African Americans in Texas that they were freed. You’ll note that the date is 2 1/2 years after President Lincoln signed his famous Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863.Juneteenth is also called Freedom Day, among other […]
