At Your Library:Program explores history of Juneteenth
There’s more than one Independence Day in the U.S., as noted by the Oxford African American Studies Center database at the Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center.On June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger, commander of the Union troops occupying Texas and Oklahoma, rode into Galveston, Texas, and announced that slaves were now free two months after the end of the Civil War. The liberated slaves responded to this announcement with a spontaneous festival of freedom. This […]
