Juneteenth: A Story Of Progress

Here's what #Juneteenth means to me: https://t.co/KlOoYwdzD5

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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) June 19, 2020

This #Juneteenth, let’s all pledge to keep using our voices—and our votes—to keep marching toward freedom. https://t.co/I510X0HCKe

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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) June 19, 2020

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Juneteenth has never been a celebration of victory, or an acceptance of the way things are. It's a celebration of p… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 19, 2020

Juneteenth: Freedom Day

"Juneteenth is a time to recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest h… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) June 19, 2020

Harriet Tubman Mother Freedom #Juneteenth https://t.co/iI1DdcxJno

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Be A King (@BerniceKing) June 19, 2020

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A great way to celebrate #Juneteenth? Support Black women filmmakers like @cgpeoples - her film @Juneteenthmovie d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Rebecca Theodore-Vachon (@FilmFatale_NYC) June 19, 2020

#OTD in 1865, enslaved African Americans were notified of their freedom by Union troops in Galveston Bay, TX—two ye… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) June 19, 2020

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Happy Emancipation Day! Just a few facts:The US was 3rd to last in the Americas to abolish slavery. The Emancipat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 19, 2020

In fact, the idea for the proclamation came because enslaved people emancipated themselves and ran away to Fort Mon… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 19, 2020

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When their “owner” came to claim his property, the Union general over the fort decided that as “property”, the Unio… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 19, 2020

So as we celebrate the last enslaved people learning they were free, let’s remember that all across the South ensla… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 19, 2020

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Though it has long been celebrated among the African American community, it is a history that has been marginalized… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) June 19, 2020

Although the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still unde… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) June 19, 2020

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For more than 250,000 African Americans, June 19, 1865, signaled the final day of their enslavement. Two and a half… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) June 19, 2020

Not until Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX with 2,000 soldiers on June 19, 1865, did enslaved… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) June 19, 2020

Freedom: Juneteenth

A school in Richmond, Virginia, is dropping the name of a slaveholding confederate general and becoming Barack Obam… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) June 19, 2018

#OTD in 1865, enslaved African Americans were notified of their freedom by Union troops in Galveston Bay, TX. Known… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) June 19, 2018

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Today is Juneteenth, otherwise known as America's second Independence Day. And there's no better time to remember w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 19, 2018

More here from @SmithsonianMag smithsonianmag.com/history/junete…

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Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 19, 2018

‘lincoln sells out slaves!’

On March 8th 2011 President Obama took questions from a group of Boston Area College Democrats, Republicans and Independents after his speech at Tech Boston Academy in Dorchester, MA.

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President Barack Obama views the Emancipation Proclamation with a small group of African American seniors, their grandchildren and some children from the Washington, D.C. area, in the Oval Office, Jan. 18, 2010. This copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, which is on loan from the Smithsonian Museum of American History, was hung on the wall of the Oval Office today and will be exhibited for six months, before being moved to the Lincoln Bedroom where the original Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza)