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

The Moment

Outside the Oval Office, I kept a painting of a small crowd huddled around a pocketwatch, waiting for the moment th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 19, 2019

On Juneteenth, we celebrate our capacity to make real the promise of our founding, that thing inside each of us tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 19, 2019

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