Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900, held in ‘East Woods’ on East 24th St. in Austin, Texas. Austin History Center – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered,too by Kris Manjapra, Tufts University The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers … Continued
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