
Juneteenth: A New National Holiday?
(above, Juneteenth Flag)
Yes, by unanimous vote in the United States Senate, the US Congress this week authorized a new National Holiday, Juneteenth. Long celebrated by Blacks in Texas, Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day when a Union Army General rode into Galveston and announced General Order No. 3 proclaiming freedom for the enslaved in Texas. Of course, that date is more than 2 years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all the enslav