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Juneteenth Corporate Fails
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9:22Now PlayingWhen and from whom did you first learn about Juneteenth? Did you see any other cringe-worthy corporate efforts to market Juneteenth? Let us know in the comments below.
Juneteenth was made a federal holiday only on June 17, 2021 (fun fact: it replaced Columbus Day). In June 1865 the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people were freed. Although Pres. Lincoln declared all slaves (in the south) free with the emancipation proclamation two years earlier, the enslaved folks in Texas had no idea that this had happened and had been deliberately misinformed about the war. Juneteenth is a celebration of liberation and equality for black Americans, which 157 years later still has yet to be fully realized, as the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow continue on.
Here’s how History.com described the advent of Juneteenth::
“After the war came to a close in the spring of 1865, General Granger’s arrival in Galveston that June signaled freedom for Texas’s 250,000 enslaved people. Although emancipation didn’t happen overnight for everyone—in some cases, enslavers withheld the information until after harvest season—celebrations broke out among newly freed Black people, and Juneteenth was born. That December, slavery in America was formally abolished with the adoption of the 13th Amendment… The year following 1865, freedmen in Texas organized the first of what became the annual celebration of "Jubilee Day" on June 19.”
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Recorded June 19, 2022
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