A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
Every nation has defining moments. Days when history bends toward justice. Days when a promise, long delayed, finally becomes reality. For the United States, Juneteenth is one of those days. On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order No. 3, announcing that all enslaved people were […] The post Juneteenth and the Triumph of Freedom appeared first on StoneZone .
Every nation has defining moments. Days when history bends toward justice. Days when a promise, long delayed, finally becomes reality. For the United States, Juneteenth is one of those days. On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order No. 3, announcing that all enslaved people were free. More than 250,000 black American men, women, and children living in bondage in Texas learned that the institution which had controlled their lives was finally at an end. The Civil War was effectively over. The Confederacy had collapsed. The Emancipation Proclamation had been law for more than two years. Yet in Texas, slavery persisted until federal authority arrived to enforce freedom. The…Open
'If this doesn’t make you angry, it should'
The administration builds its arguments on an 1800s campaign, led in part by a Confederate officer, that scholars say was steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism.