Juneteenth!

June 21, 2009 by mike.

Tip of the hat to Mock, Paper, Scissors.

Busy week.  Actually had to prepare and go to trial this week.  I do freelance paralegal work, but I only end up at trial once in a great long while.  This was a grind, 5 plus hours on witness stand in a battle of experts child custody case.  I am decompressing and catching up on the news.

So, I am a couple days late celebrating Juneteenth.

clipped from www.mockpaperscissors.com Today is Juneteenth. It is the name for a holiday celebrating June 19, 1865, the day when Union soldiers arrived in Texas and spread the word that President Lincoln had delivered his Emancipation Procalamation. News traveled so slowly in those days and Texas did not hear of Lincoln’s Proclamation, which he gave on January 1, 1863, until more than two years after it was issued! Although Juneteenth has been informally celebrated each year since 1865, it wasn’t until June 3, 1979, that Texas became the first state to proclaim Emancipation Day (Juneteenth) an official state holiday. But it is much more than a holiday. Juneteenth has become a day for African Americans to celebrate their freedom, culture, and achievements. It is a day for all Americans to celebrate African American history and rejoice in their freedom.

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