RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Juneteenth
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Veteran’s Day
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Thanksgiving Day
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Texas Independence Day
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Detailed explanation-1: -June 19th would go on to be known and celebrated as Juneteenth. General Order No. 3. The people are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.
Detailed explanation-2: -It was here on June 19, 1865, that Union Army General Gordon Granger and 2, 000 federal troops arrived to formally inform the enslaved Black and African American people of Galveston and Texas-about a quarter of a million people-that the Emancipation Proclamation had freed them.
Detailed explanation-3: -In this proclamation, issued June 19, 1865 by Union general Gordon Granger, he informs the people of Galveston, Texas, that those who had been enslaved were now free. The order was read by Union troops at several locations throughout the city and published in newspapers throughout the state.
Detailed explanation-4: -On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s historic Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3, which informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were now free.