This informational blog focuses on all things related to Juneteenth. Last year marked the 1st annual celebration of Juneteenth as a recognized federal holiday.
African Americans have long celebrated Freedom Day or Emancipation Day or Jubilee. The celebration originated in Texas. Although the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, it did not liberate enslaved people in areas under Confederate control . Freedom did not come to enslaved African Americans in Texas until June 19, 1865. More than 2,000 Union Troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas and announced that all enslaved people in the state of Texas were free by executive decree. Henceforth, this day was celebrated as Juneteenth.Â
NOTE: This blog was reprinted with and compiled by Abdul Akailmat, PhD
General on the national holiday
General on the Texas holiday
Media
Organizations
Texas
Curriculum
General on January 1st
Black Past
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/january-1-1863-when-new-years-day-meant-freedom/
Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
Food and other traditions
https://www.today.com/tmrw/black-new-year-s-eve-traditions-covid-19-can-t-t203786
General on June 19th (6 months later)
Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
Congressional Research Service
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44865.pdf
What to eat on Juneteenth
https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/a36479941/juneteenth-food-traditions/
Media
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/article/juneteenth-day-celebration.html
PBS
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-is-juneteenth/
CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/15/what-is-juneteenth-holidays-history-explained.html
CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/11/us/what-is-juneteenth-trnd/index.html
Organizations
National African American Museum of History and Culture
https://nmaahc.si.edu/events/juneteenth
ASALH
https://asalh.org/why-juneteenth-matters/
California Historical Association
https://californiahistoricalsociety.org/blog/the-history-of-juneteenth/
Library of Congress Blog
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2015/06/celebrating-juneteenth/
Texas
University of Texas at Austin
https://diversity.utexas.edu/2021/06/04/2021-juneteenth-celebrations/
Historical marker
https://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/5507017991/print
State holiday
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/texas-bill-makes-juneteenth-an-official-state-holiday
Texas State Historical Association
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/juneteenth
Curriculum
New York City Department of Education
https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning/subjects/social-studies/juneteenth
Learning for Justice
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/teaching-juneteenth
Democracy and Me
https://www.democracyandme.org/a-brief-history-of-juneteenth-including-resources-for-teachers-and-home-school-parents/
We are teachers
https://www.weareteachers.com/teaching-juneteenth/
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Previously Published on Historian Speaks
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Image: Juneteenth Celebration at Emancipation Park 1880 touched up. A group photograph of thirty-one people at a Juneteenth Celebration in Emancipation Park in Houston’s Fourth Ward. Reverend Jack Yates is pictured on the left and Sallie Yates is pictured in the center toward the front in a black outfit
Wikimedia, Public Domain
