Juneteenth.
Slavery did not become illegal in the United States and all it's territories until December 6, 1865. On June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger arrived with Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas, and announced to enslaved Africans Americans that the Civil War had ended and they were free — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The holiday, which gets its named from the combination of June and Nineteenth, is also known as Emancipation Day, Juneteenth Independence Day and Black Independence Day.
That's 155 years ago. How many generations have been free? That's about 6 generations. Only 6 generations of African Americans were not born into slavery. 6 generations out of slavery, that didn't include The Black Code, Jim Crow, segregation, desegregation, or anything else that came after. Not much black people have benefited positively from the end of slavery in the grand scheme of things. Wow, that really put things into perspective. If we were to look at how many years, how many generations of black people were actually given complete freedom... maybe my generation was first? Or maybe we just have an idea of freedom, but it's just out of reach?
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You seriously just said everything I was thinking!
Very informative post! These are things that the schools should talk more about. I unfortunately would hear more about the Great Depression and WWII. They never talk about things like this.
I wish they taught me this in school too
@thatregalmujer, I remember learning about the harlem renaissance 2 years ago in my English class in college. I thought that was really interesting. That’s something that schools should also teach people. I was lucky my teacher went through that topic for about a week since know one in class ever learned about it before hand. It’s like they just teach you the same basic things in school. The Great Depression was boring to me lol. Also they never spoke much about the history of native Americans. I heard to learn that on my own and then when I took a class about it.