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	Juneteenth U.S.A. Holiday sponsored by Texas State Representative Al Edwards
		Juneteenth USA activities focus primarily on education and the dissemination of helpful information to society about Texans history with specific emphasizes on the importance and meaning of Emancipation (June 19, 1865).
		This was the birth of Juneteenth in Texas.
		Juneteenth U.S.A. continues to be a beacon in the night providing arts, history, education, and services that fit the needs of the community at large.
	www.texasjuneteenthusa.com (1291 words)

	Juneteenth - MSN Encarta
		Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, annual holiday celebrated on June 19 in the United States to commemorate the ending of slavery.
		Interest in Juneteenth celebrations further waned during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, when the holiday was associated with past repression and segregation.
		In some southern cities, Juneteenth was the only day each year when all-white local governments would permit African Americans to use city parks and zoos.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761595967/Juneteenth.html?GT1=6657 (542 words)

	Juneteenth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is the annual holiday celebrated on June 19 in the United States to commemorate the end of slavery.
		Juneteenth has its origins in Texas, where it was primarily celebrated for more than a century.
		Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce slaves' new freedoms.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Juneteenth (442 words)

	Juneteenth - Texas State Library
		Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, is the name given to emancipation day by African-Americans in Texas.
		Celebration of Juneteenth declined during World War II but revived in 1950 at the Texas State Fair Grounds in Dallas.
		Since that time, the celebration of Juneteenth continues across the state of Texas with parades, picnics and dancing.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /ref/abouttx/juneteenth.html (376 words)

	Juneteenth in Harlem 2004
		Juneteenth is an annual celebration of the late emancipation of Texas’; slaves.
		Juneteenth is nonexclusive to African Americans because its primary objective is the coming together of all people.
		Juneteenth encompasses a reminder of the past and a great promise for the future.
	www.harlemlive.org /community/events/Juneteenthcelebration/Juneteenth.html (452 words)

	juneteenth
		Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery.
		The Juneteenth celebration was a time for reassuring each other, for praying and for gathering remaining family members.
		Juneteenth continued to be highly revered in Texas decades later, with many former slaves and descendants making an annual pilgrimage back to Galveston on this date.
	www.stocktonafricanamericanchamber.org /juneteenth.htm (686 words)

	Holidays on the Net - Juneteenth
		Juneteenth is the celebration of the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation which was issued by US President Abraham Lincoln on January 1st, 1863.
		The word "Juneteenth" comes from the words "June" and "19th", which according to southern folklore is when the slaves of Texas first learned of their freedom.
		Juneteenth began as a celebration by ex-slaves and has continued to be observed by African-Americans in the US South.
	www.holidays.net /dailys/holidays/juneteenth.htm (305 words)

	Elegba Folklore Society - Information Regarding Juneteenth
		Juneteenth, A Freedom Celebration is a family event featuring performances, speakers, ceremonies, exhibitors, historic reenactments and special children's activities.
		Its purpose is to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday by remembering the impact of the African slave trade in Virginia, during the 244 years between 1619 and 1863 and its legacy.
		Juneteenth, A Freedom Celebration is endorsed by the Richmond Slave Trail Commission, Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality and Blacks United for Action.
	www.elegbafolkloresociety.org /efs_juneteenth_2005info.html (762 words)

	JUNETEENTH WORLD WIDE CELEBRATION
		Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States.
		The Juneteenth celebration was a time for reassuring each other, for praying and for gathering remaining family members.
		Juneteenth continued to be highly revered in Texas decades later, with many former slaves and descendants making an annual pilgrimage back to Galveston on this date.
	www.juneteenth.com /history.htm (1594 words)

	Juneteenth & The Fillmore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The assertion of the new found freedom that fls received in San Francisco from segregation in the Southwest was as important an expression as the original celebration of emancipation.
		San Francisco Juneteenth is the one constant which dates back to the days when the Western Addition covered 120 consecutive blocks of 100 percent African-American households.
		Juneteenth represents a family reunion for the extended Bay Area African-American community and it has been organized by the people who are its respected elders.
	www.sfjuneteenth.org /about_sfj_committee.html (1262 words)

	Juneteenth - A Celebration of Freedom
		Juneteenth - This celebration of freedom from slavery is the oldest African-American holiday observed in the United States.
		Juneteenth draws on the full richness of America's fl cultural heritage, from the dazzling range of vernacular sources in its language to the way its structure echoes the call-and-response pattern of the fl church and the riffs and bass lines of jazz.
		Juneteenth: Freedom Day - Muriel Miller Branch - Juneteenth is the grandfather of all holidays for Black Texans From its spontaneous beginning on June 19, 1865, as slaves in Galveston, Texas, reacted to the delayed news of the Emancipation Proclamation, the holiday has spread nationwide among Black Americans.
	www.celebratelove.com /juneteenth.htm (989 words)

	// Juneteenth Film Festival 2006 // History //
		In the state capital Juneteenth was first celebrated in 1867 under the direction of the Freedmen's Bureau qv and became part of the calendar of public events by 1872.
		Juneteenth in Limestone County has gathered "thousands" to be with families and friends.
		Juneteenth declined in popularity in the early 1960s, when the civil-rights movement, with its push for integration, diminished interest in the event.
	www.juneteenthfilmfestival.com /history.html (682 words)

	Encyclopedia: Juneteenth
		Juneteenth may refer to: Juneteenth, an annual holiday celebrated on June 19 in the United States to commemorate the ending of slavery Juneteenth (novel), a novel by African American writer Ralph Ellison This is a disambiguation pageâ€”a list of articles associated with the same title.
		Standing at the heart of Galveston's business district, known as the Strand, Granger read the contents of "General Order No. 3": The Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation was a declaration by United States President Abraham Lincoln announcing that all slaves in Confederate territory still in rebellion were freed.
		Juneteenth is the title of African American writer Ralph Ellison's second novel (ISBN 0394464575), published posthumously as a 368-page condensation of over 2000 pages written by him over a period of forty years.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Juneteenth (1003 words)

	Juneteenth
		An Official State Holiday celebrated in Texas since 1980, Juneteenth has been growing nationwide and is already a festivity in more than 200 towns and cities and in faraway states such as Alaska.
		As Juneteenth grows in visibility and marketability, some are eager to exploit it as a day not of joy and jubilee but of grievance and racial separation — as a way to drive a wedge between African-Americans and other Americans.
		Juneteenth for more than a century was a positive day of rejoicing and feasting, of barbecues and speeches of thanksgiving.
	www.frontpagemag.com /ARticles/Printable.asp?ID=1116 (888 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Juneteenth by Ralph Waldo Ellison, reviewed by The New Republic Online
		Juneteenth, alas, which insists on an affirmative reclamation of the past in order to educate its characters, is too often a real allegory.
		But it seems possible that this is a widespread affliction in the rest of Ellison's posthumous writings, that the massiveness and the massive nobility of the project caused a toppling, and a dumbfounding of the novelistic in favor of the epically allegorical.
		Juneteenth is a lesson in the complexity of American identity, as Invisible Man was a quest for the same.
	www.powells.com /review/2001_07_05.html (3984 words)

	Ethnic Resource Centers: JUNETEENTH (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Juneteenth (June 19) marks the anniversary of the day in 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the "Emancipation Proclamation" to the slaves in Texas.
		Juneteenth was celebrated by Black Americans in much the same style as the Fourth of July.
		Juneteenth was given official holiday status in Texas in 1979 which means that banks, government offices and schools are closed.
	www.colapublib.org /services/ethnic/juneteenth.html (774 words)

	Juneteenth of Buffalo 2007 - Welcome!
		The Juneteenth Festival of Buffalo was started in 1976 by B.U.I.L.D., a community-based organization, as a culturally relevant alternative to the country's Bicentennial Celebration.
		In 2000, the name of the organization was changed to Juneteenth of Buffalo, Inc. to reflect its broader mission.
		The Juneteenth Festival of Buffalo, NY is an important component of summertime events in the Buffalo-Niagara region.
	www.juneteenthofbuffalo.com (217 words)

	review of Ellison's Juneteenth
		In 1966 a fire at his home destroyed a portion of his manuscript, and during the ensuing years there were reports that the work in progress was slowly changing shape, evolving into an increasingly ambitious saga that, in the words of his literary executor, John F. Callahan, was "multifarious, multifaceted, multifocused, multivoiced, multitoned."
		"Juneteenth," in contrast, focuses on a man's evasion of identity, as he attempts -- in vain, it turns out -- to erase his personal history by embracing racial hatred.
		During the service, commemorating the anniversary of June 19, 1865 (the day, two and a half years after the effective date of the Emancipation Proclamation, that Union troops landed in Galveston, Tex., and informed the slaves that they were free), a crazed white woman appears and declares that Bliss is her long-lost son.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/ellison-juneteenth-review.html (976 words)

	blackintellects: Happy Juneteenth!
		Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
		Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived on Galveston Island to take possession of the state and enforce slaves' new freedoms.
		That day has since become known as Juneteenth, a name derived from a portmanteau of the words June and nineteenth.
	community.livejournal.com /blackintellects/200516.html (538 words)

	Lee & Low Books - Teachers, Classroom Guides
		It’s Juneteenth, and the town is holding its annual Juneteenth Jamboree.
		Juneteenth, a blend of the words "June" and "nineteenth," is an emancipation celebration that is said to have begun on June 19, 1865, when Union Army soldiers arrived in Texas and informed slaves that they were free.
		Over the years, different legends have been created to explain the reason for the delay in freeing the slaves of Texas, including the story that the messenger was sent from the nation’s capitol on a mule.
	www.leeandlow.com /teachers/guide18.html (571 words)

	THE MEANING OF JUNETEENTH--FREEDOM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Juneteenth or June 19, 1865, is considered the date when the last slaves in America were freed.
		Religion has always been at the root of the observance of this holiday, which is ironic, considering it is a holiday born out of an institution so far removed from Christian ideals--slavery.
		While the painful side of slavery makes it difficult for many fls to celebrate Juneteenth, it is the positive legacy of perseverance and cooperation that makes it impossible for others to ignore.
	www.actom.com /njclchistory.htm (2389 words)

	Texas Monthly ISSUE: Juneteenth
		The first Juneteenth was the long-awaited day of Jubilee, the realization of freedom that generations of slaves had dreamed of.
		In East Texas in particular, Juneteenth became the fl Fourth of July and was commemorated in similar ways, with family homecomings and covered-dish suppers under shady trees, baseball games between rival towns, speeches, and readings from historic documents.
		Juneteenth has enjoyed something of a resurgence in the eighties as it continues to be a mirror for fl social and political attitudes.
	www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1988-06-01/primer.php (765 words)

	Headline (Site not responding. Last check: )
		June 19, 1865, “Juneteenth,” - most of the people in the U.S. likely put little significance on the date, but to a large part of the African-American community it is the second, maybe even the first, Independence Day.
		According to www.juneteenth.com, Juneteenth is now recognized as a state holiday or state holiday observance in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Delaware, Idaho, Alaska, Iowa, California, Wyoming, Missouri, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey and the District of Columbia.
		Arkansas is among the states noted for recognizing Juneteenth through state legislative resolutions or gubernatorial proclamations.
	www.lonokedemocrat.com /Pages/06-09-04/Juneteenth.htm (695 words)

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