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MAS
JIUNE CELEBRATIONS
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02
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Priscilla
Duncan
Francine
Blackwell
Geraldine
Fowlkes
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03
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Louise
Griffin
Mary M Young
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05
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Clarence
Sessoms
Ruby Stanley
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06
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Nettie Banks
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07
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Lillian
Randolph
Frederick
Joynes
J Laws
Nickens, Sr
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09
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Joseph
Hillery
Bertha Kizzie
Hazel Robayl
Dorothy Lewis
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10
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Barbara
Looper
Nora Tucker
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11
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Evelyn Brooks
June Turner
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12
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Ella Hall
Margaret
Bowman
Dorothy Brown
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13
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Laveeda
Liggins
Nanno Lee
Tennyson
Johnson, Jr
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14
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Michele Green
Joseph Ward
Ruth Booker
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15
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Margaret
Patterson
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Melinda
Vinson
Alice
Creighton
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Iris Williams
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18
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Shirley
Wilson
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19
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Laura
Webb-Marshall
Alice
Harriston
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20
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Lynn Wolf
Rose Barnes
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Dora Halton
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22
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William
Haygood, Jr
Alice Bullock
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Jamesena
Watkins
Warren
Woodard
Constance
Pattillo
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28
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Shirley Delk
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Marjjorie
Coleman
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Doris Smith
Tanya Rodich
Frances
Anderson
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30
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Gloria Cooper
Pecola
Strayhorn
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HAPPY
FATHER'S
DAY
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The
many sow, but only the chosen reap;
Happy the wretched host if Day be brief,
That with the cool oblivion of sleep
A dawnless Night may soothe the smart of grief.
If from the soil our sweat enriches sprout
One meagre blossom for our hands to cull,
Accustomed indigence provokes a shout
Of praise that life becomes so bountiful.
Now ushered regally into your own,
Look where you will, as far as eye can see,
Your little seeds are to a fullness grown,
And golden fruit is ripe on every tree.
Yours is no fairy gift, no heritage
Without travail, to which weak wills aspire;
This is a merited and grief-earned wage
From One Who holds His servants worth their hire.
So has the shyest of your dreams come true,
Built not of sand, but of the solid rock,
Impregnable to all that may accrue
Of elemental rage: storm, stress, and shock.
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JUNETEENTH
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation
Day, is a holiday in the United States honoring African American heritage by commemorating the
announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. State of Texas in
1865. Celebrated on June 19, the term is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, and
is recognized as a state holiday in 37 states of the United States.[1][2]
As of May 2011, 39 states[1] and the District of Columbia have
recognized Juneteenth as either a state holiday or state holiday observance;
these are Alaska,[5] Arizona, Arkansas, California,[5] Colorado, Connecticut,[5] Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,[2] Kentucky,[6][7] Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts,
Michigan,[8] Minnesota,[9] Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey,[5] New Mexico, Nevada, New York,[5] North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,[1] Vermont,[1] Virginia, Washington, West Virginia,
Wisconsin and Wyoming.[10]
Though Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September
22, 1862, with an effective date of January 1, 1863, it had minimal immediate
effect on most slaves’ day-to-day lives, particularly in the Confederate States of America. Texas, as a
part of the Confederacy, was resistant to the Emancipation Proclamation, and
though slavery was very prevalent in East Texas, it was not as common in the
Western areas of Texas, particularly the Hill Country, where most
German-Americans were opposed to the practice. Juneteenth commemorates June 18
and 19, 1865. June 18 is the day Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000
federal troops arrived in Galveston,
Texas, to take possession of the state and enforce the
emancipation of its slaves. On June 19, 1865, legend has it while standing on
the balcony of Galveston’s Ashton Villa, Granger read
the contents of “General Order No. 3”:
The people of
Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive
of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality
of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves,
and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between
employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their
present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be
allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in
idleness either there or elsewhere.[11]
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