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It's Friday June 19th. Oh happy Juneteenth. Happy Freedom Day.

Juneteenth is the day African-American celebrate the end of slavery, but Brenda Stevenson

professor of history and African-American studies at UCLA says everyone should get behind the

Juneteenth celebrations. I asked you to explain the history of Juneteenth me back in 2018,

but it feels more important now than ever that everyone understands this holiday in June 2020.

So today you're gonna get an encore presentation. It all goes back to Texas.

Juneteenth starts really in 1865 when General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas

and with 2000 troops to basically take over this area that was held by the Confederacy.

And as part of that, he is going to let those persons who are still enslaved in Texas during

this time period know that slavery has ended. Obviously this all comes down to June 19th, 1865.

What happens that they in Galveston, Texas? What is read out and who celebrates?

General Granger is the person who reads this proclamation that says,

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 the rights of property between former masters and slaves. And the connection here too for

existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.

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