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When @RealDonaldTrump announced he would be holding a campaign rally on June 19 in #Tulsa, #Oklahoma, there was immediate backlash. #Juneteenth nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Not only had the president chosen #Juneteenth - a day celebrating freedom and recognizing the resilience of enslaved people - but he also chose the city where a mob of white supremacists terrorized and killed Black people, destroying #BlackWallStreet in the 1921 #TulsaMassacre.
As our nation grapples with recent police killings of Black people and calls to address systemic racism and white supremacy culture in our society, @RealDonaldTrump was criticized for co-opting historically significant spaces for Black people for himself.
This Friday, for the first time, @meyermt will close to honor#Juneteenth, a celebration marking the 155th anniversary of the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans in the United States were declared free. (1/23) 
President Abraham Lincoln issued the first draft of the #EmancipationProclamation in 1862, but news traveled slowly across Confederate states even after the end of the Civil War in April 1865. Texans learned of the proclamation 30 months after the original announcement. (2/23)
Gen. Gordon Granger delivered the news in #Galveston on June 19, 1865: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”(3/23)
#OTD: On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by Abraham Lincoln, went into effect. This proclamation did not, in fact, free all enslaved people, but only those in states that had seceded and that were not yet under Union control.
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Lincoln also seemed to address the fears of white people that recently freed Black people would seek violent retribution. He urged freed people to "abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence."
Also, in what seems to be a nod to the pernicious assumption that emancipated Black people would not work without coercion, Lincoln admonished freed people to "labor faithfully for reasonable wages."
