Free at Last: Remembering History Forgotten (Juneteenth/Freedom Day)
This blog post was written by Poage’s undergraduate student assistant Kayla Thompson. Although the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in January 1863, Texas was a little late receiving the news. It was not until Union General Gordon Granger landed in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 that he was able to deliver…