Juneteenth is the Oldest Nationally Celebrated Commemoration of the Republicans Ending of Slavery in the United States
the staff of the Ridgewood blogRidgewood NJ, Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the. . .
the staff of the Ridgewood blogRidgewood NJ, Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day . The celebrations that followed the reading of the proclamation by General Gordon Granger began a tradition that has lasted for one hundred and fifty five years, and today is hosted in cities across America and beyond. Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. Juneteenth is commemorative, not of the horrific institution our country embraced, but rather as a showcase of the strength in the American spirit to recognize wrong and set about making it right. Where Republican Abraham Lincoln and the Union Army defeated Jefferson Davis and slave owning Democrats of the Southern Confederacy . In this same spirit America moves ahead today in leveling playing fields and achieving ever greater equality. Let us celebrate all that Juneteenth teaches us about our country’s greatness of the heart to hear and to learn and to work together for all that is good and just. The Emancipation Proclamation, the bloody war for a free Union, and the Civil War Amendments to our Constitution—the 13th, 14th, and 15th, which significantly expanded civil rights—were all victories achieved by one side. All of them came from the Republican Party. Republicans diligentlyopposedthe Democratic Party, the party of slavery, secession, rebellion, Jim Crow, segregation, separate but equal, and the Ku Klux Klan. After losing the Civil War, the Democratic Party successfully blocked equal rights for over a century, necessitating another Civil Rights movementFollow the Ridgewood blog has a brand-new new X account, we tweet good sh$thttps://x. com/TRBNJNewshttps://truthsocial. com/@theridgewoodbloghttps://mewe. com/jamesfoytlin. 74/posts#news #follow #media #trending #viral #newsupdate #currentaffairs #BergenCountyNews #NJBreakingNews #NJHeadlines #NJTopStories