Juneteenth In Texas

In this episode, we trace the Texas origins of Juneteenth from Galveston to a holiday now recognized across the United States and beyond. Juneteenth didn’t become powerful because the paperwork was poetic. It became powerful because people made it a public declaration that freedom had to mean something real. We walk through the moment General Gordon Granger issues General Order No. 3 on June 19, 1865 and we read it the way historians do, line by line. We look at how history opens the d...