Juneteenth Celebration

History of Juneteenth

ACC EVC Celebration (Thursday, 18 June)

Local Events are listed in the Statesman.
(http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/06/15/0615juneteenth.html)

Summary from the article in Handbook of Texas:
"JUNETEENTH. On June 19 ("Juneteenth"), 1865, Union general Gordon Granger^qv read the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, thus belatedly bringing about the freeing of 250,000 slaves in Texas. The tidings of freedom reached slaves gradually as individual plantation owners read the proclamation to their bondsmen over the months following the end of the war. The news elicited an array of personal celebrations, some of which have been described in The Slave Narratives of Texas (1974). The first broader celebrations of Juneteenth were used as political rallies and to teach freed African American^qv about their voting rights. Within a short time, however, Juneteenth was marked by festivities throughout the state, some of which were organized by official Juneteenth committees. "

Millionth English Language Word

Read the full June 10th article to see the millionth word.

An article in the Christian Science Monitor by Matthew Shaer reports that the English language gained it's 1,000,000th word according to the site Global Language Monitor.