Why Juneteenth is a rallying cry for reparations

Jones wordsseemlikethe type of statement anewlyliberatedBlack person would have made onone ofthoseJuneteenth daysin Texas. On June 19, 1865,Black people inGalvestonlearned of their freedom.This occurred nearly two years after the Emancipation Proclamationissued by President Abraham Lincoln that freed enslaved Blacks in the Confederate States of Americaand six months before the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified to officially end slavery in the United States.