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On MLK Day, Too Many Slaves are Not Yet Free
On June 19th, 1865, Federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to declare the emancipation of all Americans, of every slave being free.
The Emancipation Proclamation had been issued two-and-a-half years earlier by President Lincoln, but as a result of the geographic fractures created by the war, many strongholds of institutionalized racism existed. Texas was the final area of this nation to surrender to this particular bend of the arc of the moral universe toward racial justice—and someone had to forcefully bring them the news they'd refused to come to terms with: the war was over.
159 years…
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