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Commentary: Juneteenth Usurped the Emancipation Proclamation
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Carol M. Swain -- Political Scientist and Commentator Carol M. Swain -- Political Scientist and Commentator
For Immediate Release:
Dateline: Nashville, TN
Thursday, June 20, 2024

 

How did Juneteenth, once just a regional celebration, become a federal holiday instead of the far more significant Emancipation Proclamation? The latter freed over 3 million slaves, including the ones in Galveston, Texas that didn’t know of their freedom. Let’s walk through some of the facts of the latter’s superiority over the former before grappling with the politics of our times.

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ABOUT CAROL M. SWAIN

Carol Swain (Ph.D.) is an award-winning political scientist and former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities. She is the author or editor of 10 books, including Be The People: A Call to Reclaim America’s Faith and Promise and The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration.
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