It commemorates the day federal troops arrived to enforce The Emancipation Proclamation in Texas some two years after it was issued. More broadly, though, it celebrates the end of chattel slavery.
To my mind, it celebrates the beginning of true freedom because as moral philosophers have long known no one is free until everyone is because oppression ensnares the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
She became an educator and an activist and saw the day become a federal holiday last year. She told her local station KTVT It's not a Texas thing or a Black thing. It's an American thing.
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