IAM DISTRICT 142 CELEBRATES JUNETEENTH
Dear Sisters and Brothers: On June 19, 1865, Union Army troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, bringing news of President Abraham Lincoln’s emancipation of enslaved Africans almost two years earlier. That day, more than 250,000 African Americans tasted freedom for the first time. These newly freed people began commemorating the day they called Juneteenth, sometimes […]
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