Celebrating Black history and Black futures
Candid
JUNE 17, 2022
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas learned that they had in fact been granted their freedom in 1863 and had spent two additional years in bondage at the hands of exploitative plantation owners. HBCUs were established to provide higher education opportunities to Black Americans.
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