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June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox Court House, by General Robert E. Lee and concluded with the surrender of the CSS Shenandoah on November 6, 1865, bringing the hostilities of the American Civil War to a close. The First Juneteenth occurred on June 19, 1865, nearly two years after President Abraham Lincoln emancipated enslaved Africans in America, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas with news of freedom. More than 250,000 African Americans embraced freedom by executive decree in what became known as Juneteenth or Freedom Day. Legally, the war did not end until a proclamation by President Andrew Johnson on August 20, 1866, when he declared "that the said insurrection is at an end and that peace, order, tranquillity, and civil authority now exist in and throughout the whole of the United States of America. Major General Gordon Granger led the Union Soldiers to Galveston, Texas, to announce the end of the Civil war and the freedom of all enslaved people. Jim Crow sat perched over the event horizon waiting in the wings, which brought darkened (non-sheltering) skies not only for the hot pocket of suddenly emancipated persons of color, who would subsequently experience immense prejudice upon their embarkation as (no pun intended) "masters" of their own selves while attempting to eke out a living dirt poor, yet resourceful hunkering down on plantations, which property eminent domain of federal government, (a political entit characterized by union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions), whereby said body electric codified, fortified, and indemnified manifest destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, the idea that United States destined— by God advocates believed— to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent. Though institution of slavery supposedly rendered null and void at the stroke of a pen (courtesy Abraham Lincoln) well actual legislation passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. Nevertheless merciless abuse heaped upon the negro despite their legal status being Granted leeway to persevere life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Recognition as equal brethren among collective soul of American fraught with bitter aversion, condemnation, and ejaculation of physical and verbal violence against people of color, whose melanin enriched complexion birthrights rendered hidebound severely limited inalienable rights as declared in Declaration of Independence, now still utter abhorrence regarding treatment of those proud enterprising people, whose once storied African past left in tatters leaving sparse threads woven together by diligent dogged research nsync with twenty first century technology to allow, enable and provide opportunity to stitch together a more complete tapestry and spiritual fusion of shackled ancestors. Hard fought (videre licet tooth and nail) gains won on bloody battlefields and boardrooms also witnessed the unfortunate tragic sacrifice of additional courageous lives linkedin to pursuit of desegregation ushered commencement of Civil Rights Movement a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement not only for people of color, but other mentally, physically and spiritually challenged in the country, nevertheless election day November fifth 2024 promises to exhume the ghosts of yesteryear courtesy nine hundred page tome Mandate for Leadership laying bare (I make no bones about said door stopper of Trumpist tract) to take figurative hatchet and chop away sacred coveted freedoms, whereby significant progressive gains will be rescinded towards a predominant swath of people transforming the land of milk and honey into a frightful dystopian nightmare.
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