World Library Foundation Newsletter Dept.
2021
The World Library Foundation's newsletter for June 2021 (Volume 5, Issue 6). The Day Freedom Came to Texas: the history of Juneteenth, from General Gordon Granger's General Order No. 3 at Galveston on June 19, 1865, and the slow spread of the news to some 250,000 enslaved Texans, to the first celebrations, the Emancipation Park bought in Houston in 1872 and the state holiday of 1980. Also in this issue: the Executive Director's message, "News That Travels"; Greenwood, 1921, on the Tulsa Race Massacre of May 31-June 1, 1921, at 100; and from the Library Exhibits, Chicago 1893, on the first Ferris wheel and The Reason Why.
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