Clarence Page: The Historic Latta Plantation controversy reminds us what Juneteenth can teach us
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Jun 17, 2021
3 minutes
After more than a century and a half of underappreciation, the emancipation celebration known as Juneteenth is bringing out the regional differences in various ways, some of which make me wonder whether the Civil War really ended in 1865 — and if so, who won.
“Juneteenth,” also called Freedom Day and Emancipation Day, among other names, marks June 19, 1865, the day that Union troops in Galveston, Texas, notified enslaved African Americans that the Civil
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