EPISODE · Jun 17, 2026 · 49 MIN
The Origins of Juneteenth
from RadioWest
Enslaved African-Americans in Texas didn’t learn they’d been freed until weeks after the Civil War officially ended — when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston to break the news.
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