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  • 2020-06-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Trump Brag That He 'Made Juneteenth Very Famous'? (en)
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  • On June 19, 1865, over two months after the surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army at Appomattox Court House, Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, as leader of a Union force sent to squash pockets of Confederate resistance in far away Texas, issued a decree saying: Known as Juneteenth, the day has been celebrated locally in Black communities across America since 1865 as the day when news of emancipation reached the furthest pockets of slavery in post-Civil War America. Awareness of the holiday has been hampered, in part, by its exclusion from educational curriculum and textbooks. In recent years, there has been a push to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. In a move that received widespread condemnation, U.S. President Donald Trump scheduled his first campaign rally in over 100 days to be held on June 19, 2020, in Tulsa, Oklahoma — a city infamous for being the site of one of the worst post-Civil War acts of violence against Black Americans in United States history. Facing backlash, Trump changed the date of the rally to June 20, 2020. In a June 18, 2020, Wall Street Journal interview, Trump was asked about his decision to move the date of the rally. In Trump’s response, he argued the controversy he created was a good thing because he made the holiday famous (despite being unaware his own administration had previously released statements about the holiday): Because Trump stated that he made Juneteenth very famous, the claim is true. (en)
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