304 Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
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Airwave Media
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audio
Podknife tags |
History
Interview
Society & Culture
USA
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History
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Jun 08, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:53:50

Juneteenth is a state holiday that commemorates June 19, 1865, the day slavery ended in Texas. Over the last decade, a push to make Juneteenth a national holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States has gained momentum.

What do we know about Juneteenth and its origins?

Annette Gordon-Reed, an award-winning historian at Harvard University and Harvard Law School, is a native Texan and she joins us to discuss the early history of Texas and the origins of the Juneteenth holiday with details from her book, On Juneteenth.

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