"...Jubilee"

For Independence Day

A dear FB friend sent me a

Juneteenth flag.

On June 19th 1865 

Major General George Granger

in command of the Union Army of the Cumberland.

Publicly proclaimed General Order Number Three.

This freed the last Slaves held by the former

Confederacy in Galveston Texas.

Originally called by the freed Slaves

"Jubilee Day".

It came in time to be known as

"Juneteenth".

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Below

"Lift Every Voice, and Sing"

The Negro Anthem.

Written by James Weldon Johnson in 1900.