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Remember What They Told You To Forget: The Campaign To Erase Black History
BlackPast.org Board Member and newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. shares his concerns about the prospect of Black history being lost...
Opal Lee (1926- )
Opal (Flake) Lee is a retired teacher and activist who is considered the “grandmother of Juneteenth.” Flake was born on...
Juneteenth [Children’s Edition]
This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here What happened: Juneteenth is...
Juneteenth: The Growth of an African American Holiday (1865- )
The Juneteenth Minidoc In the article below, historian Quintard Taylor describes the origins and evolution of the Juneteenth holiday...
