Having been born on Juneteenth has always brought a sense of pride to me. My mother taught me about the history and significance of the 1865 day in Galveston. What people in Texas did not know was that on Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln, in his Emancipation Proclamation speech, had freed enslaved people in the Confederate States.
Since Texas was so far from Washington D.C., and due to a l…
