The contrast between former President Donald Trump's final Juneteenth in the White House and the lead-up to President Joe Biden's first is stark.
: Juneteenth, which on June 19 commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
"We are gathered here, in a house built by enslaved people," said Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to hold the title. "We are footsteps away from where President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and we are here to witness President Joe Biden establish Juneteenth as a national holiday.
In mid-June of 2020, all of those factors — Tulsa, Juneteenth, the waves of protest and the Covid pandemic — posed problems for then-President"I made Juneteenth very famous," Trumpafter moving the date of the rally. "It's actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it."
The Confederate Army under Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox in Virginia on April 9, 1865, a capitulation that led to the end of the Civil War. But it wasn't until June 19 that Union forces under Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, to deliver"The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free," the order reads.
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