Word: juneteenth
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...Many people say that "Juneteenth" (June 19) should be made a legal holiday because this was the day when a) The slaves were freed in the U.S., b) The slaves were freed in Texas, c) The slaves were freed in Jamaica, d) The slaves were freed in California, e) Martin Luther King was born, f) Booker T. Washington died. Answers...
...mostly from Chicago and Detroit, were bounced from the 15-acre tent city for drinking, stealing and, as the Rev. James Bevel put it, "beating on our white people." Organizational snafus forced the leaders to put off a big march scheduled for this week until June 19 (known as "Juneteenth Day" for the anniversary of the freeing of the slaves in Texas in 1865). They also sent out an emergency summons to Bayard Rustin to handle the march, which may prove to be their smartest move yet; Rustin is the master organizer who turned the 1963 March on Washington into...