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Honoring Juneteenth: How Fashion & Photography Were Used As an Act of Resistance 

When the Emancipation Proclamation took effect in 1863, slaveholders in Texas continued to deny freedom to enslaved people. Two and a half years later, on June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, and Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3, promising that the Emancipation Proclamation would be fully enforced. On that day, […]