African Americans Take Pride in Celebrating “JUNETEENTH”
An Essay by Shirley Sprinkles, Ph.D. In all the years that I was growing up in Tucson, throughout the forty’s and fifty’s, I never heard of a holiday called, “Juneteenth.” I don’t remember going to picnics where the women were wearing clothing such as head-rags, sunbonnets, straw hats and long skirts. Nor do I remember …
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