30 Minute Podcast

The Emancipation


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This episode explores community advocacy and activism with featured guest:

Torri Hicks -"The Floetrist"

https://linktr.ee/TheFloetrist

Correction Note: At the 1 min_56 sec mark of Episode 1 of the podcast, it was meant to say 2 yrs 6 months, not 6 months.

9/22/1862: Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation (EP) that would go into effect 100 days later

12/31/1862: first "WatchNight"- where enslaved people waited for EP to go into effect at struck of midnight to become freed men & women

1/01/1863: Emancipation Proclamation went into effect 

6/19/1865: Juneteenth (federal order read by Union army general Gordon Granger in Galveston, proclaiming that all slaves in Texas were free)


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