06/19/2020
The Harvard College Democrats acknowledge and celebrate Juneteenth. We encourage you all to sign up to join us for 100 days of action for racial justice at tinyurl.com/100actions, a campaign led by multiple Harvard Students and Organizations, but is open to everyone. Read the full statement and see more details here:
harvarddems.org/statements/2020/6/19/harvard-college-democrats-juneteenth-letter
Dear Harvard Dems, Today we celebrate Juneteenth. On June 19th, 1865 — two months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union — Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that the Civil War had ended and that enslaved Black people were free. This an...