{"id":116768,"date":"2023-06-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/?p=116768"},"modified":"2023-06-16T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T19:42:00","slug":"guest-column-juneteenths-path-to-a-national-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/2023\/06\/116768\/guest-column-juneteenths-path-to-a-national-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Column: Juneteenth&#8217;s path to a national holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s said that a \u201cjourney of a thousand miles begins with a single step.\u201d That\u2019s certainly true of Opal Lee, a retired school teacher and mother of four from Fort Worth, Texas, who decided to walk from her home to Washington, D.C., to request that Juneteenth be made a national holiday, one that all Americans would celebrate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/2023\/06\/116751\/editorial-juneteenth-reminds-us-freedom-is-everything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Juneteenth<\/a> wasn\u2019t anything new for her and African Americans in Texas and across the nation. It had been a long-held celebration since Gen. Gordon Granger and the Union army arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln signed on Jan. 1, 1863, declaring all slaves in the rebel-held states to be \u201cforever free.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This news, however, took two and half years to reach Galveston, where Granger marched through the streets to deliver the news: \u201cThe people are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights of property, between masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them, become that between employer and hired labor. The freed are advised to remain at their homes, and work for wages.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, more than 250,000 Black people were still enslaved in Texas. Copies of the ordinances were posted in public places and at the Negro Church on Broadway in Galveston, renamed the Reedy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church. And the enslaved acknowledged their freedom with great joy and jubilation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first major celebration was held June 19, 1866, by the freedmen of Galveston. The aptly named \u201cJubilee Day\u201d was celebrated with drinks and food at picnics, where people played games and music and danced. In addition to celebrating freedom and cultural heritage, this was a day to learn about their rights as American citizens, grass roots politics, voter registration and the importance of education. It wasn\u2019t until the 1890s that Juneteenth became the official name of this holiday, honoring the day when the news of the \u201cforever free\u201d was finally heard by thousands of enslaved people in Galveston.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since it took 2.5 years for the news to spread from Washington, D.C., to Galveston, Texas, Opal Lee decided in September 2016 that she would walk 2.5 miles to raise awareness of the holiday that had mainly been celebrated by African Americans. \u201cJuneteenth is a day of remembrance for all people, not just for the descendants of American slaves,\u201d she famously said. \u201cPeople need to know that it\u2019s not a Black thing, or a Texas thing. Freedom is for everybody; if it\u2019s not, we\u2019re not free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, Ms. Lee, then 90,decided to walk the 1,400 miles from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, all the way to Washington, D.C., hoping \u201csomebody would notice a little old lady in tennis shoes.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They did. As she made her way through the formerly Confederate states, walkers joined to support her, and more than 1.5 million people signed her Change.org petition in support of making Juneteenth a federal holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years later, on June 15, 2021, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to pass the bill that makes Juneteenth a paid federal holiday. President Joseph Biden signed Juneteenth National Independence Day into law two days later. Ms. Opal Lee was there to witness this historic moment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her optimism is even more admirable considering the racial violence she and her loved ones have experienced in this country: She was a child when a white mob vandalized and burned down her family\u2019s Fort Worth home, which was in a predominantly white neighborhood, on June 19 \u2014 Juneteenth \u2014 in 1939. Threatened yet undaunted, her parents relocated and rebuilt their lives. She attended segregated schools and knew where to sit on public transportation to avoid trouble.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Lee told The Fort Worth Star Telegram in a 2002 article that the public pool was opened to Black people on Juneteenth \u2014 and then drained and refilled for white people. She has experienced so much in her long life, including a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While she did not win the award, she did get her wish: Juneteenth is a federal holiday and \u201cMs. Opal Walks\u201d continue to happen annually to raise awareness of the importance of this holiday for all Americans. As she has said, \u201cNo one is free until we\u2019re all free.\u201d And for that, we must all celebrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/suffolktimes.timesreview.com\/2022\/01\/2021-community-leader-of-the-year-rev-natalie-wimberly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rev. Wimberly<\/a> is pastor of Clinton Memorial A.M.E. 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