Mr. Juneteenth

ID: 2866 ~ Source: Ueckert, Steve. “State Rep. Al Edwards of Houston,” photograph. Houston Chronicle. April 30, 2020. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Al-Edwards-former-state-rep-behind-bill-that-15234850.php.
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Mr. Juneteenth

Known to some as “Mr. Juneteenth,” House Representative Al Edwards worked as a primary advocate for the holiday’s recognition by the Texas State Legislature. Even more, Edwards was a lifelong civil rights activist who protested injustice throughout his career and life.

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By Allie Roberts
On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, heard the news of their freedom. More than two years earlier, President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation to establish the freedom of enslaved people in Confederate States…