The Origins of Juneteenth ^35.2%

RadioWest | KUER - 6/16/2026, 2:33 PM

Appeal to Authority 21% - Unattributed Quote 21% - Quote-first Misdirection 21%

Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant in April of 1865, but Confederate generals in Texas kept fighting for weeks, well into June. That’s when General Granger was sent to quell the unrest and tell the formerly enslaved that they were free — that they were now, as historian Annette Gordon-Reed writes, on “the same plane of humanity... more