By Ralph E. Moore Jr. Special to the AFRO Caldwell “Shajid” McMillan Jr. is very proud of roots traceable to his Juneteenth ancestors. Although President Abraham Lincoln declared slaves to be free on January 1, 1863, two years after that Emancipation Proclamation, word got to enslaved Texans on the 19th of June in 1865. The […]
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