Posted on Jun 20, 2022
The new Juneteenth federal holiday traces its roots to Galveston, Texas
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."For many in Galveston, Juneteenth is profoundly personal. June Collins Pulliam, director of a local music academy, traces her lineage to 1865. Her great-great-grandparents were Horace and Emily Scull, enslaved to a family named Scull on nearby Bolivar Peninsula.
“My great-great-grandparents and their young children were directly impacted,” she says, “because with this announcement of General Orders No. 3 they were then freed and able to make lives for themselves here in Galveston.”
As a freedman, Horace Scull was a skilled and sought-after carpenter. He built his own house and the houses of other emancipated people in town. His son, R.A. Scull, became a preacher and teacher, and taught in segregated Galveston schools for 52 years.
Juneteenth has come to signify so much for Black Americans throughout the country “but even moreso, I think, to those of us who are right here in Galveston where it happened,” says Pulliam. “It’s something I treasure, something I’m just glad that now the world recognizes it.”
..."For many in Galveston, Juneteenth is profoundly personal. June Collins Pulliam, director of a local music academy, traces her lineage to 1865. Her great-great-grandparents were Horace and Emily Scull, enslaved to a family named Scull on nearby Bolivar Peninsula.
“My great-great-grandparents and their young children were directly impacted,” she says, “because with this announcement of General Orders No. 3 they were then freed and able to make lives for themselves here in Galveston.”
As a freedman, Horace Scull was a skilled and sought-after carpenter. He built his own house and the houses of other emancipated people in town. His son, R.A. Scull, became a preacher and teacher, and taught in segregated Galveston schools for 52 years.
Juneteenth has come to signify so much for Black Americans throughout the country “but even moreso, I think, to those of us who are right here in Galveston where it happened,” says Pulliam. “It’s something I treasure, something I’m just glad that now the world recognizes it.”
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