Juneteenth's 156th anniversary takes place on June 19, 2020. The holiday commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas. Advocates want Juneteenth to be recognized as a federal holiday.
The seventh-generation Texan is roaming the state in her van, registering voters and digging into her family's history in the long struggle for voting rights.
‘Lamentably,” Martin Luther King Jr. told us in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, “it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust.