Juneteenth (1903, 1907, 1908)

[Wilson Gray]

I've never heard the so-called "full form," Juneteenth Day, though, as
y'all know,      I'm a black native of Texas, who was so young when he
celebrated his first Juneteenth that he has no memory of it..

The cite containing the phrase "our colored" reminds me of a couple of
happenings in the Army.

The jukebox had the rock-a-billy tune, Red River Rock, on it. When
Gitte, one of the B-girls, was asked about this, she replied, "We have
that song in all of our colored bars."

One night, Radio East Berlin, the only military station broadcasting
R&B and other black- American music at the time, played the version of
the anti-lynching song, "Strange Fruit," by Billie Holiday. A
colleague exclaimed, "Jesus! I hope that none of our colored GI's are
listening to this!" (He was so accustomed to seeing me around that he
had forgotten that *I* was a colored GI.)

Oddly enough, the best station for black-American music was Radio
Luxembourg.  It even played the at the time apocryphal "If You See
Kay," by Memphis Slim.

-Wilson

On 6/20/06, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
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> OED has 1932 for "Juneteenth"?
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> Juneteenth, n.
> U.S.
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> 19 June, celebrated as a holiday commemorating the emancipation of =20
> African-American slaves in Texas on that date in 1865. Also more fully Junet=
> eenth day.
> Formerly celebrated  chiefly in Texas and other southern states; now more=20
> widespread. =20
> 1932  J. M. BREWER in J.  F. Dobie Tone Bell  Easy 10 The best of=20
> tale-tellers has  been some ex-slave buoyed up by the spirit of a Nineteenth=
>  of June  The=20
> best ofthe  <NOBR>=E2=80=98Junetethe day on which all colored people in the=20=
> South =20
> commemorate the freedom of their race from  slavery.
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>      _Galveston Daily News, The_=20
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> _Monday, June 22, 1903_=20
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> 03-06-22)  _Galveston,_=20
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> 10741+AND+stateid:94+AND+range:1759-1912) =20
> _Texas_=20
> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=3Djuneteenth+AND+stateid=
> :94+AND+range:1759-1912)   bie q-Jlet-jdc  of the tiii'c'e dry's JUNETEENTH=20
> celebration In Houston Is =20
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>      _Galveston Daily News, The_=20
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> _Saturday, June 22, 1907_=20
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> 907-06-22)  _Galveston,_=20
> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=3Djune-teenth+AND+cityid=
> :10741+AND+stateid:94+AND+range:1759-1912)
>   _Texas_=20
> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=3Djune-teenth+AND+statei=
> d:94+AND+range:1759-1912)   ... June- teenth  has come and gone and it=20
> afforded nueh plfMtsnre and fun to our colored  ... June 25 S. S.=20
> ALAMO............Thursday, June 27 S. S. DENVER  .........Saturday, June 23=20=
> J ... Juno=20
> Cherbourg and Hamburg, a, m.; Hnvre,  7 a. m. June; it p. ii. June and=20
> Ijlverpool. a.  ...=20
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>      _Galveston Daily News, The_=20
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> _Saturday, June 20, 1908_=20
> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=3Djuneteenth+AND+date:19=
> 08-06-20)  _Galveston,_=20
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> 10741+AND+stateid:94+AND+range:1759-1912) =20
> _Texas_=20
> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=3Djuneteenth+AND+stateid=
> :94+AND+range:1759-1912)   The no groes of  San Antonio are holding=20
> "JUNETEENTH" celebration a Union Park =20
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