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Derryn Moten

Dr. Derryn Moten is the acting chair of the history department at Alabama State University and one of the foremost experts on the Modern Civil Rights Movement and Southern American Culture. He can be reached at dmoten@alasu.edu

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Liberation had finally reached the shores of Texas. The date June 19, 1865,became Juneteenth, the oldest annual Black freedom celebration in the United States.