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Second Chance Clinic: Restoration of Rights. Restore Your Rights. Reclaim Your Future.
Presented by the Memphis Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee; Providing Free Legal Advice and information for Expungements and Restoration of Rights.
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Juneteenth Celebration
Celebrate this national holiday with the NAACP-FayetteSommerville branch and West TN for the People!
Free food for the first 50 adults! Children eat free.
Juneteenth (June 19, 1865) marks the day when:
Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas
He announced General Order No. 3
This enforced the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas
Roughly 250,000 enslaved people in Texas were informed they were free
Importantly:
The Emancipation Proclamation had been issued in 1863
But it could not be effectively enforced in Confederate-controlled areas until Union forces arrived
So Juneteenth represents:
the last large-scale enforcement of emancipation in the United States