Today is Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates emancipation of slaves in Texas, where slavery’s end didn’t begin until two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect.
From 1936-1938, the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project took oral histories from former slaves across the nation, including these 11 people in Dallas, Texas. Some of the stories are available online at the Library of Congress.
Cato Carter: Photo via Library of Congress
Julia Daniels: Photo via Library of Congress
Mose Hursey: Photo via Library of Congress
Andrew Goodman: Photo via Library of Congress
James Johnson: Photo via Library of Congress
Mary Ellen Johnson: Photo via Library of Congress
William Moore: Photo via Library of Congress
Laura Redman: Photo via Library of Congress
Callie Shepard: Photo via Library of Congress
Emma Watson: Photo via Library of Congress
Lula Wilson: Photo via Library of Congress
