Google has marked the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth with a new Doodle
In the video clip, LeVar Burton narrates the lyrics to classic hymn"Lift Every Voice and Sing," colloquially known as the Black national anthem.
"We wanted to take people through the experience of gaining freedom as a Black person in America. And to see how, across generations, that freedom has been a push and pull," said Google art director Angelica McKinley in a behind-the-scenes clip about the Doodle's creation."You can see in the Doodle from the moment we step into that first Juneteenth that happened in 1865 to today, there's been that ebb and flow of freedom's won, backtracking and then pushing forward.
Originally a state holiday in Texas, Juneteenth commemorates the reading of General Order No. 3 by Union Major General Gordon in the city of Galveston, ending the practice of slavery in the state. While President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation nearly two and half years earlier, the freeing of enslaved Black people had been a slow and stubborn process in the isolated, southernmost state of the Confederacy.
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