Mindy Johnston
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Mindy Spitzer Johnston is Managing Editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. She previously served as Britannica's Senior Digital Media Assets Manager and Visual Materials Archivist. She has degrees in American history from Northwestern University and DePaul University. Obsessed with primary sources and documentary photography, Mindy spent 20 years working in museums, libraries, and archival collections before joining Britannica in 2018.
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On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and a contingent of some 2,000 Union troops entered Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No. 3, a proclamation to alert the enslaved Black residents of the state that they were free. Juneteenth (a combination of the words June and nineteenth) arose…
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