Growing up in Texas in the 1950s and 60s I knew about Juneteenth.

[CTyankee]

My mother simply explained it to me as a holiday for black people. She wasn't really upset about it. It was just their holiday and not ours so that was that.

I really wish I had an education in my segregated schools about what happened in Texas on Juneteenth. What caused it, why it is important to everyone.

However, I graduated from high school in the year that Brown v. Board of Education was handed down. Segregation was just a fact of our lives. I had to learn about it when I went off to college.

[Aristus]

1. I don't know what happened, but

I grew up in Texas in the early 1970's, and I didn't hear about Juneteenth until I was an adult. I attended DoD schools, and they were usually pretty good about teaching American history, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

[Hangingon]

2. I grew up in Texas

I remember Juneteenth. It was just a holiday for black people. I don’t remember any one being mad or upset. Started school in ‘47 and graduated in ‘60. Went to a private religious high school and we had black students.