UAW President Ray Curry Statement on Juneteenth
June 20, 2022
June 20, 2022
DETROIT, Michigan, June 20 (TNStalk) -- The United Automobile Workers issued the following statement by President Ray Curry on June 18, 2022, on Juneteenth:
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On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which freed more than three million enslaved people in the United States, mostly in the Confederate states. It took another two and a half years and the surrender of the Confederate army before it became a reality for the enslaved peopl . . .
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On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which freed more than three million enslaved people in the United States, mostly in the Confederate states. It took another two and a half years and the surrender of the Confederate army before it became a reality for the enslaved peopl . . .