Juneteenth (a combination of June nineteenth) celebrates the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to free the state’s some 250,000 enslaved people. Despite the Emancipation Proclamation being signed over 2 years prior, slavery had continued in Texas because it lacked a strong Union presence to enforce emancipation. It wasn’t until June 19, 1865, when General Granger arrived in Texas with Union troops — including many who were Black and formerly enslaved — that people in Te

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The Silent Films Era The term silent film is a retronym—a term created to retroactively distinguish something from later developments. Early sound films, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were variously referred to as the "talkies", "sound films", or "talking pictures". The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is older than film (it was suggested almost immediately after Edison introduced the phonograph in 1877), and some early experiments had the projectionist manually adj