We Insist! (subtitled Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite) is a jazz album released through Candid Records in December 1960. It contains a suite that composer and drummer Max Roach and lyricist Oscar Brown had begun to develop in 1959 with a view to its performance in 1963 on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. The cover references the sit-in movement of the Civil Rights Movement. The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album one of its rare crown accolades, in addition to featuring it as part of its Core Collection. - Wikipedia

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🗓 This Day in History — September 22, 1862
Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
He told the Confederacy: end the rebellion, or your “property” will be declared people.

On January 1, 1863, he made good on that promise.
Not because the South listened.
But because freedom had to win.

Give it up for freedom. Always.

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✧ I Have a Dream ✧

"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by the American civil rights movement activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. In the speech, which was delivered to more than 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of th...

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President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated April 14, 1865. It was still another two months until General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX to announce the Emancipation Proclamation that had been signed nearly 2.5 years earlier on 1. January 1863.

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On June 19, 1865, enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally learned of their #freedom—two years after the #EmancipationProclamation. #Juneteenth is a reminder that #justice delayed is justice denied.

Today, we honor the resilience of all who have fought for freedom. But we also recognize that the struggle is ongoing for #truefreedom: #economicjustice, #votingrights, #healthcare, #livingwages, and #dignityforall.

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