Change has come to America. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama embody the culmination of 400 years of racial and social progress, not only for African-Americans but for the nation. Why is that so, and what can Texas lawyers learn from this change? To understand the present, we must examine some of the legal history around race in America.
Race has been an integral part of American history since the introduction of slavery into the English colonies in the early 1600s. Some 250 years later, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, abolishing slavery in the United States. Union Major General Gordon Granger read the proclamation on Galveston Island on June 19, 1865.
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