A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as "involuntary relocation" during second grade social studies instruction, but board ...

Another 19th of June approaches and Southeast Texans get ready for the parades, barbecues and ball games celebrating the 149th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Texas. News traveled ...

Second-grade classes in Texas would use the term “involuntary relocation” to describe slavery under a new proposed social studies standard — leading to objections from education experts.

AUSTIN, Texas — Public schools in Texas would describe slavery to second graders as “involuntary relocation” under new social studies standards proposed to the state’s education board.

An absurd example of the lengths of this avoidance was the proposal by a group of Texas educators in 2022 to have slavery referred to as “involuntary relocation” during second-grade social ...

Beginning with this school year, students in Texas schools will learn that Texas and the 10 other states that made up the Confederacy seceded from the Union over the issue of slavery. But some ...

Slavery did not become constitutionally legal in Texas until 1836. At that time, the Mexican army was defeated in the Texas Revolution by the Army of the Republic of Texas at San Jacinto.

Why did it take Texas so long to end slavery? Even after 1865, it persisted in other states. ... Ph.D., during the Celebrate Freedom - Juneteenth Family Fun Day event Saturday, June 10, ...

Union Gen. Gordon Granger said as much when he read General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, in front of enslaved people who were among the last to learn of their legal freedom.

Washington — Former President Joe Biden criticized "ongoing efforts to erase history" during a Juneteenth Celebration Service at a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Galveston, Texas — and ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Public schools in Texas would describe slavery to second graders as “involuntary relocation” under new social studies standards proposed to the state’s education board ...