Juneteenth International is a push by "Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor to connect the dots of the International slave trade. America was not an isolated event and the slave rebellions were fueled by rebellion else where such as Haiti and the 1831 Rebellion, the British Empire Abolished Slavery.

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor started talking about Juneteenth while the President of African American Cultural Society in 1996. Realizing that there is no event that brings Black people from all walks of life to be involved. Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor created a Juneteenth event that allowed Black people from low economic Black groups to celebrate our freedom along with allies. Due to Covid, Juneteenth carries on virtually to encourage the Black community to stay alert and be safe.

About two and a half years after Lincoln issued the proclamation and just over two months after the war ended, federal troops entered Galveston, Texas, on June 19th, 1865 (about an hour southeast of Houston). Led by Major General Gordon Granger (Union Army), these troops arrived to assume control of the state and to guarantee that all enslaved residents were freed. On that day, Granger issued General Order No. 3 to notify Texans of the Civil War’s end, enforce President Lincoln’s proclamation, and inform the roughly 250,000 enslaved people of their freedom:

Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor has been doing events geared towards celebrating, and encouraging event since he was a student at Springfield Technical Community College since 1996 where he created took over the African American Cultural Club and renamed it the African American Cultural Society. The first event put on was "The Beat Goes on Event" in honor of Stokely Carmichael to honor his death and life's sacrifices. This event served to educate the surrounding Black Community and our Allies. Since then Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor has gone on to do Black History, Kwanzaa, and Juneteeth events.

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