(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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7. Freedom did not come at the “snap of a finger” for everyone in Texas. Some people who should’ve been freed continued to work through the harvest season because their masters withheld this announcement to reap more wages out of their slaves. T
6. In the 1870s, a group former slaves pooled $800 together through local churches to purchase ten acres of land and create Emancipation Park to host future Juneteenth celebrations in modern-day Houston.
16. Juneteenth is also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day
10. The first Juneteenth celebration took place on June 19, 1866, after only former slaves in Galveston celebrated the day they were set free.
8. When freedpeople tried to celebrate the first anniversary of the announcement a year later, they faced a problem: Segregation laws were expanding rapidly, so there were no public places or parks they were permitted to use.
15. Juneteenth was made an official holiday in the state of Texas in 1980.
5. Lincoln and the Union army used slavery as a political motive to justify strengthened military endeavors against the Confederacy. Black soldiers were able to fight for the Union when Lincoln passed the Proclamation. Though they faced discrimi
11. Strawberry soda pop was once a popular drink associated with celebrating the day.
1. Part of General Order No. 3 encouraged the newly freed people to remain with their past owners. “The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect a
12. Some cities and groups have Miss Juneteenth contests.
14. Juneteenth is the oldest known holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the US.
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4. Though much of the language in the Emancipation Proclamation suggests otherwise, Lincoln’s primary objective was not to ameliorate the lives of those in bondage. Rather, his intent was preserving the Union.
2. The National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF), founded in 1994, recognizes the same colors found in the U.S. flag: red, white, and blue, showing that the formerly enslaved were and are Americans.
3. After a year, freed slaves conducted minimal celebration of Juneteenth because of growing segregation. Areas such as parks, business establishments, and schools were all segregated into white and colored areas. As a temporary remedy, all forme
9. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862. It went into effect on January 1, 1863. However, slaves were not set free in the Confederacy until Union army was able to cover in and take over.
