WATCH: Virtual Juneteenth Celebration 2020 Wheeling Heritage Media August 20, 2020 On June 19th, 1865 enslaved individuals in Galveston, Texas finally learned they were free. Two and a half years after the emancipation proclamation, and months after the end of the Civil War. This date, shorte...
Wheeling’s Twentieth Man: 250 Years of Race Relations in the Northernmost Southern City of the Southernmost Northern State Seán Duffy July 6, 2020 Writer’s note: It's 2020, and we find ourselves still fighting the same injustices that a prior generation fought more than half a century ago. Why? If we really knew our history, we might understand. But...
