In honor of Juneteenth, which celebrates when enslaved people in Texas heard about the Emancipation Proclamation, we are sharing a brief history of Martin Luther King, the Second Emancipation Proclamation, and President Kennedy.

At the end of 1961, Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders wrote to JFK, urging him to use the full power of his office and issue a second Emancipation Proclamation to coincide with the centennial of Lincoln’s proclamation. 📄: jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/a…