the Moulin Rouge Hotel<\/a>. The hotel and casino opened in May of 1955 in West Las Vegas as the casino town’s first desegregated gambling property.<\/p>\nThe Moulin Rouge closed only six months later after incurring bankruptcy. But the casino facilitated the early conversations between city officials, hotel proprietors, and African American leaders who eventually ended the prohibition of Blacks inside Strip casinos.<\/p>\n
Biden Juneteenth Statement<\/b><\/h2>\n
Biden on Friday issued a Juneteenth proclamation acknowledging the historic anniversary of Texan slaves being freed. Granger’s General Order No. 3 came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln declared all enslaved persons free on January 1, 1863, through his own executive order and presidential proclamation.<\/p>\n
Biden said in his decree that, “The poisonous ideology of racism has not yet been defeated — it only hides.” The president referenced the May 14 mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket where a gunman targeted Black Americans.<\/p>\n
“As we confront the awful reality of yet another gunman massacring innocent people in the name of hatred, racism, and fear, we must meet this moment with renewed resolve. We must stand together against white supremacy and show that bigotry and hate have no safe harbor in America,” Biden stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is Juneteenth, the annual observance recognizing the 1865 freeing of enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Tx., who were the last to learn of them emancipation. While celebrations date back to 1866 — the year after Union Army General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3, a legal decree ordering that all remaining enslaved people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":217956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,81886],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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