President Trump reschedules Tulsa rally to June 20 after facing criticism over Juneteenth overlap
over Donald Trump's choice to hold his first rally since the coronavirus lockdowns in Tulsa, Oklahoma, — the site of one of the worst massacres of African Americans in the country's history — on Juneteenth, the president announced he would change the date of the event.
He announced the rally will now take place Saturday, June 20, rather than June 19, or Emancipation Day, the holiday commemorating the date in 1865 when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger traveled to Galveston, Texas, to inform residents that President Abraham Lincoln had freed the slaves and that slave owners had to comply with the Emancipation Proclamation.Trump had stirred controversy for his decision over the first of several big campaign events.
Trump has never held a rally in Tulsa, and Oklahoma is a state he won by 36 percentage points in the 2016 election.
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