About News Dean Solomon: Juneteenth Reflections Jun 19, 2020 Ian Solomon Dean Solomon: Juneteenth Reflections Juneteenth, like America, is an unfolding, unfinished story. It is a story about Black slaves in Galveston, Texas, learning the news on June 19, 1865, that major Confederate armies had surrendered to Union Troops and that Black people in Texas were legally free. Union General Gordon Granger read aloud the wartime Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln two and a half years earlier. Even if some plantation owners tried to conceal the news until after the harvest, “Freedom Day” had finally arrived. This story is embedded within a longer story. A story of heroic efforts to end the dehumanizing international slave trade and abolish everywhere its American cousin of racialized chattel slavery. Anti-slavery crusaders were active from before the American Revolution and continued through the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in December 1865. Heroes of this story include former slaves Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and numerous allies like William Lloyd Garrison and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner (the inspiration for my second son’s name). Read in Medium Ian H. Solomon Ian H. Solomon is dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, where he leads a multidisciplinary faculty in creating new knowledge and developing leaders who can solve humanity’s greatest policy challenges. Trained as a lawyer, Solomon is a devoted student and teacher of both negotiation and conflict resolution. Read full bio Related Content Ian H. Solomon Sesame Workshop President is 2022 Jefferson Medalist in Citizen Leadership News Sherrie Rollins Westin, president of Sesame Workshop and a 1980 graduate of UVA, has been named this year’s recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership, an award selected by the Batten School. Pavilion X Exhibit Highlights Slavery History of Its Former Residents News “This exhibit is but a small token of my gratitude for the opportunity to give voice to the ghosts of yesterday,” wrote Ian Solomon, the pavilion’s current resident. Stay Up To Date with the Latest Batten News and Events Subscribe
Ian H. Solomon Ian H. Solomon is dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, where he leads a multidisciplinary faculty in creating new knowledge and developing leaders who can solve humanity’s greatest policy challenges. Trained as a lawyer, Solomon is a devoted student and teacher of both negotiation and conflict resolution. Read full bio
Sesame Workshop President is 2022 Jefferson Medalist in Citizen Leadership News Sherrie Rollins Westin, president of Sesame Workshop and a 1980 graduate of UVA, has been named this year’s recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership, an award selected by the Batten School.
Pavilion X Exhibit Highlights Slavery History of Its Former Residents News “This exhibit is but a small token of my gratitude for the opportunity to give voice to the ghosts of yesterday,” wrote Ian Solomon, the pavilion’s current resident.