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Three Reasons to Celebrate Juneteenth

June 19, 2025June 19, 2025 / Daniel D. Isgrigg, Ph.D. / Leave a comment

Juneteenth is a little known holiday to many Americans. But it actually has a long history and has been celebrated for generations. In 1865 at the end of the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved Africans in the South. A year later, on June 19th, 1866, the order to free the slaves reached Texas, … Continue reading Three Reasons to Celebrate Juneteenth

About Me

Daniel Isgrigg, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Pentecostal Historian at Oral Roberts University. He has been an Assemblies of God minister for over 20 years. His research interests are early Pentecostalism, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and Oral Roberts.

Some of his publications include Pentecost in Tulsa: The Revivals and Race Massacre that Shaped the Pentecostal Movement in Tulsa, Imagining the Future: the Origin, Development, and Future of Assemblies of God Eschatology, Receiving Scripture in the Pentecostal Tradition, as well as many articles on a variety of topics. See all publications here.

Daniel received a B.A from Oral Roberts University in 2000 and a M.A. in Theological & Historical Studies from ORU in 2007. In 2017, Daniel earned a PhD in Pentecostal History at Bangor University, Wales UK.

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