UT Arlington history chair plays important role in new ‘online encyclopedia’ of African American history in Texas

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas State Historical Association launches a new “Handbook of African American Texas” today with the help of UT Arlington History Department chairman W. Marvin Delaney, as the nation remembers Juneteenth, or June 19, 1865. That’s the day that Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation and freed all remaining slaves in Texas. The state historical association invited Dulaney, an associate professor of history, to write the lead essay and other significant portions of the new online handbook. He authored entries for the organization’s pioneering “Handbook