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What is Juneteenth? Holiday marking Emancipation Proclamation takes on extra importance in 2020

N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY Comments Off on What is Juneteenth? Holiday marking Emancipation Proclamation takes on extra importance in 2020

On June 19, 1865, a soldier informed Galveston, Texas, that President Abraham Lincoln two years earlier had freed slaves in "rebel" states.

       
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