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Juneteenth: Celebrate Freedom

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:44:18
Publish Date: 2021-06-07 08:00:00
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Juneteenth is an annual holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. Commemorating June 19, 1865, the day a group of enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they were free — some two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. 

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