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Welcome!

What is Juneteenth?

It commemorates June 19^th, 1865, when the abolition of slavery was announced in Galveston, Texas, by General Granger of the Union Army. This signaled freedom for enslaved African Americans in Texas, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln.

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