Celebrate Juneteenth!
By Vince Leibowitz on Jun 19, 2007 in Activism
Formerly a uniquely Texas celebration, Junteenth is now celebrated nationwide.
Th holiday commemorates the day official word of the Emancipation Proclamation first reached Texas—in June of 1865—well after the war had ended.
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