Thursday marks the 160th anniversary of 250,000 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas being informed of their freedom two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Celebrations for ...
Juneteenth, the country's youngest federal holiday, arrives this week. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the ...
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