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Monday, June 19, 2023

Juneteenth: history of a holiday

 NY TIMES online article/background piece

https://www.nytimes.com/article/juneteenth-day-celebration.html

First observed in June 1865 at Texas

union general Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston to tell

enslaved African Americans of their freedom and that the

Civil War had ended.

Details at above weblink

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