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What is Juneteenth & why is everyone talking about it?

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is Juneteenth actually?”Related: My family is due reparations. The government is still trying to take their land.The short answer is that the Emancipation Proclamation was finally read in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865 – the true end of slavery in the U.S.

It took more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the proclamation for Union soldiers to enforce it.The next year, former slaves gathered to read the Emancipation Proclamation in public.

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