27 Ways To Thoughtfully Celebrate Juneteenth
Your guide on celebrating and honoring Juneteenth — on June 19th, and all year long.
Juneteenth , short for June 19th, commemorates the day the last remaining enslaved people in the U.S. — in Galveston, Texas — received word that the Civil War had ended and they had been liberated by the federal orders in President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
The year was 1865 — two and a half years after Lincoln's proclamation.
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