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Neat News 2021-171 (added 2021-06-20)
National holiday to commemorate end of slavery
Public Domain by Tim Ervin, National Parks Service
| Juneteenth, 19 June, has become a national holiday in the USA to commemorate the abolition of slavery. Two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, black people in Texas learned on that day in 1865 that they had been freed. related: #juneteenth |