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Juneteeth

August 20, 2026

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Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read President Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation declaring enslaved people free. Although Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1…

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