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The History of Juneteenth

Co-written by Nick Rascona Juneteenth is an annual holiday that has been celebrated by African Americans since the late 1800s. The word Juneteenth is a combination of June and nineteen which is the day in 1865 that Union soldiers (led by Major General Gordon Granger) went to Galveston, Texas to announce that the war was […]

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