What is Juneteenth?

Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) celebrates the 1865 day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to free the last remaining enslaved people in the United States. Although the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed two and a half years earlier, there was minimal enforcement of the proclamation in Confederate states, allowing slavery to continue. Juneteenth is one of the oldest Black holidays and honors the end to slavery in the United States.

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