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6-17-16
It’s Time to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday
by Karl Jacoby
This was the day – June 19, 1865 – in 1865 when slaves in Texas finally were freed.
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This was the day – June 19, 1865 – in 1865 when slaves in Texas finally were freed.