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'Becoming free in our country': Bay Area communities celebrate Juneteenth
ABC7 News· 1 day agoIt marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed - after...
How Trump’s pet policies are playing
Politico· 13 hours agoThe Senate is out. FRIDAY AROUND THE HILL *crickets* TUESDAY’S ANSWER: Charles Horowitz was the first person to correctly answer that Abraham Lincoln was ...
Manitowoc’s Henry Baetz: a German immigrant, Union soldier and public servant who was Wisconsin's...
Herald Times Reporter via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFremont, presidential candidate of the newly organized Republican Party. During the presidential...
Belle-Clair Fairgrounds was once site of Union Army camp during the Civil War
Belleville News-Democrat· 22 hours agoThe grounds which serve as the site of Belle-Clair Fairgrounds was used very much as it is today 170 years ago, as a place for agricultural fairs and other events. Camp Koerner — named after ...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIts origins date back to June 19, 1865, when the last group of people enslaved in the southern U.S....
National Civil Rights Museum offering free admission on Juneteenth
FOX 13 Memphis· 2 days agoThe free admission not only celebrates Juneteenth and its history but also allows museum visitors to...
Why I Celebrate Juneteenth - And Response
The Chattanoogan· 2 days agoThroughout history slavery has existed. On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued by executive order the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation ...
‘Juneteenth’ celebration encourages education in North Las Vegas
KLAS articles via Yahoo News· 1 day agoCraig Knight said. The day marks the end of slavery in the United States, specifically the moment...
LARRY KUDLOW: Donald Trump is pulling together a working-class coalition of all colors and stripes
FOX Business· 1 day agoSecond, it was Abraham Lincoln’s and then Ulysses S. Grant’s Republican Party that was the party of...
Lawmakers, advocates and local leaders commemorate Juneteenth at the state capitol
FOX61· 1 day agoThe holiday commemorates the day Union soldiers marched to Galveston, Texas in 1865, to inform...
