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    • Why Juneteenth, the U.S.'s Second Independence Day, Is a Federal Holiday

      Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days ago

      ...were enslavers who were aware of the implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation, it wasn’t until June 19, 1865, that it was actually enforced [by] the Union Army,” wrote Mary Elliott, curator of American slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture...