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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 days agoTheWrap offers a brief history lesson on Freedom Day, which commemorates the nation's full abolition of slavery and became a federal holiday just three...
Juneteenth explained: What is the holiday, why was it created and how should it be celebrated? - The...
The Morning Sun· 4 days agoIt marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 days agoKnown as Juneteenth in Texas, Emancipation Days symbolized America’s attempt to free the enslaved...
After more than one try, West Virginia became a state of the union
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJun. 20—Today is West Virginia Day, the anniversary of West Virginia becoming the nation's 35th state. To my knowledge, West Virginia is the only state that was created by seceding from an existing ...
Edward Robert McClelland: The Illinois debate that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoHere, McClelland takes us to Ottawa, Illinois, for the famed first senatorial debate between Lincoln...
Letters to the Editor: Readers discuss lack of Grand Island Cemetery upkeep, Willie Mays
Grand Island Independent· 10 hours agoThis year with new graves being covered with new sod, the rest of these areas look so bleak and...
Louisville Juneteenth Festival celebrates freedom, history of African American community
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe event, which has food, vendors and entertainment, will continue until the evening with an after...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 3 days agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States...
"When you know you're free; it takes it to a whole, entirely different level."
FOX 4 News· 2 days agoJune 19th, 1865, is a crucial part of American history. It was the day that a general went to Galveston, Texas, to share the news that all slaves were free under President ...
Observing Juneteenth with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
NPR· 3 days agoThe troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which President Abraham Lincoln< ...