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What Is Juneteenth? Everything You Need to Know about This Important Piece of American History
Blavity via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoMany schools around the nation do not teach students about Juneteenth or other important events in...
Juneteenth: Where to celebrate in the Historic Triangle
Daily Press· 43 minutes agoTriangle starting today and into next week. The holiday commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day that...
What does the name 'Juneteenth' mean? When is Juneteenth? All about the federal holiday
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJuneteenth, the country's youngest federal holiday, arrives next week. The day commemorates the day...
Juneteenth events 2024: Where to go to celebrate the holiday over the weekend
WSB Cox articles via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoWhile President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation more than two years earlier,...
Freeing the last slaves: Juneteenth celebrations on Cape Cod include music, food, history
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoThe Bourne Historical Society planned the celebration in partnership with the Bourne-Wareham Race...
Opal Lee gets keys to new home on family’s Fort Worth lot
Dallas Morning News· 14 hours agoOpal Lee hadn’t seen inside her new home Friday morning in Fort Worth as she rocked in a white chair...
Wichitans share the significance of Juneteenth
KSNW Wichita via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoWICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Juneteenth is known as a day of freedom. It signifies the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery more...
Juneteenth 2024: Your guide to celebrations in DC, Maryland and Virginia - WTOP News
WTOP Washington· 9 hours agoA little history: in 1865, a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved African...
Juneteenth: 5 events on the South Shore. Music, food, history and games
Gannett via AOL· 23 hours agoGen. Gordon Granger informed people in Galveston, Texas, that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation two years earlier had freed enslaved ...
Essay winners: Juneteenth lets us remember nation's past while striving for better future
Lansing State Journal via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJust a few months prior, Abraham Lincoln had announced the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing those...