Juneteenth History: How the Holiday Started and Evolved Over Time

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Juneteenth History: How the Holiday Started and Evolved Over Time

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Juneteenth, the nation's most recent federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States and has a history going back to the 1860s.
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