JUNETEENTH CELEBRATING THE END OF SLAVERY … Learn More About Holiday
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June 19, 2020
The holiday — which is also called Freedom Day, Liberation Day or Jubilee Day — is the oldest celebration in America of the end of slavery, commemorating June 19, 1865.
That’s the date Union General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas and informed a group of slaves that the Civil War had ended … and they were free.
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