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Indianapolis isn't hosting a parade this year, but events are scheduled throughout the week to commemorate the date the last enslaved people learned they'd been freed: June 19, 1865. That includes a ...
Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. That was more than two months after ...