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Learn about the history behind Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday that honors the end of slavery in the ...

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June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation ...

Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered ...

June 19 marks Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. It became a federal holiday in 2021 when then-President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth ...

Are you convinced that Philippine Independence was attained on June 12, 1898? Or are you one with the many, including me, who still believe that July 4, 1946 was truly our Independence Day.

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