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A guide to what the Juneteenth holiday is and how to celebrate it

A guide to what the Juneteenth holiday is and how to celebrate it

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed -- after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

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