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Observed on June 19, the nation’s newest federal holiday commemorates the end of slavery in Texas.
Here’s how it came to be celebrated nationwide.
At a gathering to celebrate Juneteenth, a participant waves the Pan-African flag in Galveston, Texas. The holiday commemorates the end of slavery in Texas—two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed people who had been enslaved elsewhere in the U.S.
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