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Juneteenth
Juneteenth signifies the day that Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas – June 19, 1865 – to order the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, 2½ years after it took effect. Like Cinqo de Mayo, which commemorates the Mexican Army’s victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862, not Mexican Independence Day, which is Sept. 16, many Americans are mistaken about [...]
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