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Juneteenth is America’s second Independence Day, and commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Though President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, it wasn’t until June 19, 1865, that Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops came to Galveston, Texas, to inform the community that enslaved people were free. The […]