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Many Americans celebrated Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. For generations, black Americans have recognised the end of one of the darkest chapters in US history with joy...
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WEATHERFORD — James Gray knelt on a sweltering Monday afternoon to pick up the top half of a headstone sitting beside nearly a dozen makeshift PVC crosses in a cemetery
Signs telling the world Galveston is the birthplace of Juneteenth were a long time coming.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, freeing the slaves. However, word spread slowly through the South as the Union army advanced during the Civil War.