The actual date is June 19. Juneteenth is consider the longest-running African American holiday, honoring the end to slavery. The day’s name is a combination of “June” and “nineteenth,” the date in 1865 when federal troops arrived in the Texas city of Galveston more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation to ensure that all enslaved people were freed.
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Juneteenth now a paid holiday in Stockbridge - Atlanta Journal Constitution
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