horselightning
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Why Juneteenth represents freedom better than July 4 for many Americans
More than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, on June 19, 1865, federal troops went to the Confederate holdout in Galveston, Texas. The Union soldiers read the proclamation aloud, ensuring that all slaves were free and marking the end of slavery in the United States.

BS. Here the blacks go twisting things again. Juneteenth is dem's way of getting black votes.