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What is Juneteenth?

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Air Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Juneteenth commemorates the day Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take possession of the state and enforce the emancipation of its slaves. 

Source: Wikipedia

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