The first Juneteenth, the nation’s biggest celebration of Black freedom, took place when enslaved Africans in Texas found out the Civil War had ended — two and a half years after President Lincoln’s executive order had ended slavery in Texas.pic.twitter.com/Q5mKf2AobH
5:00 PM - 15 Jun 2019
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