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Juneteenth (the eleventh American Federal Holiday)
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The name "Juneteenth" references the date of the holiday, combining the words "June" and "nineteenth."
On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger led the Union Soldiers to Galveston, TX, to announce the end of the war and the freedom of all enslaved people.
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