DES MOINES, Iowa — The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, but some parts of the country didn’t receive word of it until Union troops arrived. June 19th, 1865, is the date that Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved African Americans that they were free. Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021 […]
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