Juneteenth, a portmanteau of June and 19th, also is known as Emancipation Day. It commemorates the day in 1865, after the Confederate states surrendered to end the Civil War, when a Union general arrived in Texas to inform the last group of enslaved African Americans of their freedom under President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.source https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/what-is-juneteenth-and-how-are-people-commemorating-it-this-year/articleshow/76422139.cms
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