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Juneteenth marks the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the state. This event took place more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, but due to the remote location of Texas and the resistance of slaveholders, the news of freedom did not reach the enslaved population immediately.

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Juneteenth marks the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the state. This event took place more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, but due to the remote location of Texas and the resistance of slaveholders, the news of freedom did not reach the enslaved population immediately.