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New Federal Holiday and Flag Observance: Juneteenth

Recognition a long time overdue.
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Juneteenth (June 19, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day) celebrates the formal end of slavery in the United States. It is a state observance in several states already, first made a state holiday in 1980 in Texas. After the Civil War was already over, slave holders refused to release their …