What is Juneteenth in the US and how is it celebrated?
- Posted on June 17, 2025
- By The Independent
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What is Juneteenth in the US and how is it celebrated?
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
