The SanityPrompt

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Monday, June 20, 2005

If You Are Looking for Another Holiday

Here's one that should be on every American calendar.

Juneteenth: "mark[s] the day in 1865 that news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached slaves in Galveston, Texas - two years after President Lincoln had signed it. "