NEWS SPECIAL: Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, has been around officially for almost as long as the mid-1860s, and officially became a state holiday in Texas in 1980, when the last slaves were freed there on June 19, 1865. But as just one more measure of how this particular era of racial awareness and reevaluation has blossomed and persisted, this ABC Juneteenth special is, so far as I can recall, the first broadcast network news special ever produced about this date and event.

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R. Dunn

Happy Juneteenth!
~brought to you by the Republican Party :-)

(remember for a century; end of Civil War to 1960s the Democrat Party was racist & anti-Civil Rights... read a History book)

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