Article 60CY1 7 Books to Help Teach Kids About Juneteenth

7 Books to Help Teach Kids About Juneteenth

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Angela Johnson
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This weekend, the country will celebrate Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the official end of slavery in the United States, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Although people have celebrated Juneteenth since 1865, Texas was the first state to make it a holiday in 1980. And it only became...

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