Visiting original passage: Juneteenth History: How the Holiday Started and Evolved Over Time
Juneteenth History: How the Holiday Started and Evolved Over Time
newsweek.com •
Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.
Juneteenth, the nation's most recent federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States and has a history going back to the 1860s.
Why It Matters
June…
