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Juneteenth: A New Holiday
Rasul Berry: Juneteenth is a day in which Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865. He says it was two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation had announced that slavery in the Confederate states was now over. "There was an incredible jubilation and celebration," he says. 'It's immensely more complicated than that'