Since moving to Texas almost a year ago, I've learned just token amounts of information about what makes this state so proud. Today's holiday is one of those things.
According to Wikipedia, "Juneteenth commemorates the news on June 19, 1865, that slaves in Texas were free. The general order, read on the steps of Ashton Villa at 2328 Broadway in Galveston, came almost three years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862."
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