Juneteenth: Freedom Day
Muriel Miller Branch
64 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0525652221
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Language: English
Publish: April 1, 1998
Provides the story of how this holiday, marking the Emancipation Proclamation, spontaneously began on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, and grew from there into a nationwide celebration of freedom among African Americans.