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Iowa communities around the state are holding events Thursday to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday.
June 19, 1865, marks the day the Emancipation Proclamation was finally enforced by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger in Texas at the end of the Civil War. For slaves in Texas, their unshackling came more than two years after their freedom was ordered by…
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