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Episode: Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom (2022) by Sharon Dennis Wyeth and Kim Holt (Illustrator)
Description: Some call it Freedom Day; some call it Emancipation Day; some call it Juneteenth. Learn more about this important holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States in this Step 3 History Reader.On June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, a group of enslaved men, women, and children in Texas gathered. US General Gordon Granger read an order proclaiming that Blacks were no longer enslaved; they were free. People danced, wept tears of joy, and began to plan their new lives. Juneteenth became an annual celebration that is observed by more and more Americans...