Freedom day News
Once a regional tradition, Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in Texas finally learned they were free, has become a national holiday.
Juneteenth is annually on June 19
Juneteenth is a commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States
Abraham Lincoln, signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed over 3 million slaves
World Freedom Day is observed on 9th November every year
This day marks the fall of the Berlin wall in now Germany
US president George W. Bush established as a federal observance in 2001 for this day
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