What is Juneteenth? A look back at the history of the US holiday

Whoopi Goldberg explains that even though Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1 1863, a quarter-million enslaved people in Texas didn’t have freedom until June 19, 1865.

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