Juneteenth celebration features world's longest soul train line
Juneteenth celebration features world's longest soul train line

Juneteenth celebration features world's longest soul train line

The holiday marks June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, at the end of the Civil War with an order declaring the state’s enslaved people to be free with “absolute equality.” By then, 2 1/2 years had passed since the Emancipation Proclamation declared the freedom of enslaved people in the South.

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