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[email protected] VOLUME 73 NUMBER 41 SERVING THE BLACK COMMUNITY WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR SINCE 1947 June 17 - 23, 2021 AP Explains: Juneteenth end of slavery in the US By JESSE J. HOLLAND WASHINGTON (AP) with the freed slaves of Granger and his Union — A holiday that is spread- Galveston, Texas. troops arrived at Galveston ing across the U.S. and Although the with news that the war had beyond, Juneteenth is con- Emancipation ended and that the enslaved sidered the oldest known Proclamation freed the were now free. celebration commemorat- slaves in the South in 1863, Granger delivered ing the ending of slavery in it could not be enforced in General Order No. 3, which the United States. many places until after the said: “The people of Texas It was originally cele- end of the Civil War in are informed that, in accor- brated on June 19, the day 1865. dance with a proclamation that Union soldiers in 1865 Laura Smalley, who was told enslaved African freed from a plantation Continue Slavery Page 2 Americans in Galveston, near Bellville, Texas, Texas, that the Civil War remembered in a 1941 FILE - In this June 19, had ended and they were interview that her former 2017, file photo, T.J.