Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom

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Open Hand Publishing, LLC, 2002 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 32 pages
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JUNETEENTH: A Celebration of Freedom expresses the jubilation that occurred on June 19, 1865 when African American people in Texas were the last to be freed from the horrors of US slavery, over two months after the end of the Civil War and two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

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Dedicated to
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Emancipation Proclamation
12
The Black Church
19
Copyright

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TitleJuneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom
MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection
AuthorCharles Andrew Taylor
Illustrated byCharles Andrew Taylor
Editionillustrated
PublisherOpen Hand Publishing, LLC, 2002
ISBN0940880687, 9780940880689
Length32 pages
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