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Parade participants show off their pride in the then-new national holiday during the Covington Juneteenth Parade in 2021. Archives | The Covington News

decree had freed the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state.

The newly freed people then began calling the day “Juneteenth,” according to information from the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.

Texas officially made June 19 a state holiday in 1980 and total of 48 states and Washington,

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