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Juneteenth and the Broken Promise of 40 Acres and a Mule

2020-06-19 16:26:11| National Farmers Union

By Hannah Packman, NFU Communications Director For many Black Americans, Juneteenth is a day of celebration. Observed on June 19th, the holiday commemorates the day that the last slaves were freed in the United States in 1865 two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln ordered their independence with the Emancipation Proclamation and two months after the […]

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