Since I have never heard of it, I really don’t know what anyone did special on this day...I never heard obozo mention anything like it...
Family cook outs / bbq, and grocery and retail store sales were about it. And remembering that a [republican] President set the slaves free.
On 2nd thought, if the GOP had real smarts, they would start promoting this day every year reminding everyone that it was a Republican President that ended the demonkraps institution of slavery. That fact can’t be changed as much as the demonkraps, party of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, abortion fo the innocents lie about all the racist moving into the GOP. ROFLMAO Hello, Robert Byrd? Joe “You Ain’t Black” Biden? Need more examples?