it is not the Emancipation Proclamation that should be celebrated instead of Juneteenth. Both were incomplete, only applying in limited geographical areas.
it is rather the date the 13th amendment was ratified, which occurred in December 1865, which applied emancipation to 100% of the USA and ended all state-supported slavery in the USA forever.
Agree!
But was it really ratified?
Something tells me that the framers of the constitution never visualized bayonets pressed into the backs of legislatures *FORCING* them to vote the way they were told by Washington DC would represent a valid amendment process.
All those puppet state governments had no legal authority to ratify anything.