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Why is Wisconsin celebrating a Texas event? An event commemorating the fact that the slaves in Texas heard about the Emancipation Proclamation 2.5 years late?
33 posted on 06/20/2007 11:29:49 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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Juneteenth is celebrated by people all over the world ... even, apparently, in Wisconsin.

As the last place where the Emancipation Proclamation was read, it deserves to be noted.

51 posted on 06/20/2007 1:01:56 PM PDT by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [..the history we should remember ...])
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