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Juneteenth: A Children's Story | 
Happy Juneteenth 🖤
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/19/nx-s1-5436967/juneteenth-underground-railroad-qui...
“For Edith Edmunds, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing on Juneteenth.”
Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth,"
