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155th Anniversary of Juneteenth

Content and video from Google YouTube https://youtu.be/GNEPwwv56DY

"Today’s video Google Doodle, illustrated by Los Angeles-based guest artist Loveis Wise and narrated by actor and activist LeVar Burton, honors the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth. Short for “June Nineteenth,” Juneteenth marks the true end of chattel slavery across the United States— which didn’t actually occur until 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Specifically, it marks the day when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas (one of the westernmost points in the Confederate South) finally received news of their liberation."  Google

• Go behind-the-scenes of the Doodle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipodBEnW9Hk
• Learn more about this video: https://www.google.com/doodles/155th-anniversary-of-juneteenth

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Commencement Address, Columbia University, 1950.

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