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Thursday, June 19, 2025
All civic learning topics for this day
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Texas slaveholders hid emancipation from enslaved people for 2.5 years
Civil RightsConstitutional Law& 1 more
On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston to announce that enslaved people were free—over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation because Texas slaveholders had concealed and defied federal law.
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Defense Secretary Hegseth removes Tuskegee Airmen and Colin Powell from Pentagon displays
Civil RightsHistorical Precedent& 1 more
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a "passive approach" to Juneteenth while scrubbing Tuskegee Airmen, General Colin Powell, and hundreds of minority veterans from Pentagon websites and Arlington Cemetery.
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