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Thursday, June 19, 2025
All civic learning topics for this day
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Texas Slaveholders Deliberately Hid Freedom for Two and a Half Years
Civil RightsHistorical Precedent& 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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Hegseth Systematically Erases Black Military Heroes from Pentagon
Civil RightsNational Security& 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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