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New York lawmakers make Juneteenth a state holiday, pass COVID-19 measures

New York lawmakers make Juneteenth a state holiday, pass
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The Democrat-led chambers voted to create two new public holidays celebrating Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved African-Americans that the Civil War had ended, and Abolition Commemoration Day, marking the end of slavery in New York.

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