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Taking the kids: Let’s celebrate Juneteenth

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Taking the kids: Let’s celebrate Juneteenth

• Eileen Ogintz, Tribune Content Agency
• Jun 11, 2026
• Jun 11, 2026
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The Museum Tower at the Obama Presidential Center is seen in Chicago, on June 3, 2026. The dedication ceremony for the center will take place on June 18, 2026, and will open to the public on the following day on the Juneteenth holiday. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

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Juneteenth celebrations. Washington DC, USA.

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The message took a long time to get to the destination. More than two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, and months after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Union troops finally arrived in Galveston, Texas, announcing the end of slavery. It was June 19, 1865.

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