The American Civil War began., President Abraham Lincoln officially issued the Emancipation Proclamation., Hundreds of thousands of Black people in Texas remained enslaved due to a lack of Union soldiers., Gordon Granger announced that all enslaved people in the state of Texas were free., Juneteenth (Jubilee Day) celebrations spread across the US as freed people moved to new communities., Juneteenth celbrations declined during the civil rights movement., There was a revival of Juneteenth celbrations in the 1970s., Juneteenth became an official holiday in the US..

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