Holiday
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Read Like a President
Posted about 1 year ago by Lindy Gellings
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Biographies, Fiction, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, celebrations, Fiction, history, Holiday, nonfiction
“Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.” Barack Obama Throughout our nation’s 247-year history, only 47 men have held […]
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What Is Juneteenth?
Posted about 4 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Events, History and Preservation, Holidays, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library
| Tagged with Emancipation Proclamation, Freedom Day, Holiday, Independence Day, Juneteenth
News of Slavery’s End Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19, is the oldest national celebration of slavery’s end in the United States. On June 19, 1865 Union Major General Gordon Granger […]
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