Juneteenth is the nation’s youngest federal holiday. In fact, the city of Tampa only declared it a holiday in 2022.

But Juneteenth’s significant history dates back more than 150 years.

It honors the day the last enslaved African Americans in Texas were freed on June 19, 1865 — two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

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