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Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
On this day in Labor History the year was 1865. That was the day that 2,000 Union soldiers marched into Galveston, Texas. They carried with them the news that those enslaved were now free. The Confederate General, Robert E. Lee had actually surrendered more than two months earlier.
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