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Juneteenth

Civil Rights Movement focused the attention of African Americans on expanding freedom and integrating

1960s
U.S.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement focused the attention of African Americans on expanding freedom and integrating. As a result, observations of the holiday declined again (though it was still celebrated regionally in Texas).


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