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Emergency One joins the nation in recognizing Juneteenth, the United States’ oldest celebration of the end of slavery.  On January 1st, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln, grappling to lead a country at war with itself, issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation. This was an executive action that declared legal freedom to the enslaved Black Americans living in […]

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