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Uncommon archival footage from a Beinecke Library collection displays a 1925 procession honoring Juneteenth, the occasion that marks the June 19, 1865, entrance of the U.S. Army in Galveston, Texas, to uphold the then 2.5-year-old Emancipation Proclamation.


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