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Monthly Mitzvah - June: Reflect, Celebrate, and Participate in Community for Juneteenth, June 1-30 What is Juneteenth? The Emancipation Proclamation declared enslaved people in the US legally free on January 1, 1863, but the law wasn’t enforced in places still under Confederate control. On June 19, 1865, 2,000 troops arrived in Galveston, TX to enforce […]