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NFL to Observe Juneteenth as a Holiday, Will Close Offices

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Also Read: NFL Admits 'We Were Wrong' About Player Protests - but Doesn't Mention Colin KaepernickNFL will recognize Juneteenth as a holiday this year, Roger Goodell told the league in this email this morning: pic.twitter.com/sS0DYYk46c— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) June 12, 2020Though President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was signed into order in 1863, slavery still persisted throughout the Civil War in the South.

June 19, 1965 marks the day that Union general Gordon Granger told enslaved African-Americans in Texas that they were now free men.

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