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The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining "June" and "nineteenth" — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.

Four short years after the recognition of a holiday commemorating freedom, it feels like Black people are less free.

Juneteenth is the longest-running African American holiday, and it became a federal holiday a few years ago. Here's what's open and closed Thursday.

African Americans had likely known themselves to be legally free before General Order No. 3, but acting on this knowledge was difficult.