Alternatives will be closed Thursday, June 19th in observance of Juneteenth. June 19th marks the date in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to ensure the last enslaved people in the United States were set free, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
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