Juneteenth's roots go back to the document that declared freedom for the enslaved people in Texas

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(9 Jun 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ++MUSIC CLEARED FOR EDITORIAL USE++ ASSOCIATED PRESS Dallas – 9 June 2025 1. Various of General Order No. 3 handbill document on display 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Karl Chiao, Dallas Historical Society: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ “It's the only known copy that we're aware of, of the general order number three. When Lincoln freed the slaves in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation, that was kind of for the rest of the country. It was hard for war to get around. So by