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- 3. who announced the news
- 4. made it a holiday
- 7. texas law
- 9. date of june nineteenth
- 10. celebrates end of slavery
- 12. organization founded in 1896
- 14. former slave
- 17. song about june nineteenth
- 18. african american holiday
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- 1. organization that promotes juneteenth
- 2. help spread the word
- 5. oldest known celebration
- 6. dish made with red beans and rice
- 8. first state to make june 19th a holiday
- 11. who issued the emancipation proclamation
- 13. celebrates end of slavery in the british
- 15. last state to recognize
- 16. first slave who wrote account of june 19th