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Juneteenth, n. U.S.
Brit. |ˌdʒuːnˈtiːnθ|, U.S. |ˈˌdʒunˈˌtinθ|
[Blend of June n. and nineteenth n.]
19 June, celebrated as a holiday commemorating the emancipation of African-American slaves in Texas on that date in 1865. Also more fully Juneteenth day.
Formerly celebrated chiefly in Texas and other southern states; now more widespread.
1932J. M. Brewer in J. F. Dobie Tone Bell Easy 10 The best of tale-tellers has been some ex-slave buoyed up by the spirit of a Nineteenth of June celebration—the ‘Juneteenth’—the day on which all colored people in the South commemorate the freedom of their race from slavery. 1971M. S. Harper History is your own Heartbeat 38 Juneteenth, baby, we free, free at last: black man, I'm a black man. 1997Harper's Mag. Jan. 38/2 As a black born and raised in the North, I not only never celebrated Juneteenth Day, I had never heard of it until I was informed in barbershops by black southern immigrants. |