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Write a letter to your state legislator giving him/her your opinion about creating a state holiday on November 4th (the official date Maryland freed their slaves).

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Juneteenth is the celebration of Black American emancipation that started in Texas, marking the date in 1865 that enslaved people there were told they had been freed two years earlier.

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