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HUNTINGTON — Juneteenth, to be observed this year on June 20, commemorates the day the last slaves were freed by Union General Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865, in Galveston,
Charleston businessman Howard Swint holds a Confederate flag, with the center of it burned, in front of the Stonewall Jackson statue on the Capitol grounds in Charleston on Jan. 22, 2021. Swint was protesting Gov. Jim Justiceâs refusal to address calls to remove the statue, along with a bust of Jackson in the Capitol Rotunda.
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