Juneteenthn.
/ˌdʒuːnˈtiːnθ/, U.S. /ˌdʒunˈtinθ/ U.S.
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.
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1890 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 22 May 4/4 For Galveston to send abroad for orators for its coming ‘Juneteenth’ is like carrying coal to Newcastle.
1932 J. 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.
1971 M. S. Harper Hist. is your own Heartbeat 38 Juneteenth, baby, we free, free at last: black man, I'm a black man.
1997 Harper'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.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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