I don't care for the name. Should we refer to 911 as Sepleventh?? Or independence Day as the Jurth???? Regardless, I would prefer that this holiday be the date on which the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Due to the slow communications of the day, slaves were "freed" on different days throughout the US. In some ways their descendants aren't even free today. But the common date would be when Lincoln signed the EP, not when a small city in Texas got the word. (yes, I realize the news was deliberately withheld)
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