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June 17th

2 events recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 2015
    The Record

    Charleston church massacre

    A white supremacist enters Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, sits through most of a Bible study, then shoots nine congregants dead. Among them is State Senator Clementa C. Pinckney. Within weeks Governor Nikki Haley orders the Confederate battle flag removed from the State House grounds.

  2. 2021
    Context

    Juneteenth becomes a federal holiday

    President Joe Biden signs the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making June 19 a federal holiday commemorating the 1865 announcement that enslaved people in Texas were free.

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