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2. Juneteenth flag - Wikipedia

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   The most recognizable symbol of Juneteenth is the Juneteenth flag. [8] The flag was first flown in 2000, at Boston's Roxbury Heritage State Park. [10] Ben Haith initiated the Boston flag raising. [4] Beginning in 2020 in the United States, several state governors ordered the Juneteenth flag to be raised over their capitol buildings on June 19.

3. File:Juneteenth Celebration program, 1980 (49998870952).jpg

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   Item 1, folder "Juneteenth," Seattle Center Promotion and Publicity Records (Record Series 7613-01), Seattle Municipal Archives. English: Cover of program for Juneteenth celebration at Seattle Center, 1980

4. File:Recognition of Juneteenth before 2021.svg - Wikipedia

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   State recognition of Juneteenth as a holiday in the United States, prior to its federal recognition in 2021. Spanish Reconocimiento del feriado "Juneteenth" entre los estados de EE.UU., antes de su reconocimiento como feriado nacional.

5. Juneteenth explained: What is the holiday, why was it created ...

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   For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...

6. Juneteenth - Wikipedia

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   Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.

7. Explainer-What is Juneteenth and how are people marking ... - AOL

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   It became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, following the signing of a bill by President Joe Biden. Long a regional holiday in the South, Juneteenth rose in prominence across the country following ...

8. The beginner’s guide to celebrating Juneteenth - AOL

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   Last week, the White House kicked things off early with a concert on the South Lawn for Juneteenth and Black Music Month. Singers Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle were among the the lineup of well ...

9. List of African-American holidays - Wikipedia

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   Juneteenth National Independence Day 2021 Commemorates General Order No. 3, the legal decree issued in 1865 by Union General Gordon Granger enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation to the residents of Galveston, Texas , at the end of the American Civil War .