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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.
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 ...
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.
In conversation with theGrio, illustrator and Meghan Markle collaborator Christian Robinson discusses the inspiration behind the 2024 Juneteenth Google Doodle […]
Peoples helped make Juneteenth recognized by the City of Portland in 1972. Mayor Sam Adams and Amanda Fritz declared Peoples the "Mother of Juneteenth" in 2011. [1] [2] Juneteenth became an observed holiday for the City of Portland and Multnomah County employees in 2020, as part of a resolution to address structural racism.
Juneteenth, a combination of the words June and 19th, is also known as Emancipation Day. It commemorates the day in 1865 - after the Confederate states surrendered to end the Civil War - when a ...
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Juneteenth is a holiday celebrated on June 19 commemorating the final end of slavery in the rebelling states just after the end of the Civil War. As celebrations commence across the country, here ...