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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 ...
Juneteenth celebrations began in Texas and other Southern states as early as 1866, Berry says. Many Texans pushed for the holiday to be recognized by the state— a designation that finally came ...
Juneteenth isn't just a day off work, it represents an important chapter in American history. ... So, it wasn't until two and a half years later, June 19, 1865, that Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, a ...
(Reuters) - Juneteenth, a day that marks the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, is always observed on June 19 each year. It became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, following the signing of a ...
The Juneteenth flag is a symbol for the Juneteenth holiday in the United States. The first version was created in 1997 by activist Ben Haith and that early version was displayed in 1997. The present version was first flown in 2000.
As Juneteenth rolls around, many Americans are celebrating the ending of slavery in the United States — and some for […] The origins of Juneteenth: History, celebrations and more Skip to main ...
The holiday, often called America's second Independence Day, marks the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in Texas.