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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.
(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 ...
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, which falls on June 19, is a national holiday this week. Juneteenth, short for "June Nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take ...
June 19 is the 170th day of the year ... Juneteenth officially became a ... American educator and diplomat, 8th United States Ambassador to Togo (d. 2022) 1923 ...
In 2022, S.C. senators approved a bill giving state employees a choice of observing Confederate Memorial Day. According to a Greenville news story, the bill began as a proposal to add Juneteenth ...
Juneteenth Day of Observance, 2021 June 18, 2021: June 23, 2021 ... Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, 2022 May 4, 2022: May 9, 2022: 87 FR 27905 ...
"Beginning in 2022, the Postal Service will recognize the Juneteenth National Independence Day as a holiday eligible to full-time and part-time career employees," the USPS wrote on their website.