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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.
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 ...
Known officially as National Memorial Day in Alabama, [172] and Memorial Day / Decoration Day in Idaho. [142] Observed with Jefferson Davis' Birthday, and known officially as National Memorial Day / Jefferson Davis' Birthday, in Mississippi. [143] June 19 - Juneteenth; July 4 – Independence Day; September 1–7 (1st Monday) – Labor Day
U.S. President Joe Biden signed the bill creating the holiday in 2021. Juneteenth, long a regional holiday in the U.S. South, rose in prominence following protests in 2020 over police killings of ...
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Juneteenth (15 P) L. Louisiana state holidays (1 P) M. ... Public holidays in South Dakota; Statehood Day (Hawaii) Susan B. Anthony Day; T. Temperance and Good ...
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 ...
South Dakota had its own committee for the United States Commission on Civil Rights (CCR) established in 1957. The South Dakota Civil Rights Council was founded in 1961 to promote civil rights and address racial prejudice. [26] Martin Luther King, Jr. arrived in Sioux Falls in January 1961 and was honored at a reception at the Sheraton Hotel. [27]