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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.
Jan. 1, 2024, marks 161 years since the day the Emancipation Proclamation was announced by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. At the time, the Civil War had been raging for three years.
The holiday—sometimes referred to as Juneteenth Independence Day, Freedom Day, or Emancipation Day—was deemed a federal holiday in 2021 when President Biden signed it into legislation on June 17.
1 August, Emancipation Day in Jamaica is a public holiday and part of a week-long cultural celebration, during which Jamaicans also celebrate Jamaica Independence Day on 6 August 1962. Both 1 August and 6 August are public holidays. Emancipation Day had stopped being observed as a nation holiday in 1962 at the time of independence. [24]
April 16 – (Emancipation Day) – District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. [citation needed] May 9 – General David Hunter declares emancipation in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. [citation needed] May 19 – Lincoln rescinds Hunter's order. [citation needed] July 17 – Confiscation Act of 1862 frees confiscated slaves.
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 ...
Updated July 14, 2016 at 7:41 PM ... On this day 153 years ago in 1862, ... The Emancipation Proclamation switched up the Civil War a lot. It called for the formation and recruitment of black ...
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