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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.
Since it was designated a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth has become more universally recognized beyond Black America. Many people get the day off work or school, and there are a plethora of ...
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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 ...
The holiday was established federally in 1983 and first officially celebrated in 1986; efforts to create the holiday faced strong opposition and some southern states paired the new holiday with a holiday honoring the Confederacy; Juneteenth, observed on June 19, commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas in June 1865 ...
Juneteenth became an official state holiday in Texas on January 1, 1980, led by African American state legislator Al Edwards. New Jersey made Juneteenth an official state holiday on June 25, 2020.
The U.S. government was slow to embrace the occasion — it was only in 2021 that President Joe Biden signed a bill passed by Congress to set aside Juneteenth, or June 19th, as a
With this reckoning came a renewed interest in Juneteenth, a holiday that has long been celebrated by Black Americans for more than 150 years, as it commemorates the end of slavery in the United ...