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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 ...
“There were Black people that were free before June 19, 1865, free before December, 1865 [when the 13th Amendment passed], free before April 15, 1865, when the Civil War ended, and free before ...
When did Juneteenth become a U.S. holiday? Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States on June 17, 2021—joining days such as Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday and the ...
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
The Jeffery Quad truck, and from the company's take-over by Nash Motors after 1916, the Nash Quad, greatly assisted the World War I efforts of several Allied nations, particularly the French. [85] The U.S. first adopted Quads in the USMC's occupations of Haiti , and the Dominican Republic , from 1915 through 1917, [ 86 ] as well as in the 1916 ...
The Emancipation Proclamation was supposed to take effect on Jan. 1, 1863, freeing "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State," but it didn't free everyone. It wasn ...
The complete end of slavery actually came on June 19, 1865, about two months after Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia at the end of the Civil War.