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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.
Juneteenth National Independence Day 2021 Commemorates General Order No. 3, the legal decree issued in 1865 by Union General Gordon Granger enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation to the residents of Galveston, Texas , at the end of the American Civil War .
Since it was designated a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth has become more universally recognized beyond Black America. For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been ...
On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the law that made June 19th a federal holiday. Officially designated as "Juneteenth National Independence Day", Juneteenth commemorates the belated June 19, 1865, announcement that enslaved people in the Confederate states had been freed by President Abraham Lincoln as of January 1, 1863.
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 ...
On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, which recognized Juneteenth as a federal holiday, making it the 11th federal holiday.
Opal Lee (born October 7, 1926) is an American retired teacher, counselor, and activist in the movement to make Juneteenth a federally-recognized holiday. She is often described as the "grandmother of Juneteenth". [2] On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed Senate Bill S. 475, making Juneteenth the eleventh federal holiday. [3]
President Biden on Thursday signed into law a measure that makes June 19, or Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Vice President Harris, too, marked ...