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Boudreaux says it was a Houston paper that first shortened "June 19th" to "Juneteenth" around 1890. "I just assume that it was a mouthful to say the whole thing, and apparently it stuck," she says.
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 ...
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 4th of July as national holidays. Before it ...
Juneteenth flag. Haith founded the National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation, and he led the holiday's first Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony in Boston's Roxbury Heritage State Park in 2000. [3] [13] Haith designed the Juneteenth flag in 1997, [14] and in 2000 (after the addition of the text June 19, 1865), he copyrighted the design. [15]
The order, and Granger's enforcement of it, is the central event commemorated by the holiday of Juneteenth, which originally celebrated the end of slavery in Texas. The order was not read aloud by the Union Army, but it was posted around town, and communicated to most African Americans by slavemasters. [ 1 ]
The holiday, often called America's second Independence Day, marks the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in Texas.
The Juneteenth flag is a symbol for the Juneteenth holiday in the United States. The first version was created in 1997 by activist Ben Haith and that early version was displayed in 1997. The present version was first flown in 2000. The colors and symbols on the flag are representative of freedom and the end of slavery.