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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.
As Juneteenth rolls around, many Americans are celebrating the ending of slavery in the United States — and some for […] The origins of Juneteenth: History, celebrations and more Skip to main ...
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 ...
An 1825 invitation to an Independence Day celebration A 2014 Independence Day parade in Washington, D.C., the national capital Independence Day is a national holiday marked by patriotic displays. Per 5 U.S.C. § 6103 , Independence Day is a federal holiday, so all non-essential federal institutions (such as the postal service and federal courts ...
Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. In 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law theJuneteenth National Independence Day Ac t establishing Juneteenth as the 11th ...
Peoples helped make Juneteenth recognized by the City of Portland in 1972. Mayor Sam Adams and Amanda Fritz declared Peoples the "Mother of Juneteenth" in 2011. [1] [2] Juneteenth became an observed holiday for the City of Portland and Multnomah County employees in 2020, as part of a resolution to address structural racism.
For the first time since Juneteenth was federally recognized, the National Park Service is making entry into all sites free on the holiday. For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth ...
2021 – Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. [ 21 ] Births