A Juneteenth flag hangs on one of the vendor tents during a Juneteenth celebration.Īimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesĪll non-essential federal offices will be closed on Monday, as they typically are during other federal holidays, meaning federal courts and banks will not operate as usual. And, while people across the country attend parades and festivals to celebrate Juneteenth over the long weekend, a number of government agencies, including some state governments, are closed in observance. With the law's passage, Juneteenth became the 12th federal holiday formally recognized by the U.S. The following summer, President Joe Biden signed legislation that officially declared Juneteenth a federal holiday, which falls annually on the 19th of June. Even though the proclamation had passed years before, that day in 1865 is remembered as the effective conclusion to centuries of slavery in America.Īs the Black Lives Matter movement gained renewed momentum in 2020, so did public interest in the significance of Juneteenth and calls for its recognition on a national scale. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform the country's last enslaved people that they had been freed under the Emancipation Proclamation. The origins of Juneteenth stem from an important date after the Civil War - Jwhen the Union General Maj. Monday, June 19, marks the third time Juneteenth is observed nationwide as a federal holiday.Ī commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, Juneteenth is also called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, and its roots date back more than 150 years.
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