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When it was officially made a federal holiday on June 17, 2021, she was standing beside President Joe Biden as he signed the bill. 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).
In 2021, Juneteenth became the latest federal holiday in the US — the first to be approved since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. With Juneteenth now a national holiday, many public and ...
TERRY TANG. June 18, 2024 at 11:07 AM. 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 ...
MILWAUKEE - The federal holiday Juneteenth will be celebrated on June 19. The holiday observes the date "the people of Texas were informed all slaves are free." "It's a dark side of history. It's ...
A working holiday which was first observed in 2020. This holiday aims to promote, protect, and safeguard the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression, speech and of the press in the Philippines especially in school campuses. July 27. Iglesia ni Cristo Day.
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". On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed Senate Bill S. 475, making Juneteenth the eleventh federal holiday.
People carry a Juneteenth flag as they march during a Juneteenth re-enactment celebration in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 2021.(Photo by Mark Felix / AFP) (Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)
The newest federal holiday, Juneteenth, is on Wednesday, June 19. Here's everything you need to know about the holiday, including what will be closed and why we celebrate. When is Juneteenth 2024?