Juneteenth is
a combination of the words June and nineteenth. It commemorates the day, more
than two months after the end of the Civil War, when enslaved Black Americans
in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom.
A holiday
celebrated on 19 of June to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in
the US. The holiday was first celebrated in Texas, where on that date in 1865,
in the aftermath of the Civil War, slaves were declared free under the terms of
the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation.
All 50 states
either commemorate or observe Juneteenth but only 18 observe it as a permanent
paid state holiday, those being Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia,
Illinois, Louisiana, Maine Massachusetts, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia and Washington. (Have to do
better, like every other law it should be enforced!! Hell, it's only 1 dam
day!!) Baby steps...
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