June 19 marks Juneteenth, a day of remembrance of the African American culture, specifically Emancipation Day or Freedom Day.
On June 19, 1865, General Order No. 3 was read by Union General Gordon Granger in Galveston, Texas. The order informed enslaved Africans in America that they were free.
On June 15, 2021, the Senate unanimously passed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday in the United States of America.
The US federal holiday, Juneteenth, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas — two months after the Confederacy had surrendered.
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