WASHINGTON – The House will vote on legislation Wednesday (today) to make June 19, or Juneteenth, a federal holiday — just one day after the Senate passed the legislation.
The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act would grant every federal employee a day off to commemorate June 19, 1865, the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, discovered President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved African Americans in rebel states 2½ years earlier. The day is also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day.
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