They embrace them,” Biden said during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. “Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments. did just that, as President Biden signed a bipartisan bill into law on June 17.
Some companies announced they would give employees the day off on Juneteenth, and momentum grew to make it a national holiday. The gatherings grew through the aborted promise of Reconstruction, through racial terror and Jim Crow, and through the Great Depression, with a major revival in the 1980s and 1990s.ĭuring the summer of 2020, amid the racial-justice protests following the murder of George Floyd, millions of White Americans became aware of Juneteenth for the first time.
Black Texans marked the day each year with parades and picnics, music and fine clothes. The newly emancipated responded with cries of joy and prayers of gratitude - a celebration that became known as Juneteenth. President Abraham Lincoln had freed them two and a half years earlier in his Emancipation Proclamation, but since Texas never fell to Union troops in battle, they’d remained in bondage. two months after the Civil War had ended - and announced that more than 250,000 enslaved people in Texas were free. Gordon Granger stepped onto a balcony in Galveston, Tex.
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