President Biden signed into law a bill making June 19th a federal holiday in recognition of Juneteenth, which commemorates the day that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston Texas in 1865, finally freeing people who were enslaved there. It is the first federal holiday to be instituted sine Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
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