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Greetings Ohio national Federation of the blind, please join me and other African-American members in celebrating Juneteenth holiday. Please read the attached article, Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. The state of Ohio is also recognizing Juneteenth as a holiday, since it falls on a Saturday tomorrow June 19, 2021, Friday today June 18, 2021, will be in observed holiday for all state employees. 
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Cheerfully, Reverend Dr. Carolyn Peters Greetings Ohio an National Federation The Blind Juneteenth Holiday, commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States.
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Juneteenth
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See also: Emancipation Day
Juneteenth[b] (officially Juneteenth National Independence Day and historically known as Jubilee Day,[2] Black Independence Day,[3] and Emancipation Day[4][5]) is a federal holiday in the United States celebrating the emancipation of African American slaves.[6] Originating in Galveston, Texas, in 1866, it has been celebrated annually on June 19 throughout the United States. It became a recognized federal holiday in June 2021 when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.[7][8][9] It is commemorated on the anniversary date of the June 19, 1865, announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger, proclaiming freedom for slaves in Texas.[10]

Juneteenth

Celebration of Emancipation Day (Juneteenth) in 1900, Texas

Also called	
Juneteenth National Independence Day
Black Independence Day
Jubilee Day
Emancipation Day (TX)
Observed by	United States
Type	National (federal), historical, ethnic, cultural
Significance	Emancipation of slaves in areas in rebellion against the Union
Observances	African American history, culture and progress
Date	June 19
Next time	June 19, 2021
Frequency	Annual
First time	June 19, 1866 (celebration) 
June 19, 2021 (federal holiday)[a]
President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1862 had officially outlawed slavery in Texas and the other states that had rebelled against the Union almost two and a half years earlier. Enforcement of the Proclamation generally relied on the advance of Union troops. Texas, as the most remote of the slave states, had seen an expansion of slavery and had a low presence of Union troops as the American Civil War ended; thus, enforcement there had been slow and inconsistent prior to Granger's announcement.[10] Although the Emancipation Proclamation declared an end to slavery in the Confederate States, slavery was still legal and practiced in two Union border states – Delaware and Kentucky – until December 6, 1865, when ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished chattel slavery nationwide. Additionally, Indian Territories that had sided with the Confederacy, namely the Choctaw, were the last to release those enslaved, in 1866.[11][12][13][c][14]

Celebrations date to 1866, at first involving church-centered community gatherings in Texas. It spread across the South and became more commercialized in the 1920s and 1930s, often centering on a food festival. Participants in the Great Migration out of the South carried their celebrations to other parts of the country. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, these celebrations were eclipsed by the struggle for postwar civil rights, but grew in popularity again in the 1970s with a focus on African-American freedom and African-American arts. As of 2021, North Dakota and South Dakota are the only states that do not recognize Juneteenth, according to the Congressional Research Service.[6]

Modern observance is primarily in local celebrations. Traditions include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing traditional songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing", and reading of works by noted African-American writers, such as Ralph Ellison and Maya Angelou. Celebrations include rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, and Miss Juneteenth contests. Juneteenth is also celebrated by the Mascogos, descendants of Black Seminoles who escaped from U.S. slavery in 1852 and settled in Coahuila, Mexico.[15][16]

History

The Civil War and celebrations of Emancipation

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), emancipation came at different times to various places in the Southern United States. Celebrations of emancipation often called a Jubilee occurred on September 22, July 4, August 1, April 6, and November 1, among other dates. In Texas, emancipation came late: enforced in Texas on June 19, 1865, as the southern rebellion collapsed, emancipation became a well known cause of celebration.[17]

End of slavery in Texas

Further information: Emancipation Proclamation

General Order No. 3, June 19, 1865

Areas covered by the Emancipation Proclamation are in red. Slave-holding areas not covered are in blue.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.[18] It became effective on January 1, 1863, declaring that all enslaved persons in the Confederate States of America in rebellion and not in Union hands were freed.[18][c]

More isolated geographically, planters and other slaveholders had migrated into Texas from eastern states to escape the fighting, and many brought enslaved people with them, increasing by the thousands the enslaved population in the state at the end of the Civil War.[19] Although most lived in rural areas, more than 1,000 resided in both Galveston and Houston by 1860, with several hundred in other large towns.[20] By 1865, there were an estimated 250,000 enslaved people in Texas.[19][21]

Despite the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the western Army of the Trans-Mississippi did not surrender until June 2.[22] On the morning of Monday, June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived on the island of Galveston, Texas,[23] to take command of the more than 2,000 federal troops[24] recently landed in the department of Texas to enforce the emancipation of its slaves and oversee a peaceful transition of power, additionally nullifying all laws passed within Texas during the war by Confederate lawmakers.[23] The Texas Historical Commission and Galveston Historical Foundation report that Granger’s men marched throughout Galveston reading General Order No. 3 first at Union Army Headquarters at the Osterman Building (formerly at the intersection of Strand Street and 22nd Street, since demolished), in the Strand Historic District. Next they marched to the 1861 Customs House and Courthouse before finally marching to the Negro Church on Broadway, since renamed Reedy Chapel-AME Church.[25] The order informed all Texans that, in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves were free:

The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.[26]

Longstanding urban legend places the historic reading of General Order No. 3 at Ashton Villa; however, no extant historical evidence supports such claims.[27] On June 21, 2014, the Galveston Historical Foundation and Texas Historical Commission erected a Juneteenth plaque where the Osterman Building once stood signifying the location of Major General Granger's Union Headquarters and subsequent issuance of his general orders.[28]

Although this event has come to be celebrated as the end of slavery, emancipation for the remaining enslaved in two Union border states (Delaware and Kentucky), would not come until several months later, on December 18, 1865, when ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment was announced.[29][c][d] The freedom of formerly enslaved people in Texas was given final legal status in a series of Texas Supreme Court decisions between 1868 and 1874.[31]

Early celebrations

Formerly enslaved people in Galveston celebrated after the announcement.[32] On June 19, 1866, one year after the announcement, freedmen in Texas organized the first of what became the annual celebration of "Jubilee Day" (Day of Jubilee).[26] Early celebrations were used as political rallies to give voting instructions to newly freed slaves.[33] Early independence celebrations often occurred on January 1 or 4.[34]

In some cities, black people were barred by Democrats from using public parks because of state-sponsored segregation of facilities. Across parts of Texas, freed people pooled their funds to purchase land to hold their celebrations.[19][26] The day was first celebrated in Austin in 1867 under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau, and it had been listed on a "calendar of public events" by 1872.[29] That year, black leaders in Texas raised $1,000 for the purchase of 10 acres (4 ha) of land to celebrate Juneteenth, today known as Houston's Emancipation Park.[35] The observation was soon drawing thousands of attendees across Texas; an estimated 30,000 black people celebrated at Booker T. Washington Park in Limestone County, Texas, established in 1898 for Juneteenth celebrations.[29][36] Attendance at the Limestone County event fell off sharply in the wake of the 1981 drowning of three local teenagers while in the custody of a Limestone County sheriff’s deputy, a reserve deputy, and a probation officer.[37] By the 1890s, Jubilee Day had become known as Juneteenth.[21]

Jim Crow


Band performing in Texas for Emancipation Day, 1900

Emancipation Day celebration in Richmond, Virginia, 1905
In the early 20th century, economic and political forces led to a decline in Juneteenth celebrations. From 1890 to 1908, Texas and all former Confederate states passed new constitutions or amendments that effectively disenfranchised black people, excluding them from the political process. White-dominated state legislatures passed Jim Crow laws imposing second-class status.[38] Gladys L. Knight writes the decline in celebration was in part because "upwardly mobile blacks [...] were ashamed of their slave past and aspired to assimilate into mainstream culture. Younger generations of blacks, becoming further removed from slavery were occupied with school [...] and other pursuits." Others who migrated to the Northern United States couldn't take time off or simply dropped the celebration.[36]

The Great Depression forced many black people off farms and into the cities to find work. In these urban environments, African Americans had difficulty taking the day off to celebrate. From 1936 to 1951, the Texas State Fair served as a destination for celebrating the holiday, contributing to its revival. In 1936, an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 people joined the holiday's celebration in Dallas. In 1938, Texas governor James V. Allred issued a proclamation stating in part:[39]

Whereas, the Negroes in the State of Texas observe June 19 as the official day for the celebration of Emancipation from slavery; and

Whereas, June 19, 1865, was the date when General Robert [sic] S. Granger, who had command of the Military District of Texas, issued a proclamation notifying the Negroes of Texas that they were free; and

Whereas, since that time, Texas Negroes have observed this day with suitable holiday ceremony, except during such years when the day comes on a Sunday; when the Governor of the State is asked to proclaim the following day as the holiday for State observance by Negroes; and

Whereas, June 19, 1938, this year falls on Sunday; NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES V. ALLRED, Governor of the State of Texas, do set aside and proclaim the day of June 20, 1938, as the date for observance of EMANCIPATION DAY

in Texas, and do urge all members of the Negro race in Texas to observe the day in a manner appropriate to its importance to them.

Seventy thousand people attended a "Juneteenth Jamboree" in 1951.[39] From 1940 through 1970, in the second wave of the Great Migration, more than five million black people left Texas, Louisiana and other parts of the South for the North and the West Coast. As historian Isabel Wilkerson writes, "The people from Texas took Juneteenth Day to Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle, and other places they went."[40] In 1945, Juneteenth was introduced in San Francisco by an immigrant from Texas, Wesley Johnson.[41]

During the 1950s and 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement focused the attention of African Americans on expanding freedom and integrating. As a result, observations of the holiday declined again (though it was still celebrated in Texas).[33][34]

Revival


Juneteenth festival in Milwaukee, 2019
Juneteenth soon saw a revival as black people began tying their struggle to that of ending slavery. In Atlanta, some campaigners for equality wore Juneteenth buttons. During the 1968 Poor People's Campaign to Washington, DC, called by Rev. Ralph Abernathy, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference made June 19 the "Solidarity Day of the Poor People’s Campaign".[41][29] In the subsequent revival, large celebrations in Minneapolis and Milwaukee emerged, [42] as well as across the Eastern United States.[43] In 1974, Houston began holding large-scale celebrations again,[21] and Fort Worth, Texas, followed the next year. Around 30,000 people attended festivities at Sycamore Park in Fort Worth the following year.[33] The 1978 Milwaukee celebration was described as drawing over 100,000 attendees.[43] In the late 1980s, there were major celebrations of Juneteenth in California, Wisconsin, Illinois, Georgia, and Washington, D.C.[21] In 2016, Opal Lee, often referred to as the "grandmother of Juneteenth", marched from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington D.C. to advocate for a federal holiday.[44]

Prayer Breakfast and Commemorative Celebration

In 1979, Democratic State Representative Al Edwards of Houston, Texas, successfully sponsored legislation to make Juneteenth a paid Texas state holiday. The same year, he hosted the inaugural Al Edwards’ Prayer Breakfast and Commemorative Celebration on the grounds of the 1859 home, Ashton Villa. As one of the few existing buildings from the Civil War era and popular in local myth and legend as the location of Major General Granger’s announcement, Edwards’ annual celebration includes a local historian dressed as the Union general[45] reading General Order No. 3 from the second story balcony of the home. The Emancipation Proclamation is also read and speeches are made.[46][47] Representative Al Edwards died of natural causes April 29, 2020, at the age of 83,[48] but the annual prayer breakfast and commemorative celebration continued at Ashton Villa, with the late legislator's son, Jason Edwards, speaking in his father’s place.[49][50]


Al Edwards Statue
Official recognition


Flyer for a 1980 Juneteenth celebration at the Seattle Center
In the late 1970s, when the Texas Legislature declared Juneteenth a "holiday of significance [...] particularly to the blacks of Texas,"[34] it became the first state to establish Juneteenth as a state holiday.[51] The bill passed through the Texas Legislature in 1979 and was officially made a state holiday on January 1, 1980.[29] Juneteenth is a "partial staffing" holiday in Texas; government offices do not close but agencies may operate with reduced staff, and employees may either celebrate this holiday or substitute it with one of four "optional holidays" recognized by Texas.[52][failed verification]

In 1996, the first legislation to recognize "Juneteenth Independence Day" was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.J. Res. 195, sponsored by Barbara-Rose Collins (D-MI). In 1997, Congress recognized the day through Senate Joint Resolution 11 and House Joint Resolution 56. In 2013, the U.S. Senate passed Senate Resolution 175, acknowledging Lula Briggs Galloway (late president of the National Association of Juneteenth Lineage), who "successfully worked to bring national recognition to Juneteenth Independence Day", and the continued leadership of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation.[53]

In June 2019, Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Wolf recognized Juneteenth as a holiday in the state.[54] In 2020, state governors of Virginia, New York, and New Jersey signed an executive order recognizing Juneteenth as a paid day of leave for state employees.[55][56][57] In 2021, the governor of Oregon signed an executive order recognizing Juneteenth as a paid day of leave for state employees.[58] On June 16, 2021, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signed House Bill 3922, establishing Juneteenth as an paid state holiday starting in 2022;[59] since 2003, it had been a state ceremonial holiday in Illinois.[6]

Activists had long been pushing Congress to recognize Juneteenth.[60] Organizations such as the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation sought a Congressional designation of Juneteenth as a national day of observance.[19] When it was officially made a federal holiday in June of 2021, it became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth will coincide with Father's Day in 2022, 2033, 2039, 2044, and 2050.

Pop culture and mass media


Juneteenth Flag

The Pan-African flag
Since the 1980s and 1990s, the holiday has been more widely celebrated among African-American communities and has seen increasing mainstream attention in the US.[36][61] In 1991, there was an exhibition by the Anacostia Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution) called “Juneteenth ’91, Freedom Revisited”.[42] In 1994, a group of community leaders gathered at Christian Unity Baptist Church in New Orleans to work for greater national celebration of Juneteenth.[36][61] Expatriates have celebrated it in cities abroad, such as Paris.[62] Some US military bases in other countries sponsor celebrations, in addition to those of private groups.[62][63] In 1999, Ralph Ellison's novel Juneteenth was published, increasing recognition of the holiday.[64] By 2006, at least 200 cities celebrated the day.[42]

In 1997, activist Ben Haith created the Juneteenth flag, which was further refined by illustrator Lisa Jeanne Graf. In 2000, the flag was first hoisted at the Roxbury Heritage State Park in Boston by Haith.[65][66] The Pan-African flag is also displayed during the holiday.[67]

The holiday has gained mainstream awareness outside African-American communities through depictions in entertainment media, such as episodes of TV series Atlanta (2016)[68] and Black-ish (2017),[69] the latter of which featured musical numbers about the holiday by Aloe Blacc, The Roots,[70] and Fonzworth Bentley.[71][72] In 2018, Apple added Juneteenth to its calendars in iOS under official US holidays.[73] Some private companies have adopted Juneteenth as a paid day off for employees, while others have officially marked the day in other ways, such as moments of silence.[74][75] In 2020, several American corporations and educational institutions, including Twitter, the National Football League, Nike, announced that they would treat Juneteenth as a company holiday, providing a paid day off to their workers,[76] and Google Calendar added Juneteenth to its US Holidays calendar.[77] Also in 2020, a number of major universities formally recognized Juneteenth,[78][79] either as a "day of reflection" or as a university holiday with paid time off for faculty and staff.[79]


Governor Tom Wolf signing legislation to officially recognize Juneteenth in Pennsylvania in 2019[80]
In 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the worldwide protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, controversy ensued when President Donald Trump scheduled his first political rally since the pandemic's outbreak for Juneteenth in Tulsa, Oklahoma, site of the 1921 race massacre in the Greenwood district. In response, he rescheduled the rally for the following day.[81][82] In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Trump said, "I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous. It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it until I mentioned it."[83]

Legal observance


United States Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee campaigns for Juneteenth to be a federal holiday.
National

Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. On June 15, 2021, the Senate unanimously passed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act[84], establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday; it subsequently passed through the House of Representatives by a 415–14 vote on June 16.[85][86] President Joe Biden signed the bill[87] on June 17, 2021, making Juneteenth the eleventh federal holiday.[88][89][3]

State and local


Recognition of Juneteenth as a holiday in the US by states, prior to the federal recognition in 2021
  Recognized before 2000

  Recognized between 2000 and 2009

  Recognized between 2010 and 2021

Most states recognize it in some way, either as a ceremonial observance or a state holiday. Texas was the first state to recognize the date, in 1980. By 2002, eight states officially recognized Juneteenth[90] and four years later 15 states recognized the holiday.[34] By 2008, nearly half of states observed the holiday as a ceremonial observance.[91] By 2019, 47 states and the District of Columbia recognized Juneteenth,[92] although only one state (Texas) has adopted the holiday as a paid holiday for state employees.[93] In 2020, Massachusetts Governor Charles Baker issued a proclamation that the day would be marked as "Juneteenth Independence Day". This followed the filing of bills by both the House and Senate to make Juneteenth a state holiday. Baker did not comment on these bills specifically, but promised to grant the observance of Juneteenth greater importance.[94]

States that have not established Juneteenth as an observance or holiday include North Dakota and South Dakota.[95][96] Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota proclaimed June 19, 2020, as Juneteenth Day, spurring calls for it to be recognized annually, rather than just for 2020.[97] Similarly, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum announced that the state would formally recognize Friday, June 19, 2020, as Juneteenth Day in North Dakota for the year 2020.[98] The State of Hawaii has made some movement toward recognizing Juneteenth. In June of 2020, Hawaii's first African American Miss Hawaii USA, Samantha Neyland, founded Hawaii for Juneteenth, a coalition and grassroots movement. Hawaii for Juneteenth lobbied the State Legislature into successfully passing SB 939, introduced by Senator Glenn Wakai. [99] In 2021 Illinois passed a law that will make Juneteeth a state holiday starting in 2022.[100]

Some cities and counties have recognized Juneteenth through proclamation. In 2020, Juneteenth was formally recognized by New York City (as an annual official city holiday and public school holiday, starting in 2021), although in 2022 it will be observed as a school holiday on June 20th.[101] [102] Cook County, Illinois, adopted an ordinance to make Juneteenth a paid county holiday.[103] Also the City and County of Honolulu recognizes it (as an "annual day of honor and reflection"),[104] and Portland, Oregon (as a day of remembrance and action and a paid holiday for city employees).[105]

Celebrations


Traditional African dance and music performed for Juneteenth, 2019
Play media
A video titled "What is Juneteenth?" by the House Democratic Caucus.
The holiday is considered the "longest-running African-American holiday"[36] and has been called "America's second Independence Day". Juneteenth is usually celebrated on the third Saturday in June. Historian Mitch Kachun considers that celebrations of the end of slavery have three goals: "to celebrate, to educate, and to agitate".[106] Early celebrations consisted of baseball, fishing, and rodeos. African Americans were often prohibited from using public facilities for their celebrations, so they were often held at churches or near water. Celebrations were also characterized by elaborate large meals and people wearing their best clothing.[36] It was common for former slaves and their descendants to make a pilgrimage to Galveston.[42] As early festivals received news coverage, Janice Hume and Noah Arceneaux consider that they "served to assimilate African-American memories within the dominant 'American story'. "[107]

Observance today is primarily in local celebrations.[108] In many places, Juneteenth has become a multicultural holiday.[109] Traditions include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing traditional songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing", and reading of works by noted African-American writers, such as Ralph Ellison and Maya Angelou.[108] Celebrations include picnics, rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, blues festivals and Miss Juneteenth contests.[36][42][62][110][111] Strawberry soda is a traditional drink associated with the celebration.[42] The Mascogos, the descendants of Black Seminoles, who have resided in Coahuila, Mexico, since 1852, also celebrate Juneteenth.[112]

Juneteenth celebrations often include lectures and exhibitions on African-American culture.[106] The modern holiday places much emphasis upon teaching about African-American heritage. Karen M. Thomas wrote in Emerge that "community leaders have latched on to [Juneteenth] to help instill a sense of heritage and pride in black youth." Celebrations are commonly accompanied by voter registration efforts, the performing of plays, and retelling stories.[113] The holiday is also a celebration of soul food and other food with African-American influences. In Tourism Review International, Anne Donovan and Karen DeBres write that "Barbecue is the centerpiece of most Juneteenth celebrations".[114]

See also

Emancipation Day
Emancipation Proclamation
History of African Americans in Texas
Independence Day (United States)
Negro Election Day
Miss Juneteenth
Public holidays in the United States
Serfs Emancipation Day
Slavery in the United States
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Notes

 observed on the previous Friday, June 18, 2021
 A portmanteau of June and nineteenth[1]
^ a b c Slaves in Union hands had not been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation due to the limited scope of presidential "war powers". See Emancipation Proclamation#Coverage for more information.
 Unlike in Texas, where slavery grew during the war, in Kentucky, due largely to Union military measures and escapes to Union lines, the number of those enslaved fell by over 70%.[30]
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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Juneteenth.
Look up Juneteenth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Juneteenth History, website for Juneteenth World Wide Celebration
Jennifer Schuessler, "Liberation as Death Sentence", The New York Times, June 11, 2012
Berkeley Juneteenth Festival, 2014 celebration
Juneteenth: Fact Sheet Congressional Research Service (updated June 3, 2020)
Juneteenth in United States
Juneteenth World Wide Celebration, website for 150th anniversary celebration
Juneteenth Historical Marker, Juneteenth historical marker at 2201 Strand, Galveston, TX 77550


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