Juneteenth is a celebration of the end of slavery in the United States.
Juneteenth is an American holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19th every year, and marks the day that Major General Gordon Granger announced to those enslaved in Texas that they were free. The word Juneteenth comes from June and nineteenth, which together form June-nineteenth. This means that it’s also sometimes called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day.
The day was celebrated in some areas before it was made an official holiday by Texas governor George W. Bush in 1980, but many states didn’t recognize it until 1986 when President Ronald Reagan signed a bill making it a national holiday. In 2017, Juneteenth became a state holiday in Texas for the first time ever.
