Biden’s action also makes Juneteenth a state holiday.
“Because Juneteenth falls on a Saturday, this makes the previous business day, Friday, June 18th, the day the state holiday is commemorated. This means that most state offices will be closed and most state employees will have the day off, with normal exceptions such as hospitals and public safety,” DeWine stated in a release.
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas — two months after the Confederacy had surrendered and about 2½ years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Southern states, the Associated Press reported.
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