After the event was made a holiday in 2021, states have taken different approaches when it comes to marking the occasion.
Juneteenth National Independence Day was launched to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S.—but not all of the country's citizens will enjoy a day off to mark the occasion.America's newest federal holiday, named after a contraction of the date 'June Nineteenth,' commemorates the events of June 19 in 1865. On that day, some 250,000 still-enslaved African Americans were told that the Civil War had ended and that they had been declared free by law.
State workers were given the day off with full pay and state government offices were closed in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.
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