The bill will recognize the third Friday in June as a holiday, and was initially approved by state lawmakers in July. Murphy signed the bill into law after a 15-minute conversation with R&B star SZA about race relations in New Jersey.
WOODLAND PARK, N.J. – Gov. Phil Murphy officially declared Juneteenth a state holiday during a live announcement onThe bill will recognize the third Friday in June as a state and public holiday, and was initially approved by state lawmakers in July.
Murphy signed the bill into law after a 15-minute conversation with R&B star and Maplewood, N.J. native SZA about race relations in New Jersey . During the livestream, Murphy noted that several states acknowledge Juneteenth but few have made it a state holiday. Juneteenth's origins stretch back to 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas in the South were told by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger that Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation more than two years earlier. Texas was the last Confederate state to have the proclamation announced.What to know about Juneteenth: “The stain of racism lives on," Murphy said. "We are still digging out of that legacy and my guess is that we will be for a long time."Although Juneteenth marks the day Texas was informed of the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people there as it had in other secessionist states, it did not apply to Union states where there were enslavers that had not seceded in the Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1865, freed enslaved people in the whole United States..
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