Our offices will be closed on Monday, June 20, 2022, in honor of Juneteenth. Juneteenth became a federal holiday on June 17, 2021, the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was adopted in 1983. The bill was bipartisan, passing the Senate by unanimous consent and passing the House with a 415-14 vote.
Contrary to some rumors, Juneteenth does not mark the end of slavery. Instead, it commemorates the day in 1865 when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger traveled to Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order Number 3, which declared: “The people of Texas are informed that, ...
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