NY Finally Recognizes Juneteenth
Monday, June 21, 2004 at 08:14PM
TheSpook


It's official: Gov. George Pataki has signed legislation establishing June 19 as "Juneteenth Freedom Day" in New York --  welcome news for organizers of Saturday's local holiday celebration. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day a Union Army general rode into Galveston, Texas, to inform the last slaves that they were free -- more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. [more]
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