Juneteenth National Independence Day became a federal holiday in 2021, and it’s observed as a holiday by Tompkins County, Ithaca College, and Cornell University. Juneteenth commemorates word of the Emancipation Proclamation reaching Galveston on June 19th, 1865, along with an order informing the people of Texas that all slaves were free.
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