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A Juneteenth flag waves within the wind throughout a 2023 ceremony.
On June 19, 1862, the U.S. Senate and Home of Representatives declared, “There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the Territories of the USA now present, or which can at any time hereafter be fashioned or acquired by the USA, in any other case than in punishment of crimes whereof the social gathering shall have been duly convicted.”
Precisely three years later, Main Basic Gordon Granger lastly unfold the information of freedom from slavery to African Individuals residing in Texas.
Bexar County declared Juneteenth a vacation in 2020. In 2021, roughly a yr after the killing of George Floyd, Juneteenth turned an official U.S. vacation signed into legislation by President Biden, the primary such day to acquire authorized observance as a federal vacation since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was designated in 1983.
San Antonio provides many numerous gatherings and celebrations in June to commemorate this event — most publicly, the Juneteenth Freedom Parade, scheduled for Saturday, June 15. The occasion grows in attendance yearly. Free, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Sam Houston Excessive College, 4635 E. Houston St. (Parade route begins on the college and ends at Comanche Park #2, 2600 Rigsby Ave.), bexarcountyjuneteenth.com.Subscribe to SA Present newsletters.
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