The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart the nineteenth of June as Juneteenth Independence Day, to be observed on the Sunday that is closest to June 19th of each year, in recognition of June 19, 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger announced freedom for all slaves in ...
Juneteenth at CVPR First time overlap with CVPR as a federal holiday (June 20th, 2022) On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger marched federal troops into Galveston, Texas, to take control of the state and free nearly 300,000 people who were still enslaved despite the Emancipation ...