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think there should be recognition by the United States government that we have made contri- butions to the nation as a Bass said. The of Juneteenth as many in the U.S. have only started to learn is June 19, 1865. That was the day Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galves- ton, Texas, to inform the residents kept as slaves that they were free. Had been, since Jan.

1, 1863. Juneteenth, in other words, celebrates people who were free but know it. Which might make it the most American holiday of all. Juneteenth was a big thing last year the year of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter. a bigger thing now.

By the time Congress got around to its historic vote this week, all but one state in the union South Dakota had recognized Juneteenth in some way (Hawaii signed its bill just this week). Seven states New York, Texas, Massachusetts, Vir- ginia, Washington, Oregon and Pennsylvania recog- nized Juneteenth as a state holiday. State employees were to have the day schools were to be closed. Five of those seven states enacted the legislation within the last year. Among the private companies that had been giving their employees paid Juneteenth leave: Nike, Master- card, Uber, Best Buy, Target, J.C.

Penney, the NFL, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Gannett, the parent company of The Poughkeepsie Journal, The Jour- nal News and Times Herald-Record. Some have likened Juneteenth to an African Amer- ican Fourth of July. But more than that, Evans said. Juneteenth, rightly considered, is a continuation of In- dependence Day the sequel to Liberty and Justice for All. say Juneteenth completed the cycle of Evans said.

of July freed the country from the British. Juneteenth freed all the people. This is a comple- Not that anything wrong with the Fourth of July. Fireworks, hot dogs, Sousa all very nice. But some Americans have always felt July 4 quite tell the whole story.

And not just this year. That feeling is actually a very old one. to the American slave, is your Fourth of Frederick Douglass thundered, famously, to a crowd in Rochester in 1852. answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all oth- er days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant Douglass said. him, your celebration is a sham, your boasted liberty, an un- holy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, im- piety, and hypocrisy a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of That feeling has not gone away.

Everything old is new Juneteenth is both one of the oldest and one of the newest holidays on the calendar. Old in terms of its ori- gins. New in terms of its national It was celebrated in Texas on June 19, 1866 one year after the event it commemorates. That, by the way, was more a symbolic than an actual milestone: there were people held as slaves in Delaware and Kentucky even after June 19, 1865. Under various names Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, Emancipation Day Juneteenth was celebrated in the Southwest and the South over the next century.

In 1938 it was recognized by proclamation in Texas: June 19, 1938, this year falls on Sunday do urge all members of the Negro race in Texas to observe the day in a manner appropriate to its importance to pro- claimed Governor James V. Allred. But Juneteenth never gained much traction in the North. And by the 1960s civil rights era, some came to see it as old-fashioned. So depending on where you grew up, Juneteenth might be a blowout celebration.

Or it might get you a blank look. By the late 1960s, interest began to revive: June 19 be- came the of the 1968 Poor Cam- paign of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1979, Texas made it a state holiday the state to do so. And as populations in the U.S. became more mo- bile, they brought Juneteenth with them.

is not something that has been ade- quately appreciated in the said Pastor Eddie Spencer IV of Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Engle- wood, New Jersey. He grew up in Burlington; he heard about Juneteenth from his roommate at Virginia Union University in Richmond a Texan. These days there is much more regional mixing. So word is getting out. By 1994 there was a National Juneteenth Observance Foundation.

By 1997, it had a the national (copy- righted) Juneteenth Flag, designed by Ben Haith of Mas- sachusetts. Red, white and blue, with a great star erupt- ing out of the middle. the bursting star of said Steve Wil- liams, president of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation. new horizon is the blue. The red is the ground soaked with the blood we shed for this country, from the middle passage to the current George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and all the other head- lines of the past year have made Juneteenth seem newly important.

People wanted to learn about it. year, you go through a period where you have to explain what Juneteenth Bass, of the White Plains commemoration, said. is one of the years where people understand it. It seems there was some more clarity of the last year, and understanding, and in- terest in But no one changed the game like former president Donald Trump, when he scheduled a rally for June 19, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, site of the worst race massa- cre in U.S. history (marking its own 100th birthday this year).

In the resulting uproar eventually the date was changed Juneteenth was suddenly on ra- dar. made Juneteenth very Trump boasted. Many ways to celebrate Everyone knows how you celebrate July 4. Bottle rockets, barbecues, bunting. But how do you celebrate Juneteenth? In the Northeast, it varies from community to community.

There might be a raising of the Juneteenth There might be a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, or of General Order No. 3, the original announcement Major General Granger had read to the enslaved populations of Galveston and their former masters on June 19, 1865: people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property be- tween former masters and Juneteenth, however celebrated, is a joyful, wel- coming event. It originated with, and is per- tinent to, African Americans but it can be celebrated by people of all backgrounds. Only it does ask something of us.

A willingness to fully acknowledge American history. The bad, as well as the good. the only way all of us the whole coun- try can move forward. Together. been this sweeping-under-the-rug mental- Spencer said.

after all these years, no one wants to admit run out of Jim Beckerman is a culture reporter for the USA TO- DAY NETWORK. Email: Twitter: Juneteenth Continued from Page 1A The Juneteenth flag commemorates the day that slavery ended in the U.S. June 19, 1865, several years after the Emancipation Proclamation. NATI.