Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, became a federal holiday in 2021. Learn more about the origins of the holiday.
employers to pay workers for holidays, but many companies offer paid holidays as part of a standard benefits package.
Awareness of Juneteenth around the country grew as Black people migrated out of the South in the years after the civil war, said historian Mitch Kachun, author of "First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory." By 1920, over 17,000 Black Texans moved away to states from Massachusetts to California. During World War II, thousands more relocated further west to find work in defense industries.
The Poor People’s March started hundreds of miles from Washington a few weeks after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Its messaging drew on anstory that a black Union soldier traveled by mule to share word of emancipation outward from Texas.
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