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Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on. Juneteenth, holiday observed annually on June 19, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. A. Juneteenth, short for June Nineteenth, marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 to. Black Americans have been celebrating Juneteenth for more than a century, but it's only been a federal holiday for a. Juneteenth is an often overlooked event in our nations history. On , Union troops freed enslaved African Americans in.

Former President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act on , establishing.