
Juneteenth 2025
Juneteenth, also known as the second Independence Day or Emancipation Day, is our eleventh and newest federal holiday. President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law on June 17, 2021, officially establishing June 19 as a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Why June 19th? Because on that day in 1865, Major General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops marched into Texas and announced that by executive decree more than 250,000 enslaved people were free. General Order No.