Rubin Fortunato Recognizes Juneteenth as a Paid Holiday

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June 15, 2022

June 19th – or Juneteenth as it is more commonly known – is a holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.  In September 1862, President Abraham Lincoln enacted the Emancipation Proclamation, which decreed that about three million enslaved people would be freed from the bondage of slavery in the Confederate States.  Despite the Proclamation and the end of the Civil War, not all of the enslaved were freed or knew of their right to be free.  Slavery was not effectively ended in the United States until June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and began enforcing the Proclamation.  Texas was the last Confederate state to free enslaved people of color.

On June 17, 2021, President Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday.  Starting in 2022 and going forward, Rubin Fortunato recognizes Juneteenth as a paid Firm holiday in recognition of this important moment in U.S. and African-American history.

 
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