Juneteenth is a state holiday observed in the American states of Massachusetts, New York, Texas and Virginia on June 19th each year. In New Jersey, Juneteenth is observed as a state and public holiday on the third Friday in June.
Officially known as Emancipation Day and also called Juneteenth Independence Day and Freedom Day, Juneteenth is a portmanteau word for June and nineteenth and commemorates the June 19th 1865 announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas and the emancipation of African-American slaves throughout the Confederate South.
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