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"You can celebrate the end of enslavement or the treasonous rebellion to perpetuate enslavement"
Link to tweet
https://www.wistv.com/2021/06/18/sc-lawmakers-open-bill-allowing-state-workers-take-off-juneteenth-or-confederate-memorial-day/
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - After President Joe Biden signed a bill into law making Juneteenth a federal holiday, most federal offices around the country closed Friday in recognition of the day.
But, state offices in South Carolina remained open.
While it was given special recognition in 2008, Juneteenth is not an official state holiday in South Carolina.
On June 19th, 1865, Union Army Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and informed enslaved African Americans that the civil war had ended and all slaves were free.
It came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s historic Emancipation Proclamation but the same year as General Robert E. Lee surrendered.
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