Title
Resolution to Declare June 19th of Each Year as a Designated City Holiday Known as Juneteenth Day (Resolution 21988)
Description
This item is a proposed Resolution for the City Council to declare June 19th of each year as a designated city holiday beginning in 2022.
Report
Summary
On June 19, 1865, about two months after the Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia, a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas to inform enslaved African-Americans of their freedom and that the Civil War had ended, putting into effect the Emancipation Proclamation issued more than two and a half years earlier by President Abraham Lincoln. Juneteenth Day is a holiday to celebrate freedom and to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by City Manager Jeffrey Barton, and the Human Resources and Law departments.