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40-year march: Only one state doesn't recognize Juneteenth

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President Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth a national holiday. The day marks the formal end of slavery in the United States. It took until 1979 for Texas to formally recognize the holiday. Thirty-one states adopted the holiday between 2000 and 2009, and another 13 did so in the decade that followed.

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40-year march: Only one state doesn't recognize Juneteenth

Forty years after the first state recognized the formal end of slavery in the United States as cause for an official celebration, President Biden signed legislation Thursday making Juneteenth a national holiday.

3 years ago·Washington, United States

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