NYC officially makes Juneteenth holiday for city workers

Name: NYC officially makes Juneteenth holiday for city workers
Uploaded: 2022-04-11T12:54:00-0400
Duration: 22 s
Description: June 19 marks the day in 1865 -- two months after the end of the Civil War and more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation -- that enslaved Black people in Texas were told by Union soldiers they had been freed.

June 19 marks the day in 1865 -- two months after the end of the Civil War and more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation -- that enslaved Black people in Texas were told by Union soldiers they had been freed.