Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day,
is a federal holiday in the United States.
It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the end
of slavery in the United States.
The holiday’s name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau
of June and nineteenth, referring to June 19, 1865, the day
when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final
enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas
at the end of the American Civil War.
