Pages Tagged With: "Juneteenth"
Executive Order 50
EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER FIFTY TO: HEADS OF ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES RE: DECLARING FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2021 A LEGAL HOLIDAY TO RECOGNIZE JUNETEENTH WHEREAS, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 declaring that all persons held as slaves in states and parts of states in rebellion against the United States […]
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EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER FORTY TO: HEADS OF ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES RE: DECLARING FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 A LEGAL HOLIDAY TO RECOGNIZE JUNETEENTH WHEREAS, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 declaring that all enslaved people shall be free; and WHEREAS, on June 19, 1865, two and a half years […]
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