Juneteenth's long road to recognition, by the numbers. - MeetThePress
That was especially true in the more far-flung parts of the Confederacy. It wasn’t until June 19, more than two months after Appomattox, that Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to formally announce the war was over and to inform the citizenry of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth quickly became an annual unofficial holiday in some communities in Texas and elsewhere with barbecues, parades and prayer gatherings, but not an official one. Few former Confederate states had an interest in granting the day formal significance. Today, there are only three states that do not formally celebrate the holiday: North Dakota, South Dakota and Hawaii. There may be a number of reasons for those states lagging behind the trend, but they stand out on a few important points. None of them were in the union at the time of the Civil War and all of them are less than 4 percent African American.
That’s a lot of momentum in the state and federal government to endorse the day, and this year, as the Black Lives Matter protests dominate the headlines, the private sector’s interest in Juneteenth has also risen dramatically. A long list of companies announced Juneteenth would be added as an official paid holiday.
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