NewsJune 18, 2021
Mo. state workers given day off for Juneteenth
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri state offices will be closed today in honor of Juneteenth, a new national holiday commemorating the end of slavery. The Missouri Office of Administration announced the closures Thursday, after President Joe Biden signed a law declaring Juneteenth a federal holiday...
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri state offices will be closed today in honor of Juneteenth, a new national holiday commemorating the end of slavery.
The Missouri Office of Administration announced the closures Thursday, after President Joe Biden signed a law declaring Juneteenth a federal holiday.
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The new holiday commemorates July 19, 1865, when freed slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned the Civil War was over and they were free -- two months after the Confederacy had surrendered.
It's the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983.
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