Target and Nike offer Juneteenth as paid holiday, joining other national companies
Source: Miami Herald
Target is joining other companies in recognizing Juneteenth as a paid national holiday, the company said on Monday.
Target stores will be open on June 19, or Juneteenth, the oldest holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S.
On that day in 1865, Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read an order, which said, in part: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”
Texas was the the most remote of the Southern states with enslaved people — almost 250,000 — and though the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted on Jan. 1, 1963, giving enslaved people their freedom, many of those enslaved in Texas had never been told they were free, according to multiple historical accounts, including from juneteenth.com.
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