Sen. Casey Calls for Federal Government to Recognize Juneteenth as Holiday
June 20, 2020
June 20, 2020
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, June 20 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, issued the following statement to commemorate Juneteenth:
"On Juneteenth, we commemorate President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on the day--June 19, 1865--when news of emancipation reached people in the deepest parts of the former Confederacy in Galveston, Texas.
"This day came two months after the end of the Civil War and more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, . . .
"On Juneteenth, we commemorate President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on the day--June 19, 1865--when news of emancipation reached people in the deepest parts of the former Confederacy in Galveston, Texas.
"This day came two months after the end of the Civil War and more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, . . .