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Juneteenth 2023: What’s open and closed on Monday for the federal holidayFor beginners and those brushing up history, here's how the holiday came to be and how you can mark the occasion. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed.A young girl sits on a man's shoulders during the Louisville Juneteenth Festival at the Big Four Lawn on June 19, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images) Although President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in 1863, it could not be enforced in many places in the South until the Civil War ended in 1865. Even then, some white people who had profited from their unpaid labor were reluctant to share the news.Laura Smalley, freed from a plantation near Bellville, Texas, remembered in a 1941 interview that the man she referred to as "old master" came home from fighting in the Civil War and didn’t tell the people he enslaved what had happened."Old master didn’t tell, you know, they was free," Smalley said.

removed its statues of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

NEW YORK, USA - JUNE 18: A new Federal Holiday ''Juneteenth'' is celebrated in the heart of Harlem, New York City, United States on June 18, 2021. President Biden signed legislation making June 19, or Juneteenth, a new national holiday.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - The Virginia mansion where Robert E. Lee once lived that now overlooks Arlington National Cemetery is open to the public again, after a $12 million rehabilitation and reinterpretation that includes an increased emphasis on those who were enslaved there.The National Park Service opened Arlington House to the public on Tuesday for the first time since 2018.

WASHINGTON – The push to remove Confederate names from Pentagon properties, including storied Army posts, could eventually affect hundreds of items and facilities, the chair of the congressionally chartered Naming Commission said Friday.

NEW YORK – When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee.

WASHINGTON – A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has approved a bill to remove statues of Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders from the U.S.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that his administration “would not even consider” renaming various military bases like North Carolina's Fort Bragg that honor Confederate officers who led the fight against the Union and directly or implicitly defended slavery.Trump’s announcement came as Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, both former Army officers, put out word through their spokesmen that they are “open to a bipartisan discussion” of renaming the bases. Ten major Army installations are named for Confederate Army officers, mostly senior generals, including Robert E. Lee.

RICHMOND, Va. – RICHMOND, Va.Workers for the state of Virginia inspected Richmond's huge statue of Gen. Robert E.

Richmond, the hometown that once denied Ashe access to segregated public tennis courts.Finally, in 2019, the City Council approved the renaming over the objections of some city residents. So it was gratifying, Harris said, to see Virginia‘s governor announce plans to remove an iconic statue of Confederate Gen.

RICHMOND, VA - AUGUST 25: A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, is photographed at the center of Lee Circle along Monument Avenue on Friday, August 25, 2017, in Richmond, VA. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)