Comments on: Juneteenth legislation signed into law http://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2009/12/03/juneteenth-legislation-signed-into-law/ "THE NEWSPAPER YOU CAN TRUST SINCE 1964" Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:18:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ronald Myers http://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2009/12/03/juneteenth-legislation-signed-into-law/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Ronald Myers Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:13:53 +0000 http://milwaukeecourieronline.com/?p=211#comment-7 The passage of legislation to establish Juneteenth as a legal holiday in Wisconsin gives state employees the choice of taking Juneteenth Day off or another designated legal holiday. State offices remain open and there is no aditional cost to the state of Wisconsin. Juneteenth is America’s 2nd Independence Day celebration. Americans of African descent were trapped in the tyranny of enslavement on the country’s first “4th of July”, 1776, Independence Day. We honor our ancestors, Americans of African descent, who heard the news of freedom and celebrated with great joy and jubilation, on the “19th of June”, Juneteenth, 1865. It took over 88 years for the news of freedom to be announced in Southwest Texas, over two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln. The National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign has worked diligently for years to establish legislation in 32 states to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday (legal holiday in Texas and Wisconsin) or state holiday observance (like Flag Day or Patriot Day in 30 other states), the District of Columbia, as well as the Congress of the United States. Together we will see Juneteenth become a National Holiday in America! “DOC” Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D. Chairman National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF) National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC) The passage of legislation to establish Juneteenth as a legal holiday
in Wisconsin gives state employees the choice of taking Juneteenth Day off or another designated legal holiday. State offices remain open and there is no aditional cost to the state of Wisconsin.

Juneteenth is America’s 2nd Independence Day celebration. Americans of African descent were trapped in the tyranny of enslavement on the country’s first “4th of July”, 1776, Independence Day. We honor our ancestors, Americans of African descent, who heard the news of freedom and celebrated with great joy and jubilation, on the “19th of June”, Juneteenth, 1865.

It took over 88 years for the news of freedom to be announced in Southwest Texas, over two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln.

The National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign has worked diligently for years to establish legislation in 32 states to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday (legal holiday in Texas and Wisconsin) or state holiday observance (like Flag Day or Patriot Day in 30 other states), the District of Columbia, as well as the Congress of the United States.

Together we will see Juneteenth become a National Holiday in America!

“DOC”
Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D.
Chairman
National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign
National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF)
National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC)

]]> By: Anthony Farrell http://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2009/12/03/juneteenth-legislation-signed-into-law/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Anthony Farrell Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:44:01 +0000 http://milwaukeecourieronline.com/?p=211#comment-5 Awesome, another official legal holiday based on celebration of civil rights! Now we just need to come up with legal holidays for the remaining days of the year which do yet not have one, and we'll never have to work again! Awesome, another official legal holiday based on celebration of civil rights! Now we just need to come up with legal holidays for the remaining days of the year which do yet not have one, and we’ll never have to work again!

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