The Rhino Times believes most people can agree that Juneteenth is not the best name for a holiday; however, great name or not, a holiday it is. And thus the City of Greensboro, like many other entities, will be largely shut down that day.
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that enslaved people there were free. That was more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
The holiday became a federal holiday in 2021, when former President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law on June 17 of that year…