Editing Juneteenth (section)

====Becoming a federal holiday====
[[File:President Biden signs Juneteenth National Independence Day into law.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, June 17, 2021. [[Opal Lee]] is third from left.]]
In 1996, the first federal legislation to recognize "Juneteenth Independence Day" was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.J.&nbsp;Res.&nbsp;195, sponsored by [[Barbara-Rose Collins]] (D-MI). In 1997, Congress recognized the day through Senate Joint Resolution&nbsp;11 and House Joint Resolution&nbsp;56. In 2013, the U.S. Senate passed Senate Resolution&nbsp;175, acknowledging Lula Briggs Galloway (late president of the National Association of Juneteenth Lineage), who "successfully worked to bring national recognition to Juneteenth Independence Day", and the continued leadership of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation.<ref name="sr175">{{cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-resolution/175/text |title=S.Res.175 – A resolution observing Juneteenth Independence Day, June 19, 1865, the day on which slavery finally came to an end in the United States |website=United States Congress |date=June 19, 2013 |access-date=June 19, 2015 |archive-date=July 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718091356/https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-resolution/175/text |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the 2000s and 2010s, activists continued a long process to push Congress towards official recognition of Juneteenth.<ref>{{cite journal|first=E.H.|last=Turner|title=Juneteenth: The Evolution of an Emancipation Celebration|journal=European Contributions to American Studies|volume=65|date=2006|pages=69–81}}</ref> Organizations such as the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation sought a Congressional designation of Juneteenth as a national day of observance.<ref name="gates"/> By 2016, 45 states were recognizing the occasion.<ref name=AARP/> Activist [[Opal Lee]], often referred to as the "grandmother of Juneteenth",<ref name=AARP2022>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[AARP Magazine]] |title=The Grandmother of Juneteenth |issue=June/July 2022 |page=21 |author=David Hochman}}</ref> campaigned for decades to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, leading walks in many states to promote the idea.<ref name = NPR>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1007498876/how-juneteenth-became-national-holiday|title=One Woman's Decades-Long Fight To Make Juneteenth A U.S. Holiday|last=Romo|first=Vanessa|date=June 17, 2021|work=NPR|access-date=June 19, 2023|archive-date=April 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418131036/https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1007498876/how-juneteenth-became-national-holiday|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2016–17 at the age of 89, she led a symbolic walk from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington D.C. to advocate for the federal holiday.<ref name=AARP/><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Jackson|first=Angelique|date=June 17, 2021|title=Why 94-Year-Old Activist Opal Lee Marched to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2021/politics/features/activist-opal-lee-juneteenth-holiday-1234998507|access-date=June 18, 2021|archive-date=June 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617233620/https://variety.com/2021/politics/features/activist-opal-lee-juneteenth-holiday-1234998507/|url-status=live}}</ref> When it was officially made a federal holiday on June 17, 2021, she was standing beside President [[Joe Biden]] as he signed the bill.<ref name = NPR/>

Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January&nbsp;1), Independence Day (July&nbsp;4), Veterans Day (November&nbsp;11), and Christmas Day (December&nbsp;25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since [[Martin Luther King Jr. Day]] was declared a holiday in 1986.<ref>{{cite web |title=Juneteenth: US to add federal holiday marking end of slavery |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57493282 |access-date=June 17, 2021 |work=BBC News |date=June 17, 2021 |archive-date=June 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616032005/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57493282 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="auto2">{{cite news |last1=Broadwater |first1=Luke |title=Bill to Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday Heads to Biden's Desk |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/16/us/politics-news |access-date=June 17, 2021 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 16, 2021 |archive-date=June 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617135314/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/16/us/politics-news |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=BlackInd>{{cite web |title=Biden signs into law bill establishing Juneteenth as federal holiday |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-signs-law-bill-establishing-juneteenth-federal-holiday-n1271213 |access-date=June 17, 2021 |work=NBC News |date=June 17, 2021 |archive-date=June 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618124640/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-signs-law-bill-establishing-juneteenth-federal-holiday-n1271213 |url-status=live }}</ref> Juneteenth also falls within the statutory [[Honor America Days]] period, which lasts for 21 days from [[Flag Day (United States)|Flag Day]] (June 14) to [[Independence Day (United States)|Independence Day]] (July 4).