Denver (Kdvr) – Entry fees for everyone 63 of the national parks of the nation It will be waived on Thursday, as it salutes the National Park Service Juvenenet.
Today is known as many names – the day of the black independence, the day of liberation, on the day of the jubilee – but the reason for celebrating it remains as it is: the memory of the day when the last African Americans learned that they are no longer worshipers.
President Abraham Lincoln had already signed the declaration of liberation, which became official from January 1, 1863, but African people who were in Galviestone, Texas, learned of the announcement years after June 19, 1865, when he led union soldiers to the city with the news that the civil war had ended and installed.
In light of the holiday, all national gardens will be waived in the United States.
Juntenth became a federal holiday in 2021 with legislation signed by former President Joe Biden.
He said at that time: “All Americans can feel strongly this day, and learn from our history.”
This was the first new national holiday in nearly 40 years, according to the New York Times, since Martin Luther King’s birthday became a holiday in 1983.