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Ogilvie’s successor, Gov. Dan Walker, signed a bill creating the legal holiday while also approving a measure to prohibit the state from ordering busing to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
In 1894, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday and President Grover Cleveland signed it into law.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
By 1894, 23 more states had adopted the holiday, and on June 28, 1884, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2023
Senate Bill 350 called for marking Juneteenth Independence Day as a legal holiday to commemorate the day when slaves finally learned that they had been freed.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
In 1894, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday and President Grover Cleveland signed it into law.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
By 1894, 23 more states had adopted the holiday, and on June 28, 1884, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2023
Senate Bill 350 called for marking Juneteenth Independence Day as a legal holiday to commemorate the day when slaves finally learned that they had been freed.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022
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