The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act was signed into law, recognizing 19 June as a federal public holiday. The measure gave national status to a commemoration sustained by Black communities. Recognition brought emancipation into the official calendar but did not itself remedy the inequalities that continued after slavery.
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Juneteenth commemorations began only when the federal holiday law was signed in 2021.
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Black communities had sustained the commemoration long before federal recognition.