WKOW 27: Madison, WI Breaking News, Weather and SportsGovernor Doyle will make Juneteenth an official state holiday
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MILWAUKEE (WKOW)-- Governor Doyle will make Juneteenth an official state holiday.
The signing ceremony will take place in Milwaukee on Tuesday, December 1st at 12:15pm.
"Wisconsin is now the 32nd state to officially recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday or state holiday observance," states Mona Adams Winston, board member of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF) and Co-Chair of the Madison Juneteenth Celebration.
Juneteenth commemorates the day when slaves in the last geographic area in America where slavery existed learned of their freedom. This took place on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas.
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, and issued on January 1, 1863. It took over two and a half years for the news to travel to southwest Texas.
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