Denver (KDVR) – Admission fees for all 63 people at the national park will be exempt from Thursday as the National Park Service will be commemorated in June.
This day is known by many names – Black Independence Day, Liberation Day, Jubilee Day – but the reason for celebrating it is to commemorate the day the last African Americans learned they were no longer enslaved.
President Abraham Lincoln had already signed the Emancipation Declaration, but as of January 1, 1863, it became official, but the African people of Galveston, Texas learned of the declaration on June 19, 1865.
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In light of the holidays, fees entering all national parks in the United States are exempt. Florida has three national parks: Biscayne, Drite Lutugas and Everglades.
June became a federal public holiday in a law signed by former President Joe Biden in 2021.
“Every American can feel the power of this day and learn from our history,” he said at the time.
The New York Times was the first new national holiday in nearly 40 years since Martin Luther King’s birthday became a national holiday in 1983.
