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Proclamation Juneteenth.pdf
PROCLAMATION:
• O* Recognizing
Day of Celebration and Reflection - June 19,, 2021
June 15, 2021 - REGULAR MEETING OF THE MOUNT
PROSPECT VILLAGE BOARD -
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PROCLAMATION
RECOGNIZING JUNETEENTH
AS A DAY OF CELEBRATION AND REFLECTION
JUNE 19, 2021
WHEREAS, our country is made up of people from every
nation on earth, who are declared equal not only in freedom
but also in justice, both which are essential for a healthy
human civilization; and
WHEREAS, on June 19, 1865 Union Major General Gordon
Granger landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the
American Civil War had ended two and a half years prior with
the signing of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
on January 1, 1863 and that the enslaved are now free; and
WHEREAS, the Emancipation Proclamation made the
permanent abolition of slavery and provided the legal
framework for emancipation of nearly all four million enslaved
people as the Union armies advanced; and
WHEREAS, hearing of the Proclamation, many enslaved
people escaped to Union lines as the army units moved south;
and
WHEREAS, settling into these new areas as free men and
women brought on new realities and the challenges of
establishing a heretofore non-existent status for black people
in America for President Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson
overturned the order that has provided 40,000 freed men
with 400,000 acres of land entitled to them and provided it
to the very planters that had declared war on the United
States years prior; and
WHEREAS, recounting the memoires of that great day in
June of 1865 would serve as motivation as well as a release
from the growing pressures encountered in their new
territory; and
WHEREAS, in 1997 the United States Congress passed
Senate Joint Resolution 11 and House Joint Resolution 56,
officially recognizing Juneteenth Independence Day, along
with 45 other states and the District of Columbia declaring it
an official holiday; and
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WHEREAS, June 1911 which became known as Juneteenth is
celebration of African American freedom and achievement;
and
WHEREAS, the Village of Mount Prospect supports the
celebration of Juneteenth as day of celebration of African
American freedom and achievement.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Paul Wm. Hoefert, Mayor of the
Village of Mount Prospect, do hereby proclaim June 19, 2021
as Juneteenth in the Village of Mount Prospect and urge all
residents to participate fittingly in its observance through
listening, learning, celebrating and taking action to create a
more equal and just society.
Paul Wm. Hoefert
Mayor
ATTEST:
Karen M. Agoranos
Village Clerk
Dated this 15TH day of June 15, 2021
KJ