Dear Highlanders,

NJIT is proud to celebrate Juneteenth (being observed by the university on Friday, June 21), a federal and state holiday that commemorates the day (June 19, 1865) when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and brought news that enslaved Black people in Texas were free. This officially ended slavery in the United States more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

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