The nineteenth made a public holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the US

President Joe Biden has signed the Sixteenth Amendment to mark the end of US slavery.

Biden held a signing ceremony at the White House on Thursday afternoon, after a bill dated June 19 a new holiday passed the House of Representatives and Senate with the help of bipartisan.

“The nations of the world are not trying to save their lives. He embraces them, “Biden said in a statement before signing.

“Big nations don’t move,” he added. “We acknowledge the mistakes we have made, and when we remember that time, we begin to recover.”

Sixteenth, a new holiday since Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday was announced in 1983, will bring the number to 11. Unnecessary government offices are closed and government employees are given paid days. public holiday, which are often identified by their employers.

On Saturday, the keynote address from June 19, commemorates the day 1865 when Union troops delivered the issue of slave freedom to Texas more than two months after the end of the US Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Declaration, declaring that slaves were free, more than two years earlier.

The memorials came from Texas but eventually spread to the US. The day was welcomed by American companies following the assassination of George Floyd, a black man, a Minneapolis police officer last year.

“With this in mind Congress is making sure that one of the most important things in our history, especially the black people of America, for 150 years now has been officially recognized and recorded in our old books and takes its rightful place in our country,” said Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House. Wednesday said before the election in Congress.

The seventh law passed the House of Representatives led by a Democrat with a vote of 415-14 late Wednesday after being approved by the Senate on the basis of a process called consensus, meaning no cinematics opposed it. It will be the law when it is signed by the president.

The 14 members of the House that opposed the ordinance were all Republicans, including representatives of Mo Brooks of Alabama, Chip Roy of Texas and Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

The law comes at a time when lawmakers are arguing with the federation police reform The order was first written after Floyd was assassinated in May 2020.

Biden asked Congress to introduce George Floyd Justice in Policing Act on the day of Floyd’s death. But lawmakers missed a deadline due to temporary disagreements over proper security, a principle that protects police from being held accountable for their actions.

Tim Scott, a Republican senator from South Carolina, and Cory Booker, a Democratic senator from New Jersey – only two black senators in their 100th chamber – led the talks and went on to say that an agreement could be reached.