Continuing the promise of Juneteenth: honoring, preserving, and investing in freedmen's settlements.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H. Res. 1309 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1309 Continuing the promise of Juneteenth: honoring, preserving, and investing in freedmen's settlements. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 18, 2024 Ms. Kamlager-Dove (for herself, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Goldman of New York, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Pressley, Ms. Blunt Rochester, and Ms. Moore of Wisconsin) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ RESOLUTION Continuing the promise of Juneteenth: honoring, preserving, and investing in freedmen's settlements. Whereas, on June 18, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration proclaimed the Juneteenth Day of Observance a Federal holiday and defined it as a day to-- (1) commemorate the past; (2) celebrate the emancipation of the formerly enslaved; and (3) remind us of…