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PennDOT license, photo centers will be closed for Juneteenth
Pennlive ^ | 11 June A.D. 2021 | Sean Adams

Posted on 06/11/2021 10:18:34 AM PDT by lightman

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has announced their drivers license and photo centers will be closed on June 18 in observance of the Juneteenth holiday.

The closure will include the Riverfront Office Center in Harrisburg, as well as the center in the Summerdale Plaza in Enola. A complete listing of PennDOT driver and photo license center closings is available online.

Customers may still access many driver and vehicle services and forms online through PennDOT’s Driver and Vehicle Services website. These services include driver’s license, photo ID and vehicle registration renewals, changes of address and driver exam scheduling, among others.

Juneteenth honors the date of June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers reached Galveston, Texas and the end of the Civil War. The soldiers freed the enslaved people there who had been kept in bondage two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and two months after Confederate general Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia.

Juneteenth was enshrined as a holiday in 2019 by the Pennsylvania legislature.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: juneteenth; paping; pennsylvania; race; woke
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To: Mouton

Great idea, Mouton.

After all, we are told that the best way to honor Martin Luther King is to do service work on the MLK Day federal holiday.


21 posted on 06/11/2021 11:20:59 AM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: Wallace T.

Several states did ‘rolling’ emancipations, those born after a certain date wold be free on the 21st birthday. Massachusetts slaves won their freedom by lawsuit. A slave sued for her freedom quoting the phrase “all men are created equal”. I don’t know if she cited the MA state constitution or the U.S. Declaration, but it worked.


22 posted on 06/11/2021 12:11:08 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

As I said it was a POLITICAL document. It kept Europe out of the war, and they very much moving to involvement and doing so on the side of the south....

Once the EC was signed European involvement became impossible


23 posted on 06/11/2021 12:24:24 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

As I said it was a POLITICAL document. It kept Europe out of the war,


Not disagreeing with you about that. My point was that Lincoln could justify it as a military measure. Before the E.C. some slaves reaching Union lines were actually sent back to their owners since the Fugitive Slave Act was still the law.

Lincoln’s portion was complex and sometimes contradictory. He held the southern states had no Constitutional right to leave the Union and therefore hadn’t. War was never declared because that would imply that the C.S.A. was in fact a nation. Yet when the war ended, Lincoln put conditions (much lighter than what came to be after he died) on states being readmitted.

But by the E.C. making the war about ending slavery rather than preserving the Union, the E.C. did keep Europe from getting involved or even recognizing C.S.A. independence.


24 posted on 06/11/2021 12:41:40 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: lightman

Another day off for state employees


25 posted on 06/11/2021 12:45:04 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Chelsea Dagger)
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