Section 435.361 – Juneteenth National Freedom Day; Sojourner Truth Day.

435.361 Juneteenth National Freedom Day; Sojourner Truth Day. Sec. 1. (1) The legislature recognizes that slavery existed in this country for more than 200 years. Millions of African-Americans were brought to this country as slaves stacked in the bottom of slave ships in a 5- to 12-week journey across the Atlantic Ocean known as the […]