Twitter, Square make Juneteenth a company holiday
Jun. 10, 2020 5:07 AM ETTwitter, Inc. (TWTR)By: Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor
- "Both Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and Square (NYSE:SQ) are making #Juneteenth (June 19th) a company holiday in the US, forevermore. A day for celebration, education, and connection," reads a tweetfrom CEO Jack Dorsey.
- The holiday commemorates the end of slavery in America.
- On that day in 1865, Union General Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation to the public in Galveston, Texas, a full two and a half years after it was issued by Abraham Lincoln.