On Saturday June 14, 2008 A.I. Prince High Technical School Students honored the Descendants of Connecticut 29th Color Infantry in recognition of Connecticut bill 343; an act designating Juneteenth Independence Day. This bill requires the governor to proclaim the Saturday closest to June 19th of each year as Juneteenth Independence Day in recognition of the formal emancipation of enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865.

See a write-up in TIME magazine on the history of Juneteenth.