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Juneteenth

On June 19th, 1865, the last of the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were told by Union soldiers that they were free, two years following the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln. Learn more about and celebrate Juneteenth with these books from your library.

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  • Book, 2021New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] — 394.263 GOR
  • Stony the Road

    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    Gates, Henry Louis, Jr
    Book, 2019New York : Penguin Press, 2019. — 973.0496 GAT
  • The Warmth of Other Suns

    the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    Wilkerson, Isabel
    Book, 2010New York : Random House, c2010. — 304.8097 WIL
  • Book, 2020New York : Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020] — F ATA
  • Rooted

    the American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership

    Baker, Brea,
    Book, 2024New York : One World, [2024] — 333.335 BAK
  • Braided Heritage

    Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine

    Harris, Jessica B.,
    Book, 2025New York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, [2025] — 641.5973 HAR
  • Four Hundred Souls

    a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    Book, 2021New York : One World, [2021] — 973.0496 FOU
  • Paperback, 2004New York : Vintage International/Vintage Books, 2004. — F MOR
  • Book, 2019New York : Saga Press, 2019. — F SOL
  • The Purpose of Power

    How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

    Garza, Alicia, 1981-
    Book, 2020New York : One World, [2020] — 303.484 GAR
  • All That She Carried

    the Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

    Miles, Tiya, 1970-
    Book, 2021New York : Random House, 2021. — 306.362 MIL
  • Book, 2021Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021. — F GRE
  • Black Smoke

    African Americans and the United States of Barbecue

    Miller, Adrian,
    Book, 2021Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021] — 641.7609 MIL
  • Stamped

    Racism, Antiracism, and You

    Reynolds, Jason
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — YA305.8009 REY
  • Book, 1999New York : Random House, c1999. — F ELL
  • The Senator and the Sharecropper

    the Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

    Asch, Chris Myers
    Book, 2008New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2008. — 305.8009 ASC
  • Bird Uncaged

    An Abolitionist's Freedom Song

    Peterson, Marlon
    Book, 2021New York : Bold Type Books, 2021. — B PET