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Juneteenth

Juneteenth: Freedom Day. Features red, gold, and green striped hearts, and a graphic of two dark-skinned hands with a breaking red, gold, and green chain

Juneteenth is a federal holiday acknowledging the emancipation of the enslaved population in the United States.  According to the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, “on June 19, 1865, nearly two years after President Abraham Lincoln emancipated enslaved Africans in America, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas with news of freedom. More than 250,000 African Americans embraced freedom by executive decree in what became known as Juneteenth, or Freedom Day.” Since then, celebrations have taken place annually on June 19. Texas was the first state to acknowledge Juneteenth as a state holiday, starting in 1980. It became federally recognized in 2021 when the 117th U.S. Congress enacted and President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.

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Here are some books in the BCPL collection that relate to Juneteenth. Check out the fiction for stories based on what happened in history, and nonfiction for the historical facts, biographies, and narratives. 

Fiction:

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Angelou, Maya
  • Conjure Women- Atakora, Afia
  • If Beale Street Could Talk- Baldwin, James
  • The Vanishing Half- Bennett, Brit
  • Kindred- Butler, Octavia E.
  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker- Chiaverini, Jennifer
  • The Water Dancer : a novel- Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  • The House Girl- Conklin, Tara
  • Washington Black- Edugyan, Esi
  • Juneteenth- Ellison, Ralph
  • James : a novel- Everett, Percival
  • Homegoing- Gyasi, Yaa
  • Yellow Wife- Johnson, Sadeqa
  • The Known World- Jones, Edward P.
  • The Invention of Wings- Kidd, Sue Monk
  • Beloved- Morrison, Toni
  • Hell of a Book : or the Altogether Factual, Wholly Bona Fide Story of a Big Dreams, Hard Luck, American-Made Mad Kid- Mott, Jason
  • Come Juneteenth- Rinaldi, Ann (YA)
  • Red River- Tademy, Lalita
  • The Color Purple- Alice Walker
  • The Underground Railroad- Whitehead, Colson

 

Nonfiction:

  • A Black women's history of the United States- Berry, Daina Ramey 305.4889 BERRY
  • How far to the promised land : one Black family's story of hope and survival in the American South- McCaulley, Esau 305.569 MCCAULLEY
  • Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America- Kendi, Ibram X. 305.8009 KENDI
  • The strange career of William Ellis : the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire- Jacoby, Karl 306.362 JACOBY
  • Night flyer : Harriet Tubman and the faith dreams of a free people- Miles, Tiya 306.362 TUBMAN M
  • Rooted : the American legacy of land theft and the modern movement for Black land ownership- Baker, Brea 333.335 BAKER
  • Freedom's detective : the Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the man who masterminded America's first war on terror- Lane, Charles 363.283 LANE
  • Black food : stories, art & recipes from across the African diaspora- Terry, Bryant  394.12 BLACK
  • On Juneteenth- Gordon-Reed, Annette 394.263 GORDON
  • Juneteenth- Winn, Kevin P. YA 394.263 WINN
  • We are each other's harvest : celebrating African American farmers, land, and legacy- Baszile, Natalie 630.8996 BASZILE
  • Watermelon & red birds : a cookbook for Juneteenth and Black celebrations- Taylor, Nicole A. 641.5929 TAYLOR
  • Black smoke : African Americans and the United States of barbecue- Miller, Adrian  641.76 MILLER
  • A little devil in America : notes in praise of black performance- Abdurraqib, Hanif 791.0899 ABDURRAQIB
  • Nature swagger : stories and visions of Black joy in the outdoors- Mapp, Rue  796.5019 MAPP
  • Stony the road : reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. 973.0496 GATES
  • The 1619 Project : a new origin story- Hannah-Jones, Nikole 973 SIXTEEN
  • Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019- Kendi, Ibram X. 973.0496 FOUR
  • How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America- Smith, Clint 973.0496 SMITH
  • The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration- Wilkerson, Isabel 973.0496 WILKERSON
  • Envisioning emancipation : Black Americans and the end of slavery- Willis, Deborah  973.714 WILLIS
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