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Juneteenth Reading List

Juneteenth remembers the day the last enslaved people were emancipated in the United States on June 19, 1865. Celebrate fiction and nonfiction by African American authors that continue to shape our culture, celebrate liberation, and acknowledge the ongoing work towards freedom and equality.

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15 items

  • BookNew York : Doubleday, [2024] — F
  • Four Hundred Souls

    a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    BookNew York : One World, [2021] — E185 .F625 2021
  • BookNew York : Convergent, [2021] — BR1725.S7449 A3 2021
  • A Little Devil in America

    Notes in Praise of Black Performance

    Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-
    Large PrintWaterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022. — PN1590.B53 A23 2022
  • Stony the Road

    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    Gates, Henry Louis, Jr
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2019. — E185.61 .G253 2019
  • BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2021] — E185.93.T4 G67 2021
  • The Warmth of Other Suns

    the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    Wilkerson, Isabel
    BookNew York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC., 2011. — E185.6 .W685 2011
  • The 1619 Project

    a New Origin Story

    BookNew York : One World, [2021] — E441 .A15 2021
  • BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. — F
  • BookNew York : Random House, [2020] — F
  • Hood Feminism

    Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot

    Kendall, Mikki
    Book[New York] : Viking, [2020] — E185.86 .K46 2020