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Juneteenth

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves living in Confederate states, but it was not until after the end of the Civil War, on June 19, 1865, that the final slaves were freed in Galveston, Texas. Juneteenth commemorates this day and encourages us to consider what freedom really means. This is the time for us to examine the experiences of Black people throughout American history and to determine how we will build a more equal future. "Nobody's free until everybody's free." - Fannie Lou Hamer

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31 items

  • How the Word Is Passed

    a Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

    Smith, Clint,
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — 973.0496 S644h 2021
  • Wake

    the Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts

    Hall, Rebecca, 1963-
    BookNew York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 741.5973 H178w 2021
  • BookNew York : Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020] — ATAKO A
  • Barracoon

    the Story of the Last "black Cargo"

    Hurston, Zora Neale,
    BookNew York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] — 306.362092 L673h 2018
  • The Purpose of Power

    How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

    Garza, Alicia, 1981-
    BookNew York : One World, [2020] — 303.484 G245p 2020
  • BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. — GYASI Y
  • Hood Feminism

    Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot

    Kendall, Mikki
    eBook2020.
  • BookNew York : Modern Library, [2021] — ELLIS R
  • The Warmth of Other Suns

    the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    Wilkerson, Isabel
    BookNew York : Random House, c2010. — 304.8 W681w 2010
  • All That She Carried

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

    Miles, Tiya
    Streaming AudiobookNew York : Random House Audio, 2021.
  • The 1619 Project

    a New Origin Story

    BookNew York : One World, [2021] — 973 S625p 2021
  • Stony the Road

    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2019. — 973.0496 G259s 2019