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Read, Learn, and Celebrate Juneteenth
The below texts, for both adults and children, provide information on the legacy and history of Juneteenth.
Adult Reading List
- On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
- The Life And Times Of Frederick Douglass by Frederic Douglass
- Barracoon: the Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston
- 1619 A Podcast the New York Times
- 1619 Project, marking the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans arriving in America, the New York Times Magazine
- Wake: The Hidden History Of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall
- Juneteenth Texas: Essays In African American Folklore by Francis Abernethy
- “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “The Societal Frame: A Tool to Address Racism in the Galleries" by Michelle Jordan Antonisse,
- Museums & Race: Transformation and Justice, Reading List on Museums and Race: Transformation and Justice
- For Colored Nerds: Watermelon and Redbirds
- National Archives Safeguards Original 'Juneteenth' General Order
- Juneteenth: The History of a New Holiday (Original 2020, Updated 2022)
Children's Reading List
Grade K–5
- Juneteenth (On My Own Holidays) by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Drew Nelson
- Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
- Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
- Opal Lee and What It Means To Be Free by Alice Faye Duncan (Audiobook) (2022)
Grades 6–12
- Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom by Charles A. Taylor
- Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
- We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson