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Juneteenth

Every June 19 we celebrate the belated freedom of the enslaved people who were not freed with the Emancipation Proclamation. These books about the African-American experience can help us acknowledge our country's history.

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San Mateo Public Library

18 items

  • BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] — 394.26 GOR
  • BookNew York : Sterling Children's Books, [2022] — J LIT POETRY KINCAID-ROLLE
  • The Sounds of Slavery

    Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech

    White, Shane
    BookBoston : Beacon Press, c2005. — 973.04 WHITE
  • Illustrated Black History

    Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen

    McCalman, George,
    BookNew York, NY : Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — 306.09 MCCALMAN
  • The Last Slave Ship

    the True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and An Extraordinary Reckoning

    Raines, Ben,
    BookNew York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2022. — HISTORY US
  • Black Ghost of Empire

    the Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

    Manjapra, Kris, 1978-
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2022. — 326 MAN
  • Barracoon

    the Story of the Last "black Cargo"

    Hurston, Zora Neale
    BookNew York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — 326 HUR
  • Slave Country

    American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South

    Rothman, Adam, 1971-
    BookCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005. — 306.362 ROTHM
  • From Africa to America

    African American History From the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, 1526-1790

    Piersen, William Dillon, 1942-
    BookNew York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall Inernational, c1996. — 973.04 PIERS
  • Creating Black Americans

    African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present

    Painter, Nell Irvin
    BookOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. — 973.04 PAINT
  • Driving the Green Book

    a Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance

    Hall, Alvin, 1952-
    BookNew York, NY : Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — SOC SCI
  • Hard Road to Freedom

    the Story of African America

    Horton, James Oliver
    BookNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001. — 973.04 HORTO
  • Living Black History

    How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future

    Marable, Manning, 1950-
    BookNew York : Basic Civitas, c2006. — 973.04 MARAB
  • African American Poetry

    250 Years of Struggle & Song

    BookNew York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020] — 811.008 AFRIC