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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Free at Last
a Juneteenth Poem
The Sounds of Slavery
Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
Illustrated Black History
Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
The Last Slave Ship
the True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and An Extraordinary Reckoning
Black Ghost of Empire
the Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
From Slavery to Freedom
a History of African Americans
Sweet Taste of Liberty
a True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Barracoon
the Story of the Last "black Cargo"
Slave Country
American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
From Africa to America
African American History From the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, 1526-1790
Africans in America
America's Journey Through Slavery
Creating Black Americans
African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
Driving the Green Book
a Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
Hard Road to Freedom
the Story of African America
Living Black History
How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future
African American Poetry
250 Years of Struggle & Song
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