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• Juneteenth for Mazie

  Cooper, Floyd

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  Picture book about a young girl who learns about Juneteenth and her family history as slaves.

• All Different Now

  Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

  Johnson, Angela, 1961-

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  Picture book from the point of view of a young girl on Juneteenth as the news of freedom reaches the slaves of Texas.

• Juneteenth Jamboree

  Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-

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  Cassandra moves to her parent’s hometown in Texas and learns about the Juneteenth holiday for the first time.

• Juneteenth

  a Novel

  Ellison, Ralph

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  Novel by the literary legend Ralph Ellison (Author of "The Invisible Man") that follows the assassination of a racist white senator by a young black man in the 1950s. The complex story explores racial identity of the time and makes a keen parallel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Juneteenth Jamboree | PBS

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  The first African slave in Texas arrived in 1528 with a shipwrecked party of Spanish Conquistadors, but it took until the 19th of June in 1865 to bring slavery's end to Texas. (And it took all of 1865 to end all slavery in the United States.)…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Legacy of Juneteenth: The Current Struggle for Black Liberation in Seattle - YouTube

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  A video of the Seattle Central College Library event from 2019.