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• Island of Color

  Where Juneteenth Started

  Collins, Izola Ethel Fedford, 1929-

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  On this island called Galveston, Texas, African-Americans have a unique position in the history of the world. Natives of this city, and incoming residents, who were people of color, were the pioneers of much of the civilization that occurred in this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remembering the Days of Sorrow

  the WPA and the Texas Slave Narratives

  Goodwin, Ronald E.,

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  Remembering the Days of Sorrow allows the voices of Texas's former slaves to resonate to a new generation as they remembered what it was like to suffer under the yoke of slavery as well as the yoke of old age and poverty in the Great Depression of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Juneteenth Texas

  Essays in African-American Folklore

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  Juneteenth Texas, Publications of the Texas Folklore Society #LIV, received a San Antonio Conservation Society award for the preservation of historic buildings, objects and places relating to the history of Texas and its natural beauty and all that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Juneteenth

  a Novel

  Ellison, Ralph

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  The radiant, posthumous second novel by the visionary author of Invisible Man , featuring an introduction and a new postscript by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson

• On Juneteenth

  Gordon-Reed, Annette

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  Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Till Freedom Cried Out

  Memories of Texas Slave Life

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  Enriched by these illustrations and by an introduction and postscript commentary by editors T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P.Baker, Till Freedom Cried Out presents vivid memories of lives and times inside the bonds of an institution that tried to break…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Story of Juneteenth

  An Interactive History Adventure

  Otfinoski, Steven

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  "In You Choose format, explores the history of Juneteenth Day, including the Emancipation Proclamation, the post-Civil War South, and efforts to end racism"--

• Los Brazos De Dios

  a Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821-1865

  Kelley, Sean M., 1966-

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  With Los Brazos de Dios, Kelley offers the first examination of Texas slavery as a borderland institution and reveals the difficulty with which southern plantation society was transplanted in the West

• Juneteenth

  Crayton, Lisa A.,

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  "Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Across the country, people observe the day with speeches, poetry readings, festivals, picnics, street fairs, and family reunions. It is a day for people to come…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Texas Terror

  the Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South

  Reynolds, Donald E., 1931-

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  In Texas Terror, Donald E. Reynolds offers a deft analysis of these events and illuminates the ways in which this fictionalized conspiracy determined the course of southern secession immediately before the Civil War. As Reynolds explains, all three…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Juneteenth: el fin de la esclavitud en texas (juneteenth)

  Leeper, Angela

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  In Texas, all slaves found out they were free on June 19, 1865. This day is known as Juneteenth. At first, it was a holiday in Texas, but now people celebrate Juneteenth all across the United States. Readers will learn about the history of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Watermelon & Red Birds

  a Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations

  Taylor, Nicole A.,

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• Galveston Unscripted

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• Juneteenth!

  Celebrating Freedom in Texas

  Barrett, Anna Pearl

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  From: School Library Journal Gr 3-6-Juneteenth is observed by many African Americans in recognition of emancipation from slavery. In this story, the author recalls her family's special celebration in 1945, the 80th Juneteenth holiday. It is rich…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Juneteenth

  Koestler-Grack, Rachel A., 1973-

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  "On June 19, 1865 - two years after the Emancipation Proclamation - Galveston, Texas became the last place in the country to learn the slaves were free. Today, Juneteenth is a joyful occasion with parades, speeches, music, and more! This engaging…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Crop

  Slavery and Slave Trading in Nineteenth Century Texas

  McGhee, Fred Lee, 1967-

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  This book re-imagines and re-writes the history of Texas from a modern African-American perspective and asks provocative questions about the role of the Lone Star State in the meaning of American freedom

• Juneteenth for Mazie

  Cooper, Floyd

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  Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.

• Texas Observes Juneteenth

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• Juneteenth

  Celebrating the End of Slavery

  Levy, Janey

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  The story behind the day marking the end of slavery in the US.

• The Laws of Slavery in Texas

  Historical Documents and Essays

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  The Laws of Slavery in Texas makes that examination possible by combining seminal historical essays with excerpts from key legal documents from the slave period and tying them together with interpretive commentary by the foremost scholar on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation