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The History and Meaning of Juneteenth
Produced by The Daily accessed through ProQuest
Biden signs legislation establishing Juneteenth as federal holiday
Produced by the Washington Post accessed through ProQuest
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Carlotta Walls LaNier
Produced by HistoryMakers
Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African American Folklore
edited by Francis Edward Abernethy et al
Juneteenth Celebrations Across America
Produced by the Washington Post accessed through ProQuest
Juneteenth Resources
Curated by the National Museum of African American History and Culture
E-Book titles available for online reading
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave
By Frederick Douglass
More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States
By Imani Perry
Roots the saga of an American family: the 30th anniversary edition
By William Still
Take Back What the Devil Stole : An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World
By Onaje X. O. Woodbine
We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter
By Terrence L Johnson
Banking on freedom : black women in U.S. finance before the New Deal
By Shennette Garrett-Scott
The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
By Robert J Cottrol
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: a political companion to Invisible man
edited by Lucas E. Morel
They were her property: white women as slave owners in the American South
By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: the art of the African American essay
By Cheryl A. Wall
More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States
By Imani Perry
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. du Bois
Critical Introduction by Patricia H. Hinchey
Physical books on our shelves in Healey Library
The cause of freedom : a concise history of African Americans
By Jonathan Scott Holloway
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration
By Isabel Wilkerson
Envisioning emancipation : Black Americans and the end of slavery
By Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer
Slavery and public history : the tough stuff of American memory
Edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
By Zora Neale Hurston ; edited by Deborah G. Plant ; foreword by Alice Walker
The beautiful struggle : a father, two sons and an unlikely road to manhood
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black reconstruction : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880
By W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
Black boy (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
By Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr
To 'joy my freedom : Southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War
By Tera W. Hunter
Brotherman : the odyssey of black men in America
Edited by Herb Boyd and Robert Allen ; illustrations by Tom Feelings
Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present
By Harriet A. Washington
Selections curated from Healey Library's collection by Ann Marie D. Shafer & Roxann Harvey, June 2022. Updated by Roxann Harvey, June 2023
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