Books for Children: PreSchool – 6th Grade
Juneteenth for Mazie, Floyd Cooper
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the first day of freedom, Angela Johnson
Juneteenth, Kevin P. Winn
Juneteenth, Lisa A. Crayton
Juneteenth, R.J. Bailey
Juneteenth, Emily J. Dolbear
The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the end of slavery in the United States, Alliah L. Agostini
Free at Last: a Juneteenth poem, Sojourner Kincaid-Rolle
Opal Lee and What it Means to be Free; the true story of the grandmother of Juneteenth, Alice Faye Duncan
Books For Teens:
Crossing Ebenezer Creek by Tonya Bolden
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden
Adult Level Books
Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration, Edward Cotham
On Juneteenth, Annette Gordon-Reed
Juneteenth: a Novel, Ralph Ellison
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Four hundred Souls: a Community History of African America, 1619 – 2019, Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations, Nicole Taylor
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”, Zora Neale Hurston
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Douglas A. Blackmon
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope, DeRay Mckesson
You Don’t Know Us Negroes: and Other Essays, Zora Neale Hurston
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, William Caleb McDaniel
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, Nikole Hannah-Jones & The New York Times
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the making of American Capitalism, Edward E. Baptist
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives, Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy, Damien Cave, Rachel L. Swarns
The Brightest Day: A Juneteenth Historical Romance Anthology, Kianner Alexander et al., (limited print availability)
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Juneteenth for Maisie
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