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• 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

• Stony the Road

  Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,

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  The NAACP Image Award-winning creator of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross presents a revisionist chronicle of America's post-Civil War struggle for racial equality and the violent counterrevolution that re-subjugated black Americans…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On the Other Side of Freedom

  the Case for Hope

  Mckesson, DeRay, 1985-

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  The internationally recognized civil rights activist and popular host of Pod Save the People presents a meditative call to action on resistance, justice and freedom on the front lines of the Black Lives Matter movement.

• Lift Every Voice and Sing

  a Celebration of the African American National Anthem

  Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938,

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• All Different Now

  Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

  Johnson, Angela, 1961-

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  In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.

• Freedom's Gifts

  a Juneteenth Story

  Wesley, Valerie Wilson

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  When a girl from New York visits her cousin in Texas, she learns the origin of Juneteenth, a holiday marking the day Texan slaves realized they were free

• Juneteenth

  Freedom Day

  Branch, Muriel Miller

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  Discusses the origin and present-day celebration of Juneteenth, a holiday marking the day Texan slaves realized they were free.

• Forever Free

  the Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

  Foner, Eric

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  Analyzes the post-Civil War era of emancipation and Reconstruction with an emphasis on discovering the larger political and cultural meaning for contemporary America of the lives of the newly freed slaves and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.

• Sugar

  Rhodes, Jewell Parker

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  In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.

• The People Could Fly

  the Picture Book

  Hamilton, Virginia, 1934-2002

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  In this retelling of a folk tale, black people forced into slavery use magic to spread their wings and fly to freedom.

• Beloved

  a Novel

  Morrison, Toni

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  Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistently haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl.

• Freedom's A-calling Me

  Shange, Ntozake

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  A collection of poems brings to life the treacherous journey of the travelers on the Underground Railroad, in a universal story about the human need to be free.

• Let It Shine

  Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

  Pinkney, Andrea Davis

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  Profiles ten African American women including Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Shirley Chisholm, whose courageous acts against oppression made them leaders in the battle for civil rights.

• Let It Shine

  Three Favorite Spirituals

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  Illustrated versions of three well-known hymns.

• Ardency

  a Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels

  Young, Kevin

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  A poetic epic chronicles the story of the Africans who mutinied on board the slave ship Amistad through different voices, from an interpreter for the rebels to inmates in a New Haven jail who appealed to John Quincy Adams

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

  Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

  Hartman, Saidiya V.,

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  Traces a lesser-known time of radical transformation of black life in early 20th-century America, revealing how a large number of black women forged relationships, families and jobs that were more empowered and typically indifferent to moral…Read moreRead more of this annotation