Juneteenth

Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) has historically been celebrated as the day U.S. federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to ensure that enslaved people there would be freed. In 1980, Texas became the first state to recognize Juneteenth as a holiday. Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021.

Children
	All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
	Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
	Let's Celebrate Emancipation Day & Juneteenth by Barbara deRubertis
	The Story of Juneteenth: An Interactive History Adventure by Steven Otfinoski
Young Adult
	Miss Juneteenth
	Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates with Tonya Bolden
	Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron
	Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron (eBook)
Adults
	On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
	How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
	Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
	Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller
	Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel