Juneteenth is celebrated on Saturday, June 19, 2021 to commemorate the ending of slavery. Below we list some titles that can help you learn more about slave history and the fight to end it. Click on each title to find it in our catalog:
Adult Fiction
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Cane River by Lalita Tandemy
Adult Nonfiction
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
A Question of Freedom: The families who challenged slavery from the nation’s founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III
Youth & Teen
Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly by Joyce Hansen
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the first day of freedom by Angela Johnson
Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
Freedom Over Me: Eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life by Ashley Bryan
Silent Thunder by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
Movies and Television
The Book of Negros (TV Series)
12 Years a Slave (Movie)
Roots (TV Series 2016)
Roots (TV Series 2007)
Harriet (Movie)