LEARN ABOUT JUNETEENTH
- 'Juneteenth' Marks Day Slaves In Texas Were Told They Were FreeNPR, June 19, 2015
- "Juneteenth."Gerald David Jaynes, Encyclopedia of African American Society, SAGE, 2005.
- "What is Juneteenth?"by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- "The Birth of Juneteenth; Voices of the Enslaved"by Neely Tucker, Library of Congress, June 19, 2020
- Juneteenth Fact SheetCongressional Research Service (CRS) Report, updated June 3, 2020
- Juneteenth | TSLACInformation about Juneteenth, from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission
- "Black Joy—Not Corporate Acknowledgment—Is the Heart of Juneteenth"Kellie Carter Jackson, The Atlantic, June 19, 2020
- "Growing Up With Juneteenth"by Annette Gordon-Reed, The New Yorker, June 19, 2020
- How We Juneteenth (collection of stories)New York Times, June 19, 2020
- "Public Memory, Cultural Legacy, and Press Coverage of the Juneteenth Revival"Janice Hume and Noah Arcenaux, Journalism History 34, no. 3 (2008): 155-162.
- Juneteenth 2020 Live UpdatesNew York Times
- 2020 Juneteenth CelebrationBlack Heritage Trail of New Hampshire
- Juneteenth: MFA Community CelebrationBoston Museum of Fine Arts
- "Juneteenth" (Poem)by Kamau Daaood
- "Juneteenth 2009" (Poem)by Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd
FURTHER RESOURCES
- Voice Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their StoriesFrom the Library of Congress, "The recordings of former slaves in Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine states. Twenty-three interviewees discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond."
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938From the Library of Congress, "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938" contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
- Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice This link opens in a new window
Date(s): 1490-2008
Primary sources created by and about enslaved individuals and abolition movements. - Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window
Date(s): 1600-2000
Primary sources created by and about enslaved individuals and the practice of slavery around the world.
ORIGINAL JUNETEENTH ORDER
- "Original ‘Juneteenth’ order found in the National Archives"Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, June 18, 2020. Also available on Boston.com.
VIDEO: CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH
Lonnie Bunch III, Founding Director of the National Museum of African American History & Culture, leads a virtual tour through the Museum's "Slavery and Freedom" exhibition, in celebration of Juneteenth. Highlights from the tour include Nat Turners' Bible, freedom papers of free African Americans, a Sibley tent that housed African Americans who ran from Southern plantations in search of freedom with the Union army.
VIDEO: HISTORY OF JUNETEENTH AND WHY IT RESONATES TODAY
(From the Washington Post, June 19, 2019).