Juneteenth Reading list

Juneteenth A Reading List, Compiled by The Texas Freedom Colonies Project

Blogs

Bouie, Jamelle. “The Black American Holiday Everyone Should Celebrate but Doesn't.” Slate Magazine.

Slate, June 19, 2015.

Brown, Lynn. “The Story of Juneteenth.” Weblog. Jstor (blog), June 17, 2016.

“Original ‘Juneteenth’ Celebration Witnessed by Illinois 29th Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry By Carl M. Adams.” The Traveler Weekly (blog), 2019.

Fletcher, Rosiland. “Black Students Speak about Juneteenth, Fourth of July.” BG Falcon Media, June 8, 2020.

Videos (YouTube)

Coffee Talk w/ TxFCP: Covid-19 and the Legacy of Juneteenth. Produced by: The Texas Freedom Colonies Project, 2020.

History of Juneteenth, Produced by Allen City TV, 2013.

Know Your History: What Is Juneteenth? Produced by: KHOU11, 2020.

This Is Why Juneteenth Is Important for America. Produced by: The Root, 2018.

What Is Juneteenth? What Is Juneteenth? Produced by: Huff Post, 2018.

Why Celebrate Juneteenth? As a Matter of Conscious... Published by: Kobie Nichols, 2011.

Popular press Bouie, Jamelle. “The Black American Holiday Everyone Should Celebrate but Doesn't.” Slate Magazine.

Slate, June 19, 2015.

Gates, Henry Louis. “What Is Juneteenth? African American History Blog.” PBS. Public Broadcasting Service, September 19, 2013.

Taylor, Derrick Bryson. “So, You Want to Learn About Juneteenth?” The New York Times. The New York Times, June 13, 2020.

Books

Abernethy, Francis Edward., Carolyn Fiedler. Satterwhite, Patrick B. Mullen, and Alan B. Govenar.

Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2010.

Alexander, Kianna, Alyssa Cole, Lena Hart, and Piper Huguley. The Brightest Day: a Juneteenth Historical Romance Anthology. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2015. (Fiction) Blanck, E. Galveston on San Francisco Bay: Juneteenth in the Fillmore District, 1945–2016. The Western Historical Quarterly, 50(2), 85-112. 2019.

Brown, Linda Beatrice. Black Angels. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Young Readers Group, 2009. (YOUNG ADULT FICTION)

Du Bois W. E.B., Vann R. Newkirk, and Steve A. Prince. The Souls of Black Folk. Brooklyn, NY: Restless Books, 2017. by W. E. B. Du Bois Coates, Ts-Nehisi. WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER: an American Tragedy. Penguin Books, 2019.

Davis, Angela Yvonne, and Frank Barat. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016.

Ellison, Ralph. Juneteenth. Penguin, 1999.

Selcer, R. F. A History of Fort Worth in Black & White: 165 Years of African-American Life. University of North Texas Press. (2015).

Sitton, T., & Conrad, J. H. Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow (No. 15). University of Texas Press (2005).

Steptoe, T. L. Houston bound: culture and color in a Jim Crow city (Vol. 41). University of California Press (2005).

Willis, Deborah, and Barbara Krauthammer. Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017.

Wintz, C. D. African Americans in South Texas History. Texas A&M University Press. (2010).

Journal articles and book chapters

Boyd, D. K., Franklin, M., & Myers, T. From Slave to Landowner. ARCHEOLOGY IN TEXAS, 8.

Brackner, E. J., Brandenstein, S., Brice, D. E., Carrigan, W. D., Kossie-Chernyshev, K., Kuhlmann, M., ... & Sapper, N. G. (2019). African Americans in Central Texas History: From Slavery to Civil Rights. Texas A&M University Press.

Donovan, Anne, and Karen De Bres. "Foods of freedom: Juneteenth as a culinary tourist attraction."

Tourism Review International 9, no. 4 (2006): 379-389.

Hume, Janice, and Noah Arceneaux. "Public Memory, Cultural Legacy, and Press Coverage of the Juneteenth Revival." Journalism History 34, no. 3 (2008): 155-162.

Jeffries, Judson L. "Juneteenth, Black Texans, and the case for reparations." Negro Educational Review 55 (2004): 109-118.

Pruitt, B “For the Advancement of the Race” The Great Migrations to Houston, Texas, 1914-1941. Journal of Urban History, 31(4), 435-478 2005.

Roberts, A. The End of Bootstraps and Good Masters: Fostering Social Inclusion by Creating Counternarratives. Columbia University Press. (2020).

Wilkinson, K. G. Yeoman, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914 (Vol. 30). Texas A&M University Press. (2008).

Other Reading Lists The Cincinnati Library’s Juneteenth Reading List Penguin Random House Juneteenth Reading List

Children’s Books

Branch, Muriel Miller., and Willis Branch. Juneteenth: Freedom Day. New York: Cobble hill/Dutton Books, 1998.

Cooper, Floyd, and Brad Sanders. Juneteenth for Mazie. Fairfax, VA: Library Ideas, LLC, 2019.

Johnson, Angela, and Earl B. Lewis. All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014.

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux., Drew Nelson, and Mark Schroder. Juneteenth. Minneapolis, MN: Millbrook, 2011.

Otfinoski, Steven. The Story of Juneteenth: An Interactive History Adventure. North Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2015.

Rinaldi, Ann. Come Juneteenth. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

Taylor, Charles A. Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom. Greensboro, NC: Open Hand Pub., 2002.

Weatherford, Carole Boston, and Yvonne Buchanan. Juneteenth Jamboree. New York: Lee & Low, 2008.

Wesley, Valerie Wilson., and Sharon Wilson. Freedom's Gifts: a Juneteenth Story. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997.