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• Juneteenth | National Museum of African American History and Culture

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  Senses of Freedom: Exploring the Tastes, Sounds and Experiences of an African American Celebration

• What is Juneteenth, and why is it important? - Karlos K. Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio - YouTube

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  Get to know the history of Juneteenth, a commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War

• 12 Things You Might Not Know About Juneteenth

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• Juneteenth: Our Other Independence Day

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  Two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, American slavery came to an end and a celebration of freedom was born

• Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What is Juneteenth?

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  History of the holiday written by African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

• Watermelon & Red Birds

  a Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations

  Taylor, Nicole A.,

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• The Best Foods to Celebrate Juneteenth

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  July 4 isn't the only Independence Day worth celebrating in America! Check out traditional foods that appear as part of many Juneteenth celebrations.

• On Juneteenth

  Gordon-Reed, Annette,

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• Juneteenth

  a Novel

  Ellison, Ralph,

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• The Brightest Day

  a Juneteenth Historical Romance Anthology

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• Four Hundred Souls

  a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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• The African Americans

  Many Rivers to Cross

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• Jubilee

  Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking

  Tipton-Martin, Toni,

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• High on the Hog

  a Culinary Journey From Africa to America

  Harris, Jessica B.

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• Of Blood and Sweat

  Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth

  Ford, Clyde W.,

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• A Black Women's History of the United States

  Berry, Daina Ramey,

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• Slavery and the Making of America

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• Unsung

  Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition

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• Freedom National

  the Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

  Oakes, James

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