Discover award winning and best selling Titles and Documentaries to embrace and memorialize the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is a moment in American history that highlights the tremdous challenges and achievements of Black individuals and serves as a reminder of the ongoing fight for equality and justice.
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By Annette Gordon-Reed (Author), New York Times * Times Critics Top Books of 2021, New York Times Best Seller
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. All too aware of the stories of cowboys, ranchers, and oilmen that have long dominated the lore of the Lone Star State, Gordon-Reed―herself a Texas native and the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas as early as the 1820s―forges a new and profoundly truthful narrative of her home state, with implications for us all.
