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Hidden Black History : From Juneteenth to Redlining

by Green, Amanda Jackson

eBook - 2021

What are important moments in Black American history that have not been part of our shared education and national narrative? Discover the people and events you didn’t know, until now. What are important moments in Black American history that have not been part of our shared education and national narrative? Discover the people and events you didn’t know, until now. Show less

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Juneteenth

The Story Behind the Celebration

by Cotham, Edward T.

Book - 2021

Tells the complex story of Juneteenth and the facts and legends that lead to what promises to become a national holiday. Tells the complex story of Juneteenth and the facts and legends that lead to what promises to become a national holiday. Show less

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On Juneteenth

by Gordon-Reed, Annette

Book - 2021

Author and historian Annette Gordon-Reed ‘s Pulitzer prize winning research skills reveal the history of Juneteenth, which she deftly pairs with her perso...Show more Author and historian Annette Gordon-Reed ‘s Pulitzer prize winning research skills reveal the history of Juneteenth, which she deftly pairs with her personal reflections on the history and politics that shaped her own experiences as a Black woman in Texas. A unique and fascinating memoir. Show less

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Juneteenth

A Novel

by Ellison, Ralph

eBook - 2000

Shot on the Senate floor by a young black man, a dying racist senator summons an elderly black Baptist minister from Oklahoma to his side for a remarkable...Show more Shot on the Senate floor by a young black man, a dying racist senator summons an elderly black Baptist minister from Oklahoma to his side for a remarkable dialogue that reveals the deeply buried secrets of their shared past and the tragedy that reunites them. Show less

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Come Juneteenth

by Rinaldi, Ann

Book - 2007

For ages 12 and up, Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free. For ages 12 and up, Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free. Show less

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Closer to Freedom

Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

by Camp, Stephanie M. H.

Book - 2004

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of s...Show more Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie M.H. Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, she extends our recognition of slave resistance into new arenas and reveals an important and hidden culture of opposition. Show less

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Sweet Taste of Liberty

A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

by McDaniel, W. Caleb

Book - 2019

In Sweet Taste of Liberty, W. Caleb McDaniel focuses on the experience of a freed slave who was sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who th...Show more In Sweet Taste of Liberty, W. Caleb McDaniel focuses on the experience of a freed slave who was sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage. Henrietta Wood was born into slavery, but in 1848, she was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed. In 1855, however, a wealthy Kentucky businessman named Zebulon Ward, who colluded with Wood's employer, abducted Wood and sold her back into bondage. In the years that followed before and during the Civil War, she gave birth to a son and was forced to march to Texas. She obtained her freedom a second time after the war and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for $20,000 in damages--now known as reparations. Astonishingly, after ten years of litigation, Henrietta Wood won her case. In 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500 and the decision stuck on appeal. While nowhere close to the amount she had demanded, this may be the largest amount of money ever awarded by an American court in restitution for slavery. Wood went on to live until 1912 Show less

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Forever Free

The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

by Foner, Eric

Book - 2005

In Forever Free, Eric Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is based almost exclusively o...Show more In Forever Free, Eric Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is based almost exclusively on white sources and shaped by (often unconscious) racism. He presents the period as a time of determination, especially on the part of recently emancipated black Americans, to put into effect the principles of equal rights and citizenship for all. Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, he places a new emphasis on the centrality of the black experience to an understanding of the era. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in helping win the Civil War, and–even more actively–in shaping Reconstruction and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. Foner makes clear how, by war’s end, freed slaves in the South built on networks of church and family in order to exercise their right of suffrage as well as gain access to education, land, and employment. Show less

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Envisioning Emancipation

Black Americans and the End of Slavery

by Willis, Deborah

Book - 2013

By examining images of African American from the 1850s, when many were slaves, to the 1930s, Willis, a leading scholar of African American photography at ...Show more By examining images of African American from the 1850s, when many were slaves, to the 1930s, Willis, a leading scholar of African American photography at New York University, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, assistant history professor Krauthamer capture several generations of change. Show less

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Jubilee

Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking

by Tipton-Martin, Toni

Book - 2019

Throughout her career Tipton-Martin has shed new light on the history, breadth, and depth of African American cuisine, and introduced us to black cooks wh...Show more Throughout her career Tipton-Martin has shed new light on the history, breadth, and depth of African American cuisine, and introduced us to black cooks who established much of what is considered to be our national cuisine. Here she brings these masters into our kitchens. Through recipes and stories, we cook along with these pioneering figures, from enslaved chefs to middle- and upper-class writers and entrepreneurs. The recipes highlight techniques, ingredients, and dishes that show the roots of African American cooking-- deeply beautiful, culturally diverse, fit for celebration. Show less

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The Thin Light of Freedom

The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

by Ayers, Edward L.

Book - 2017

Drawn from personal correspondence of people located in the Great Valley Counties of Augusta, Virginia, and Franklin, Pennsylvania, a ground level perspective of how the war and emancipation affected those living there. Drawn from personal correspondence of people located in the Great Valley Counties of Augusta, Virginia, and Franklin, Pennsylvania, a ground level perspective of how the war and emancipation affected those living there. Show less

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Freedom National

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

by Oakes, James

Book - 2013

Traces the history of emancipation and its impact on the Civil War, discussing how Lincoln and the Republicans fought primarily for freeing slaves throughout the war, not just as a secondary objective in an effort to restore the country. Traces the history of emancipation and its impact on the Civil War, discussing how Lincoln and the Republicans fought primarily for freeing slaves throughout the war, not just as a secondary objective in an effort to restore the country. Show less

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Stamped From the Beginning

The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Kendi, Ibram X.

Book - 2016

A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson,...Show more A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists Show less

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Freedom Over Me

Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life

by Bryan, Ashley

Book - 2016

Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, Bryan contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, Bryan contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away Show less

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Hog & Hominy

Soul Food From Africa to America

by Opie, Frederick Douglass

Book - 2008

"Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies ...Show more "Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the concept of soul itself, revealing soul food to be an amalgamation of West and Central African social and cultural influences as well as the adaptations blacks made to the conditions of slavery and freedom in the Americas. Sampling from travel accounts, periodicals, government reports on food and diet, and interviews with more than thirty people born before 1945, Opie reconstructs an interrelated history of Moorish influence on the Iberian Peninsula, the African slave trade, slavery in the Americas, the emergence of Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. His grassroots approach reveals the global origins of soul food, the forces that shaped its development, and the distinctive cultural collaborations that occurred among Africans, Asians, Europeans, and Americans throughout history. Opie shows how food can be an indicator of social position, a site of community building and cultural identity, and a juncture at which different cultural traditions can develop and impact the collective health of a community." Show less

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Dark Sky Rising

Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow

by Gates, Henry Louis

Book - 2019

"This is a story about America and the shaping of its democratic values during the Reconstruction era, one of our country's most pivotal and misunder...Show more "This is a story about America and the shaping of its democratic values during the Reconstruction era, one of our country's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In this stirring account of the Civil War, emancipation, and the struggle for rights and reunion that followed, one of the premier US scholars delivers a book that is as illuminating as it is timely. Real-life accounts of heroism, grit, betrayal, and bravery drive this book's narrative, spanning America's history from 1861 to 1915 and drawing parallels with today. Topics include the destruction of slavery, the Reconstruction Amendments, and African American resilience in times of racial unrest. Notable figures cited throughout include Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Adams, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten, W.E.B. Du Bois, and more. Here, you will come face-to-face with America's challenge to create a society in which black and white citizens could, after a violent civil war, find a lasting peace without new lines of inequality and separation being drawn. The people and events of that noble experiment, and its violent overthrow and eventual undermining in the Jim Crow era, are central to this story. In introducing them to young readers, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., shares a history that remains vitally relevant to the challenges of our own time. Show less

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The Half Has Never Been Told

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Baptist, Edward E.

Book - 2014

Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. Show less

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Stony the Road

Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

by Gates, Henry Louis

Book - 2019

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, ...Show more A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked 'a new birth of freedom' in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the 'nadir' of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a "New Negro" to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age. Show less

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African-American Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations

The History, Customs, and Symbols Associated With Both Traditional and Contemporary Religious and Secular Events Observed by Americans of African Descent

by Gay, Kathlyn

Book - 2007

"Provides information about the history and celebration of more than 100 holidays, festivals, and other events observed by Americans of African desce...Show more "Provides information about the history and celebration of more than 100 holidays, festivals, and other events observed by Americans of African descent. Features include narrative overviews, chronology of historical events related to holidays and festivals, calendar and geographical listings of observances, bibliography, and contact information and web sites"--Provided by publisher. Show less

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CBLC Book Fest 2020: Blacks and the Vote - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6APznMYeyJI

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The Center for Black Literature & Culture at Indianapolis Central Library is proud to share a recording of our online Book Fest discussion: Blacks and the Vo... The Center for Black Literature & Culture at Indianapolis Central Library is proud to share a recording of our online Book Fest discussion: Blacks and the Vo... Show less

Juneteenth: Our Other Independence Day
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/juneteenth-our-other-independence-day-16340952/

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

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/501680/12-things-you-might-not-know-about-juneteenth

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https://www.juneteenthmusicfestival.com/

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The 2020 Juneteenth Music Festival on June 18th 2020 invites all to join, online, for a positive, educational and entertaining day celebrating African American history and the mission to make Juneteenth a national holiday. The 2020 Juneteenth Music Festival on June 18th 2020 invites all to join, online, for a positive, educational and entertaining day celebrating African American history and the mission to make Juneteenth a national holiday. Show less

Juneteenth Recipes curated by Nicole Taylor for the NY Times

https://cooking.nytimes.com/68861692-nyt-cooking/24232457-juneteenth-recipes-curated-by-nicole-taylor

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The author of “The Up South Cookbook” selects dishes for Juneteenth, June 19, a holiday that remembers the day when enslaved Africans in Texas learned that they were free, two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The author of “The Up South Cookbook” selects dishes for Juneteenth, June 19, a holiday that remembers the day when enslaved Africans in Texas learned that they were free, two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Show less