Juneteenth

On June 19, 1865, news of the emancipation proclamation reached Texas over two years after it was signed. June 19th is a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is also known as, “Emancipation Day” or “Freedom Day.” Juneteenth is an acknowledgment of the USA's participation in slavery and has served as a day to honor the enslaved African Americans.

In 2021, Juneteenth became a federal holiday, but for many years African Americans in Fort Worth, Texas and many other communities celebrated the holiday with parades, parties, and community-based activism rooted in the preservation of African American culture and history.

To learn more about Juneteenth and the life, history, and culture of African Americans, we encourage you to visit The National Museum of African American History and Culture's website. https://nmaahc.si.edu/juneteenth

Updated June 8, 2026
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The underground railroad :
Whitehead, Colson,
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of...
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration
Wilkerson, Isabel
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR * TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST...
James /
Everett, Percival L.
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view * In development as a feature film to be...
The message
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
CD
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell--and the ones we don't--shape our realities. "Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a...
Between the world and me [kit]
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Paper Book
In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh- it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country's foundational wealth, violently segregated to...
Four hundred souls :
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present--edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on...
On the other side of freedom :
Mckesson, DeRay,
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"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act at a time, powers his narratives and opens up a view on the costs...
This here is love /
Perry, Princess Joy L.,
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As the seventeenth century burns to a close in Tidewater, Virginia, America's character is wrought in the fires of wealth, race, and freedom. Young Bless, the only child left to her enslaved mother, stubbornly crafts the terms of her vital existence. She stands as the lone bulwark between...
The Black family who built America :
McKissack Daniel, Cheryl,
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A Scientific American Favorite Book of 2025 The riveting story of the McKissack family--the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today--in a moving celebration of...
Their accomplices wore robes :
Starkey, Brando Simeo,
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A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court-even more than the...
Marcados al nacer : la historia definitiva de las ideas racistas en Estados Unidos
Kendi, Ibram X.
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El libro que inspiró el documental de Netflix: Marcados al nacer. EL MEJOR LIBRO PARA ENTENDER CÓMO SE INSTITUCIONALIZA EL RACISMO. GANADOR DEL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD DE NO FICCIÓN EN 2016 Tras la elección de Barack Obama, muchos declararon el inicio...

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