Juneteenth Resource List

Join The Town of Pelham Public Library as we honor Juneteenth on June 19.

Discover the books below exploring African American history including Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the day the Emancipation Proclamation reached enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865.

Adults

• African Americans: Voices of Triumph.  Creative Fire (Q 700.8 A)
• Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community it Created by Nick Tabor (305.89 T)
• Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment edited by Richard Carlin (Q 792.09747 A)
• Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Q 704.039 L)
• Black Women Writers at Work edited by Claudia Tate (809.8 B)
• Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie by Donald L. Maggin (B GILLESPIE)
• Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin D. Hall (917.304 H)
• Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner (973.71 F)
• Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen by Jon Gray (641.5 G)
• Glory: Magical Visions fo Black Beauty by Kahran Bethencourt (779.208 B)
• Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America by David C. Driskell (Q 704.03 H)
• Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly (510.92 S)
• The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman (808 G)
• Jazz by Leonard Herman (Q 781.65 L)
• King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King by Daniel De Visé (B KING)
• Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America by Allen C. Guelzo (973.7 G)
• Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism by Thomas Brothers (B ARMSTRONG)
• My America: Recipes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi (641.59 O)
• On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed (394.263 G)
• Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season by Jonathan Eig (B ROBINSON)
• A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou (B ANGELOU)
• Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time by Adrian Miller (641.59 M)
• Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D. G. Kelley (B MONK)
• Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations by Nicole Taylor (641.568 T)
• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves: An Anthology by Glory Edim (810.989 W)

Children

• The ABC’s of Black History by Rio Cortez (J 973 C)
• Amanda Gorman: Inspiring Hope with Poetry by Artika R. Tyner (J BIO GOR)
• Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbalia (J MBA)
• Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy (JP JOY)
• Brave, Black, First: 50+ African American Women who Changed the World by Cheryl Willis Hudson (J 920.72 H)
• Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States by Pat McKissack (J 973.7)
• Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford (Q JP WEA)
• Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry (JP CHE)
• A History of Me by Adrea Theodore (JP THE)
• Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom by Sharon Dennis Wyeth (JE 394.263 W)
• Little Black Girl: Oh, the Things That You Can Do! by Kirby Howell-Baptiste (JP HOW)
• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison (J 920.72 H)
• Magic Like That by Samara Cole Doyon (JP DOY)
• Opal Lee and What it Means to be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth by Alice Faye Duncan (J BIO LEE)
• The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita L. Hubbard (J BIO WAL)
• Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change by Michelle Cook (J 920 C)
• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander (J 811.6 A)
• What is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel (J 973 J)

Teens

• Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe (YA PHI)
• Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century by Linda Tarrant-Reid (YA 973.04 T)
• Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden (YA 973.7 B)
• Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill (YA 810.9 H)
• Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly (YA 510.92 S)
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (YA DEO)
• This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron (YA BAY)
• Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington by Jacqueline Houtman (YA B RUS)
• Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee (YA LEE)
• You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (YA JOH)