Learn more about Juneteenth
Juneteenth Resources
On this day in 1865, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with a force of almost 2000 soldiers and read the Emancipation Proclamation to enslaved African Americans at the end of the Civil War. Today, we commemorate that moment.
Below you will find resources for more information surrounding Juneteenth.
- National Museum of African American History & Culture Juneteenth Digital Toolkit
- Includes history and book lists for more on Juneteenth
- Pulitzer-prize winning historian, Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed, “Growing Up with Juneteenth”
- Zinn Education Project: “Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook”
- “Clint Smith on Juneteenth & Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America,” Democracy Now!
- “The Amendment: Is This the Juneteenth We Asked For with Jamelle Bouie,” The 19th
- “Juneteenth: Freedom is in the Claiming,” New York Times, Friday, June 19, 2020