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On Juneteenth / Annette Gordon-Reed.

Gordon-Reed, Annette, (author.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781631498831
  • ISBN: 1631498835
  • Physical Description: 148 pages : map ; 20 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-148).
Formatted Contents Note:
"This, then, is Texas" -- A Texas town -- Origin stories : Africans in Texas -- People of the past and the present -- Remember the Alamo -- On Juneteenth.

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Subject:
Juneteenth.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Texas.
African Americans > Texas > Galveston > History.
African Americans > Anniversaries, etc.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
Galveston (Tex.)

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