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Juneteenth Collection Highlight: Online resources

A special topic guide from River Campus Libraries with resources for learning more about Juneteenth.

Juneteenth (UR Office of Equity & Inclusion)
#BlackLivesMatter Booklist (River Campus Libraries)
African American Studies Research Guide (River Campus Libraries)
Diverse Voices: Research through an antiracist lens (River Campus Libraries)
Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories (Library of Congress)
Audio recordings of twenty-two former slaves in Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine states.
The Birth of Juneteenth; Voices of the Enslaved (Library of Congress blog)
Juneteenth (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture)
Celebrating Juneteenth: A Reading Of The Emancipation Proclamation (NPR)
Legislative history of Juneteenth (Library of Congress)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 (LOC)