Juneteenth Reading List (34 books)

Juneteenth is a day of celebration—a commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans in the United States. Oxford University Press recognizes the importance of learning about the past for a better future. We are highlighting a range of books showcasing the lived realities of African-Americans leading to June 19, 1865, and stories of people and events that continue the fight for liberation in present day America. This Juneteenth, we invite you to learn from the past, celebrate the present, and help shape the future.

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1	Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama by Saladin Ambar 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle by Myisha Cherry 4.10 avg rating — 147 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights by Thomas C. Holt 3.81 avg rating — 75 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans by Jonathan Scott Holloway 4.34 avg rating — 50 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North by Zoë Burkholder (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kate Clifford Larson (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 286 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert by John W.I. Lee 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	My Black Stars by Lilian Thuram 4.06 avg rating — 143 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart 4.04 avg rating — 315 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg 4.23 avg rating — 414 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail by Michael L. Walker 4.47 avg rating — 70 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron 3.89 avg rating — 179 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter by Charlton D. McIlwain 3.94 avg rating — 127 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America by Richard Lischer 4.13 avg rating — 89 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement by Ruth Feldstein 3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 794 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family by Laura Arnold Leibman (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 111 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military by Thomas A Guglielmo (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism by Allissa V Richardson (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon by Nyasha Junior (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk by Jamil W. Drake 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Racism: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Rattansi 3.68 avg rating — 459 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 87 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction by Heather Andrea Williams 4.10 avg rating — 183 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction by Richard S. Newman 3.76 avg rating — 90 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass 4.38 avg rating — 12,273 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs 4.17 avg rating — 57,940 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington 4.11 avg rating — 36,032 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 3.92 avg rating — 242,249 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault 4.29 avg rating — 534 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Laura F. Edwards 3.49 avg rating — 97 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	From Slavery to Civil Rights: On the Streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present by Hilary McLaughlin-Stonham (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall 4.03 avg rating — 98 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars