JUNETEENTH READING LIST
Where to Title Author find it The Purpose of Power Alicia Garza 303.484
The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 304.8 W
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes you Blacker Damon Young 305.38896 Y
Hood Feminism: Notes from the women that a movement forgot Mikki Kendall 305.42097 K
A black women’s history of the United States Daina Ramey Berry 305.48869 B
Caste Isabel Wilkerson 305.5122 W
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 305.80097 C
How to be an Antiracist Ibram X Kendi 305.80097 K
Stamped from the beginning Ibram X Kendi 305.80097 K
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 305.89607 B
I’m Still Here: Black dignity in a world made for whiteness Austin Channing Brown 305.89607 B
African voices of the Atlantic slave trade Anne C. Bailey 306.362 B Remembering Slavery Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, 306.362 R and Seven F. Miller
The price for their pound of flesh: the value of the enslaved, from womb Daina Ramey Berry 306.36209 B to gave, in the building of a nation
Sweet Taste of Liberty W. Caleb McDaniel 306.36209 M
Breathe: a letter to my sons Imani Perry 306.85089 P
How we show up: reclaiming family, friendship, and community Mia Birdsong 307.0973 B
Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Bryan Stevenson 353.48092 S
A mighty long way: my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High Carlotta Walls LaNier 379.263 L School
On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed 394.263 G
A little devil in America Hanif Abdurraqib 791.08996 A Where to Title Author find it New daughters of Africa: an international anthology of writings by women Edited by Margaret Busby 808.899.28 N of African descent The source of self-regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations Toni Morrison 818.54 M
Four Hundred Souls Edited by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha 973.0496 G N. Blain Stony the road: Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 973.0496 G Crow Forever Free Eric Foner 973.0496 F
The Yellow House Sarah Broom 976.33506 B
I know why the caged bird sings Maya Angelou B Angelou
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight B Douglass
Barracoon: the story of the last “black cargo” Zora Neale Hurston B Lewis
More than enough: claiming space for who you are Elaine Welteroth B Welteroth
The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates Fic Coa
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Fic Ell
Juneteenth: a novel Ralph Ellison Fic Ell
Out of darkness, shining light: a novel Petina Gappah Fic Gap
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi Fic Gya
Such a fun age Kiley Reid Fic Rei
The Revisioners: a novel Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Fic Sex
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Fic Whi
American Spy: A Novel Lauren Wilkinson Fic Wil
Red at the Bone Jacqueline Woodson Fic Woo
Come Juneteenth Ann Rinaldi YA Fic Rin
Dear Martin Nic Stone YA Fic Sto