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🙌🏿Juneteenth: 6 Children’s Books

The books listed tell how on June 19, 1865, enslaved Blacks in Galveston, Texas heard Union General Gordon Granger recite General Order, No. 3, which partially read “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” That was the beginning of Juneteenth celebrations in Galveston, Texas and the celebrations have since spread all across the world.

📖Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth

Alice Faye Duncan

Keturah A. Bobo

Thomas Nelson

January 18, 2022

📖Juneteenth: A Children's Story

Opal Lee

Peter Viska

Unity Unlimited Inc.

📖Juneteenth for Mazie

Floyd Cooper

Capstone Young Readers 

📖All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

Angela Johnson

E.B. Lewis

Simon & Schuster BYR 

📖Juneteenth Jamboree

Carole Boston Weatherford

Yvonne Buchanan

Lee & Low Books 

📖Juneteenth (On My Own Holidays)

Drew Nelson

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Mark Schroder

First Avenue Editions

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Let me direct this to all the so-called American Patriots one simple thing: Juneteenth is STILL not a fake holiday. Nor is it not a fake occasion. Folks, we have celebrated the 160th Anniversary of the Announcement of Juneteenth Day. Or Emancipation Day. Or as many call it: The Real Independence Day. How real? More on the way. The process goes back to Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation…