June 15, 2022
To support teachers in commemorating Juneteenth, The New York Public Library has a new booklist, featuring both fiction and nonfiction titles, which provides context and background information on this holiday for students of all ages. The books on this list can help them recognize and acknowledge the horrors of slavery and the experiences of emancipation. Educators can pair these titles with current events articles, showcasing how people observe this holiday around the country, or they can highlight historical newspaper articles from the Library of Congress’s African American Historical Newspapers database.