Research Guides: Katie Murrell Archived Library Displays: Juneteenth

Selection of Materials

Come Juneteenth by Ann Rinaldi

Call Number: PZ 7 .R459 Com 2007

Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.

All Different Now by Angela Johnson; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)

Call Number: PZ 7 .J629 All 2014

In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.

On Juneteenth

Call Number: E 185.93 .T4 G67 2021

A historical look at how Juneteenth came to be.

Celebrate Juneteenth with Poetry

Emancipation by Priscilla Jane Thompson Priscilla Jane Thompson was born in 1871 in Rossmoyne, Ohio. A poet and lecturer, she taught at Sunday school at Zion Baptist Church and self-published two books of poetry, Ethiope Lays (1900) and Gleanings of Quiet Hours (1907). Her work inspired the Harlem Renaissance. She died on May 4, 1942.
My People by Langston Hughes A poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright, Langston Hughes is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties and was important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance.
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864) by Aaron Coleman Aaron Coleman is the author of Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018), winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and St. Trigger (Button Poetry, 2016), winner of the Button Chapbook Prize. Coleman is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
We are Marching by Carrie Law Morgan Figgs Carrie Law Morgan Figgs was born in 1878. A teacher, community leader, playwright, and poet, Figgs was the author of Poetic Pearls (Edward Waters College Press, 1920) and Nuggets of Gold (Jaxon Printing Company, 1921), as well as several plays. She died in 1968.

Katie Murrell Archived Library Displays: Juneteenth

Selection of Materials

Come Juneteenth by Ann Rinaldi

All Different Now by Angela Johnson; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)

On Juneteenth

Celebrate Juneteenth with Poetry

Juneteenth Display

Juneteenth Board