Skip to Main Content

Katie Murrell Archived Library Displays: Juneteenth

Some previous displays at the Katie Murrell Library

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 Book Cover

On Juneteenth

Call Number:  E 185.93 .T4 G67 2021

A historical look at how Juneteenth came to be.

Celebrate Juneteenth with Poetry

Juneteenth Display

Juneteenth Display 2021 the first year that it is declared a Federal holiday!

Juneteenth Board

Freedom Day bulletin board display
Description of people on display
Juneteenth Display