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This guide covers the various resources available regarding the Juneteenth yearly celebration.
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12 Years a Slave
by
McQueen, Steve, film director
Call Number: DRAMA DVD 791.4372 Twe
Publication Date: 2014
This is the life of Solomon Northup, a free black man in 1840s who was kidnapped into slavery.
Before she was Harriet
by
Cline-Ransome, Lesa
Call Number: Y DVD 326.8092 Bef
ISBN: 9781520099088
Publication Date: 2018
This video honors a woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life.
Black in Latin America
by
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Call Number: DVD 980.0049 Bla
ISBN: 9781608834464
Publication Date: 2011
Henry Louis Gates Jr. travels to Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico and Peru to discover the African influence on Latin America.
Glory
by
Fields, Freddie
Call Number: BLU 791.4372 Glo
ISBN: 1424827620
Publication Date: 2009
All-black members of the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, headed by Col. Robert Gould Shaw during the Civil War.
Harriet
by
Lemmons, Kasi, film director
Call Number: DRAMA DVD 791.4372 Har
Publication Date: 2020
Movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes.
Rough crossings
by
Schama, Simon
Call Number: DVD 326.0973 Rou
ISBN: 1419864955
Publication Date: 2008
The struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American Revolution.
Underground Railroad
by
Michaels, Susan producer
Call Number: NONFIC DVD 973.7 Und
ISBN: 0767050789
Publication Date: 2002
Traces the journey to freedom taken by countless slaves, showing how they were guided, protected and pursued along the way.
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