{"id":1468,"date":"2024-06-17T15:34:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/dei\/?page_id=1468"},"modified":"2025-06-18T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:14:29","slug":"suggestions-on-how-to-celebrate-juneteenth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/suggestions-on-how-to-celebrate-juneteenth\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggestions on How to Celebrate Juneteenth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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  1. Celebrating Juneteenth<\/a> from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture<\/li>
  2. The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth<\/a> from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n
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    \r\n\t\t\tThe Historical Legacy of Juneteenth<\/a> Juneteenth is an often overlooked event in our nation\u2019s history. On June 19, 1865, Union troops freed enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay and across Texas some two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. nmaahc.si.edu\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/article>\n\n\n
    1. On Juneteenth<\/a> by Annette Gordon-Reed<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n
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      \r\n\t\t\tOn Juneteenth<\/a> NEW YORK TIMES \u2022 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2021 New York Times \u2022 Times Critics Top Books of 2021 New York Times Bestseller Best Books of the Year \u2022 Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Independent, Los Angeles Public Library, Washington Independent Review of Books, Spy, Audile, Biblioracle, AbeBooks The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth\u2019s integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning historian and Texas native. \u00a0 Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed\u2019s On Juneteenth provides a historian\u2019s view of the country\u2019s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. All too aware of the stories of cowboys, ranchers, and oilmen that have long dominated the lore of the Lone Star State, Gordon-Reed\u2014 www.google.com<\/a>\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/article>\n\n\n
      1. PBS Kids for Parents suggests 14 Books for Celebrating Juneteenth<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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        1. PBS presents Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n
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          \r\n\t\t\tJuneteenth: Faith & Freedom:Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom<\/a> A black man is troubled by the legacy of American slavery and the misuse of Christianity to justify it. He travels throughout Texas and discovers how the Juneteenth holiday reveals a resilient hope that empowered the formerly enslaved and their descendants to fight for freedom in an often unjust society. www.pbs.org<\/a>\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/article>\n\n
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          Learn more about how Juneteenth provides an opportunity to learn about Black history <\/a>in the WSU Insider article <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Read: Celebrating Juneteenth from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41263,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_category":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1468\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_category?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/cahnrsforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}