OBD Juneteenth - Youth | Oak Lawn Public Library

1) The Juneteenth story: celebrating the end of slavery in the United States

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Agostini, Alliah L

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"With colorful illustrations and a timeline, this introductory history of Juneteenth for kids details the evolution of the holiday commemorating the date the enslaved people of Texas first learned of their freedom. On June 19, 1865--more than two years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation--the enslaved people of Texas first learned of their freedom. That day became a day of remembrance and celebration that changed and grew from year...

2) The book itch: freedom, truth, and Harlem's greatest bookstore

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Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.

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Dear Martin volume 1

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Book, Audiobook CD, Braille, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Pre-loaded Audio

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"Justyce McAllister is top of his class at Braselton Prep, captain of the debate team, and set for an Ivy League school next year- but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. He's eventually released without charges (or an apology), but the incident rattles him. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood, he can't seem to escape the scorn of his former peers or the attitude of his new classmates. The only exception: Sarah...

4) Stamped: racism, antiracism, and you

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Thorndike large print young adult

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Book, Audiobook CD, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Pre-loaded Audio

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"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap. "A history of racist and antiracist...

5) Hidden Black history: from Juneteenth to redlining

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Green, Amanda Jackson

Series

Fight for Black Rights

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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"From Juneteenth to the Tulsa Race Massacre, many important moments in Black American history have not been taught in schools or covered in the media. Discover these events and how they are remembered in the Black community today"--

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Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux

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On my own holidays

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! June 19th, 1865, began as another hot day in Texas. Enslaved African Americans worked in fields, in barns, and in the homes of the white people who owned them. Then a message arrived. Freedom! Slavery had ended! The Civil War had actually ended in April. It took two months for word to reach Texas. Still the joy of that amazing day has...

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Dolbear, Emily J

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Black American journey

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"Learn the basics about Juneteenth, also called Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, and how the holiday celebrates the emancipation of slaves in the United States"--

8) Freedom in Congo Square

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Weatherford, Carole Boston

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"As slaves relentlessly toiled in an unjust system in 19th century Louisiana, they all counted down the days until Sunday, when at least for half a day they were briefly able to congregate in Congo Square in New Orleans. Here they were free to set up an open market, sing, dance, and play music. They were free to forget their cares, their struggles, and their oppression. This story chronicles slaves' duties each day, from chopping logs on Mondays to...

9) Obviously: stories from my timeline

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"Comedian and activist Akilah Hughes shares everything about her journey from a childhood in the south to the big screen while dispensing invaluable big-sister-style advice to a generation of future YouTubers"--

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Smith, Sherri L

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During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

11) Akata witch

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Okorafor, Nnedi

Series

Akata series volume 1

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Book, Audiobook CD, Audiobook MP3-CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.

12) American ace

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Nelson, Marilyn

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Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.

13) The taking of Jake Livingston

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"When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game"--

14) Sugar Town queens

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"A biracial girl living in post-apartheid South Africa is determined to unveil the mystery of her white mother's hidden past"--Provided by publisher.

15) I hadn't meant to tell you this

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Woodson, Jacqueline

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Laurel-leaf books

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Twelve-year-old Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.

16) All the days past, all the days to come

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Taylor, Mildred D

Series

Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9

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Book, Audiobook CD

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"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...

17) Maya and the robot

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A forgotten homemade robot comes to life just when aspiring fifth-grade scientist Maya needs a friend - and a science fair project.

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Okorafor, Nnedi

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Book, eAudiobook, Pre-loaded Audio

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In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old Mnamdi is determined to avenge his police chief father, who was murdered while triyng to rid the town of criminals, but Nnamdi feels powerless until he receives a magical object which gives him superpowers.

19) My life as an ice cream sandwich

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Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

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Thorndike Press large print middle reader

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, Pre-loaded Audio

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"In the summer of 1984, 12-year-old Ebony-Grace Norfleet makes the trip from Huntsville, Alabama, to Harlem, where she'll spend a few weeks with her father while her mother deals with some trouble that's arisen for Ebony-Grace's beloved grandfather, Jeremiah. Jeremiah Norfleet is a bit of a celebrity in Huntsville, where he was one of the first black engineers to integrate NASA two decades earlier. And ever since his granddaughter came to live with...

20) Jazmin's notebook

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Jazmin, an Afro-American teenager who lives with her older sister in a small Harlem apartment in the 1960s, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a record of the events in her sometimes difficult life.