Freely Available Web Resources
Resources about Juneteenth
- The Birth of Juneteenth: Voices of the EnslavedBy Neely Tucker, Part of the Library of Congress Blog.
- Executive Order from the Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the Governor: Establishment of Juneteenth as a State HolidayExecutive order sixty-six (2020).
- The Historical Legacy of JuneteenthBlog post by the The National Museum of African American History and Culture.
- Juneteenth: Fact SheetBy the Congressional Research Service. Updated July 14, 2020.
- Juneteenth Jamboree [video]Juneteenth Jamboree is a local public television program presented by Austin PBS. 26m 42s. CC.
Resources for Research on Emancipation in America
- Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: A Selection of Primary Sources (ProQuest)This open-access website from ProQuest provides a selection of primary source documents useful for a wide range of students, teachers, and independent scholars. It contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom:
1. Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)
2. The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)
3. Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932)
4. The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)
5. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975)
6. The Contemporary Era (1976-2000) - BlackPast According to the site, "it is a 'crowd sourced' online encyclopedia on African American history and the history of people of African ancestry outside the United States. Its success is built on a network of more than 700 volunteer contributors from six continents. All BlackPast.org articles are vetted for historical accuracy and copy-edited before they appear. BlackPast.org reserves the right to refuse any submitted entry that does not meet its standards for accuracy and objectivity." BlackPast was founded by University of Washington Professor Quintard Taylor and his graduate assitant, George Tamblyn.