LibGuides: Highlighting Diverse Collections Archive: Juneteenth

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Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph by Ruthe Winegarten
ISBN: 9780292786653
Publication Date: 2010
The first comprehensive history of Black Texas women, Winegarten's narrative sparkles with the life stories of individual women and their contributions to the work force, education, religion, the club movement, community building, politics, civil rights, and culture.
Our Stories by edited by George Keaton Jr. and Judith Garrett Segura
Call Number: F394.D219 N457 2022
ISBN: 9781574418828
Publication Date: 2022
Detailed descriptions of more than thirty early Dallas communities formed by free African Americans, along with the histories of fifty-seven early Black families, and brief biographies of many of the early leaders of these Black communities
In Search of the Blues by Bill Minutaglio
Call Number: E 185.93 T4 M56 2010
ISBN: 0292792891
Publication Date: 2010
Minutaglio's stories offer an understanding of the sweeping evolution of music, race, and justice in Texas, as he wades into the musical undercurrent that touches on African Americans' joys, longings, and frustrations, and the passing of generations.
Da Mayor of Fifth Ward by Robert "Bob" E. Lee
Call Number: E185.93.T4 L44 2021
ISBN: 9781648430046
Publication Date: 2021
A collection of fourteen stories by Bob Lee--freelance writer, community organizer, social worker, social justice warrior, child of Houston's Fifth Ward and its advocate, former Chicago Black Panther--presents his youthful recollections and tales of his East Texas relatives.
Penny Candy by Jonathan Norton
Call Number: PS3614.O78265 P46 2021
ISBN: 9781646051052
Publication Date: 2021
In this strikingly inventive autobiographical work of drama, Norton delves into the story of American systemic racism, illustrating life for one Dallas household and their candy shop during the drug epidemic of the late 1980s.
Lost Restaurants of Galveston's African American Community by Galveston Historical Foundation, with Greg Samford, Tommie Boudreau, Alice Gatson and Ella Lewis.
Call Number: TX 909.2.T42 G35 2021
ISBN: 1467141771
Publication Date: 2021
The Galveston Historical Foundation's African American Heritage Committee has gathered together the stories and recipes that preserve this culinary history of some of Galveston's earliest residents for the enjoyment and enrichment of generations, and kitchens, to come.

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