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What to read after On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed: 24 titles sharing themes of African American & Black, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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The House Servant’s Directory, Or, A Monitor for Private Families Comprising Hints on the Arrangement and Performance of Servantsʼ Work — Robert Roberts

The House Servant’s Directory, Or, A Monitor for Private Families Comprising Hints on the Arrangement and Performance of Servantsʼ Work

Themes: African American & Black

No Common Ground Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice — Karen L. Cox

No Common Ground Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

Themes: African American & Black

Driving the Green Book A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance — Alvin Hall

Driving the Green Book A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance

Themes: African American & Black

To Tell a Black Story of Miami — Tatiana D. McInnis

To Tell a Black Story of Miami

Tatiana D. McInnis

Themes: African American & Black

A Shot in the Moonlight How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South — Ben Montgomery

A Shot in the Moonlight How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South

Themes: African American & Black

Half American The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting WWII at Home and Abroad — Mattew F Delmont

Half American The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting WWII at Home and Abroad

Mattew F Delmont

Themes: African American & Black

Tales from the Haunted South Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era — Tiya Miles

Tales from the Haunted South Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era

Themes: African American & Black

We Carry Their Bones The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys — Erin H. Kimmerle

We Carry Their Bones The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

Erin H. Kimmerle

Themes: African American & Black

Look for Me in the Whirlwind From the Panther 21 to 21st-century Revolutions — Sekou Odinga

Look for Me in the Whirlwind From the Panther 21 to 21st-century Revolutions

Themes: African American & Black

Virginia Landmarks of Black History Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places — Calder Loth

Virginia Landmarks of Black History Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places

Themes: African American & Black

Eye of the Hurricane My Path from Darkness to Freedom — Rubin Hurricane Carter

Eye of the Hurricane My Path from Darkness to Freedom

Rubin Hurricane Carter

Themes: African American & Black

Southern Seed, Northern Soil African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900 — Stephen A. Vincent

Southern Seed, Northern Soil African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900

Stephen A. Vincent

Themes: African American & Black

A Most Tolerant Little Town The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation — Rachel Louise Martin

A Most Tolerant Little Town The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation

Rachel Louise Martin

Themes: African American & Black

Without Sanctuary Lynching Photography in America — James Allen

Without Sanctuary Lynching Photography in America

Themes: African American & Black

The Betrayal Of The Negro From Rutherford B. Hayes To Woodrow Wilson — Rayford W. Logan

The Betrayal Of The Negro From Rutherford B. Hayes To Woodrow Wilson

Rayford W. Logan

Themes: African American & Black

Double Victory How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II — Cheryl Mullenbach

Double Victory How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II

Cheryl Mullenbach

Themes: African American & Black

Afro-Atlantic Catholics America’s First Black Christians — Jeroen Dewulf

Afro-Atlantic Catholics America’s First Black Christians

Themes: African American & Black

Soledad Brother The Prison Letters of George Jackson — George Jackson

Soledad Brother The Prison Letters of George Jackson

Themes: African American & Black

Embattled Freedom Journeys Through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps — Amy Murrell Taylor

Embattled Freedom Journeys Through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps

Amy Murrell Taylor

Themes: African American & Black

The Age of Garvey How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics — Adam Ewing

The Age of Garvey How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

Themes: African American & Black

The John Carlos Story The Sports Moment that Changed the World — John Carlos

The John Carlos Story The Sports Moment that Changed the World

Themes: African American & Black

Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820. Sixth Edition, Volume II — Paul Heinegg

Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820. Sixth Edition, Volume II

Themes: African American & Black

My Larger Education Being Chapters From My Experience — Booker T. Washington

My Larger Education Being Chapters From My Experience

Booker T. Washington

Themes: African American & Black

Hanging Bridge Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century — Jason Morgan Ward

Hanging Bridge Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century

Jason Morgan Ward

Themes: African American & Black

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed. Connected by African American & Black. Authors featured include Robert Roberts, Karen L. Cox, Alvin Hall, Tatiana D. McInnis, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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