Juneteenth Jamboree
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford Category: Family, Race Learning Objectives: Power, Freedom, Excellence, Innovation, Community Abstract: With text and illustrations as warm as a summer day, author Carole Boston Weatherford and artist Yvonne Buchanan bring the African American emancipation celebration of Juneteenth to life for children. Readers of all ages will delight in this declaration of freedom and homecoming. Buy Now
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Cassandra and her family have moved to her parents’ hometown in Texas, but it doesn’t feel like home to Cassandra until she experiences Juneteenth, a Texas tradition celebrating the end of slavery.