All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
by Punk and Pedagogy
The morning everything changed.
you want your kid to know what Juneteenth actually is — not the holiday, the day
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On June 19, 1865, everything changed — and for one girl in Galveston, the change arrived like a sound she'd been waiting for all her life without knowing it. Angela Johnson tells the story of the first Juneteenth from a child's point of view, intimate and unhurried, grounded in the physical world of a single morning. E.B. Lewis's watercolors do the emotional work that words can't. This is the book for the question "why didn't anyone tell them sooner?" asked by a 5-year-old. Let them ask it.
