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Film, Video The Juneteenth Book Festival Symposium on Black Literature & Literacy

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Title

  • The Juneteenth Book Festival Symposium on Black Literature & Literacy

Summary

  • A day-long symposium on Juneteenth, one of the oldest observances marking the end of the enslavement of African descendants in the United States. The holiday has been celebrated in Galveston, Texas, since June 19, 1865, when news of the Emancipation Proclamation first was announced in Texas. Today, Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom with an emphasis on education and literacy. The opened with a history of Juneteenth. Three panels followed on "The State of Black Literature," "The "Stakeholders of Black Literacy" and "Independent Artists: Our Journey as Storytellers of the African Diaspora."

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2015-06-19.

Headings

  • -  African, African American, African History, African American History, Juneteenth, American History, African Diaspora, African Literature, African American Literature, African Descendants
  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Literature

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Gabriel Benn, Beverly East, Hafiz F. Shabazz, Haile Gerima, Bomani Armah, Bahiyyah Muhammad, Rahman Branch, Hari Jones, Haki Madhubuti, E. Ethelbert Miller, Nikki Woods, Yanick Rice-Lam, Brenda Greene.
  • -  Recorded on 2015-06-19.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Visitors.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689833

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. The Juneteenth Book Festival Symposium on Black Literature & Literacy. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-19, 2015. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689833/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division, S. B. (2015) The Juneteenth Book Festival Symposium on Black Literature & Literacy. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-19. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689833/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. The Juneteenth Book Festival Symposium on Black Literature & Literacy. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-19, 2015. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689833/>.