Annette Gordon-Reed Explores Long Road to Juneteenth in New Memoir
Mina Kim talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed about her new memoir "On Juneteenth."
May 14, 202136m 42s
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Show Notes
On June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and two months after the Confederacy surrendered, enslaved Americans in Texas were notified of the end of slavery. "On Juneteenth," the new memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, explores the history of that event, its legacy and its influence on her own life.
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