6:00 - 7:00
United States
Focused on books that discuss research into African American family history and that illuminate the journey towards the discovery of our ancestors.
The group will meet on Zoom on alternating months.
This month's book:
On Juneteenth, by Annette Gordon-Reed
The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us.