![]() ![]() Professor Gordon-Reed has won 16 book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2008 for " The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. To help us better understand the history of this holiday and the journey of African Americans in the state of Texas, we welcome to the program historian, author and native Texan Annette Gordon-Reed, the Carl M. ![]() Activist Opal Lee, known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth, played an instrumental role in the holiday’s journey to law, spending decades advocating for the date to be recognized nationally. Granger.Īnd, Juneteenth National Independence Day is now a federal holiday, signed into law yesterday by President Biden. History, Gordon-Reed writes in the opening chapter, is, to say the least, complicated, but in this short book, which is as much memoir as it is historical. Entitled " Absolute Equality," the mural marks the spot where General Order No. On this year's Juneteenth, a new 5,000-square-foot mural will be dedicated in Galveston. ![]() Courtesy of Harvard University Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Harvard professor and author of “On Juneteenth” ![]()
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