Juneteenth Jamboree by Carole Boston Weatherford

It can also be used as a companion text in social studies or history class when studying Abraham Lincoln. It can also serve as a text to help explain how long it took parts of the United States to conform to the abolishment of slavery. This book could also serve as a part of a multicultural lesson unit where students are learning of underknown events or little known events in ethnic history, or as a standalone story to introduce a diverse classroom to events that happen in different states around the country. It can be used to teach about African American history and celebrations that aren't very well known within it.

This book would be a great addition within a children's classroom. This story goes on to describe the celebrations that still go on to this day in parts of Texas every year when June comes around. This two plus years after Lincoln had abolished slavery. Juneteenth Jamboree celebrates the day that slaves in Texas were told that they were free. After about the middle of the book, Cassandra learns the real reason to celebrate. Her father tells her that it is a day of celebration and her aunt tells her that they were having company. Cassandra can not understand why this day, not a birthday that she knows of, is so special. This book is about a little girl named Cassandra. Carole Boston Weatherford does it again! She definitely has a way of portraying moments in history that intrigue the young and old alike.

Juneteenth Jamboree by Carole Boston Weatherford