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Resources for Juneteenth

Learn more about Juneteenth, the day that the US Army freed enslaved people in Texas, ending slavery in the Confederate States.

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2022 marks the 157th anniversary of Juneteenth, the day that the US Army freed enslaved people in Texas, ending slavery in the Confederate States.

The declaration was made on June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, six months before the ratification of the 13th Amendment, and a century before the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964. Juneteenth would mark the end of a sustained and horrific period of almost 250 years during which millions of people were enslaved in our country.

Resources for Juneteenth

Observing Juneteenth in Vermont

Films and TV

  • 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
  • American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
  • Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
  • Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
  • Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
  • Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
  • Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
  • I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
  • Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
  • King In The Wilderness  — HBO
  • See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
  • Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
  • The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
  • When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
  • Detroit — Hulu
  • LA 92 — Netflix 
  • Paris is Burning — Netflix


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