By Elliott Smith. A resource from Read Woke™ Books, explores Juneteenth’s little-told history, from the first Jubilee to the making of a national holiday. Read Woke™ Books seeks to amplify the voices of people of the global majority (people who are of African, Arab, Asian, and Latin American descent and identify as not white) to provide information about groups that have been disenfranchised, sharing perspectives of people who have been underrepresented or oppressed, challenging social norms and disrupting the status quo and encouraging readers to take action in their community. Read more.