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Library Closed Monday, April 1, 2024 for Cesar Chavez Day

03/29/2024
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Cesar Chavez

The Cal Maritime Library will be closed Monday, April 1, 2024, in celebration of the life and work of Cesar Chavez. We will be open as usual Sunday, March 31. Learn more at the Cesar Chavez Foundation!

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The Cal Maritime Library's summer hours for 2024 start Monday, May 6 and last through August 20. Regular semester hours begin August 21 with the start of Fall semester 2024. Please see below, and visit our Hours page for the full details!

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Books new to the Library in 2023-24
02/08/2024
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The Cal Maritime Library is continually adding new materials t the collection. Take a look at our online collection of books added so far this year - you can sort by date, title, author or relevance, and search within the collection. Also check out our main Collections page to see what else is available through your library.

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Juneteenth 2023
06/16/2023
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June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, slaves in confederate states finally received word that they were free.

Freedom is a thread, and a fight, woven through this nation's history and current political climate. Continue to take action to celebrate and ensure true freedom for all through awareness of racial disparities, mobilization, and bold actions necessary to further the fight for social justice and equal opportunity. (Sianna Brito.) To learn more, visit the NAACP's Juneteenth page or NPR's article on How to celebrate Juneteenth in the age of commercialization. 

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Join the 33rd Annual Vallejo Juneteenth Festival & Parade on Saturday, June 17, 9 am to 5 pm!

Learn about Juneteenth activities and resources at the Solano County Library!

Reading List

Check out this reading list from the National Museum of African American History & Culture or stop by the Cal Maritime Library for the following books.

Juneteenth: Fact Sheet by U.S. Congressional Documents

Call Number: E-resource 
Publication Date: 2018-2023
This government document provides an overview of of the history and legislation around this day.

Cover ArtJuneteenth (Revised) by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: PS3555.L625 J86 2021
Publication Date: 2021
Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth is brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise. Ellison tells a powerful, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century.
Cover ArtJuneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration by Edward T. Cotham; Edward T. Cotham
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2021
Juneteenth is as a national day celebrating the end of slavery. Where did this celebration come from? What is the origin story? What are the facts, and legends, around this important day in the nation's history? Learn all of this and more.
 
 
Cover ArtEnvisioning Emancipation by Deborah Willis; Barbara Krauthamer
Call Number: E185.2 .W68 2013
ISBN: 9781439909850
Publication Date: 2012
The authors vividly display the seismic impact of emancipation on African Americans born before and after the Proclamation, providing a perspective on freedom and slavery and a way to understand the photos as documents of engagement, action, struggle, and aspiration.
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Call Number: E185.93.T4 G67 2021
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Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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