Juneteenth

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wilkerson examines the migration of nearly 6 million African Americans from the South for the North and the West between World War I and the 1970s through the stories of three individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who left rural Mississippi for Chicago in the 1930s; George Swanson Starling, who set out for Harlem in the 1940s; and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, who became a Los Angeles physician after leaving Louisiana in the 1950s.

Photographic historian Deborah Willis and historian of slavery Barbara Krauthamer worked on this book that has over 140 photographs from the antebellum days of the 1850s through the New Deal era of the 1930s. Among the photographs, some never before published, are Juneteenth celebrations and slave reunions.