It also can be used to encourage others to be stronger allies through an empathetic lens. This booklist was primarily curated in hopes to encourage the Black youth to strive for that same freedom. Not only free from anti-Black racism, but also free to be individuals who can explore what it means to be themselves outside the caricatured monolithic scope society tries to impose on their Black bodies. They dreamed of the freedom to be unabashedly authentic in the face of all forms of oppression. Like the formerly enslaved Africans, the Black protagonists, characters, and historical figures of this booklist dared to imagine freedom against all opposing factors in their narratives. In celebration of Juneteenth, this booklist was curated in that same spirit. Free to love, free to create, free to enjoy everything life has to offer. They longed for the day they would be free to be whatever they desired. Many carved out their own paths for freedom well before a document legally legitimized their personhood. Black Americans have always used their imagination to envision what the days would look like when they were free.
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