What is Transatlantic Reconnection?

An interactive learning platform connecting continental African students with the history, culture, and diaspora narratives of the African American experience.

Historical Event

First Annual Juneteenth Celebration At Ashton Villa

Civil Rights Movement Freedom and Resistance Slavery,Freedom and Resistance

Related People

Al Edwards

1937–2020

Related Heritage Sites

Ashton Villa (Juneteenth Monument)

Galveston, TX

Related Lessons

The Portuguese Colonial War: Three Fronts, One Assassination, and a Revolution in Lisbon That Ended It All

Unit 6

A Cold Welcome: Discrimination and the 1958 Notting Hill Riots

Unit 10

Soca: A Sound Deliberately Built to Unite a Divided Island

Unit 11

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