Before that, I had done a review of five books about Texas for the New York Review of Books. The Harvard history professor has a new book out, “On Juneteenth.” See More CollapseĪ: I did an essay for the New Yorker last year about Juneteenth, talking about how we celebrated it when I was a kid and about the day itself. Listen: Lisa Gray interviews the best-selling, Pulitzer- and National-Book-award-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed, who grew up in Conroe. In mid-’60s, as a first grader, Gordon-Reed became the first African American student to enter Conroe’s white school system. “On Juneteenth” mixes a recounting of the role that slavery plays in Texas history with Gordon-Reed’s own remembrances - of her East Texas family and of growing up in Conroe, a town that had a particularly bad reputation for its treatment of Blacks.
This year she’s released a far more personal book. In 2008, Gordon-Reed won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.” Harvard history professor Annette Gordon-Reed is best known for her groundbreaking research on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman with whom Jefferson fathered children. Jason Fochtman, Staff photographer / Houston Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of3Īnnette Gordon-Reed was the first African American child to desegregate her school in Conroe, much like Ruby Bridges in New Orleans, as depicted in Norman Rockwell’s 1964 painting, “The Problem We All Live With.” Museum of Fine Arts Houston Show More Show Less
Annette Gorden-Reed Courtesy Annette Gorden-Reed, Harvard Staff Photographer / Harvard University Show More Show Less 2 of3Īnnette Gordon-Reed, the first Black student to attend a formerly all-white school in Conroe, grew up to win a 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History - and is now part of the city’s “Legends” mural wall.
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