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Partial list of sources potentially appropriate for
African American community assignment (to 1930's).

List updated Feb. 2006, Donna Marconnet
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277.4723 T239
Taylor, Clarence.
The Black churches of Brooklyn

301.42 G98
Gutman, Herbert George
The Black family in slavery and freedom, 1750-1925

301.451 D76
Drake, St. Clair
Black metropolis; a study of Negro life in a northern city(Chicago)

301.451 K192
Katzman, David
Before the ghetto; black Detroit in the nineteenth century

301.45196 SP74
Spear, Allan
Black Chicago; the making of a Negro ghetto, 1890-1920

305.8009747 F689
Foote, Thelma Wills
Black and White Manhattan

305.40975 F794
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth
Within the plantation household : Black and White women of the Old South

305.48896073 W767
Winegarten, Ruthe.
Black Texas women : 150 years of trial and triumph

305.563 G464
Gilbert, Charlene
Homecoming : the story of African-American farmers (freedmen southern states)

305.567 W225
Walsh, Lorena S.
From Calabar to Carter's Grove : the history of a Virginia slave community

305.896077866 C586
Clamorgan, Cyprian
The colored aristocracy of St. Louis

305.896 B82
Brandt, Nat
Harlem at war : the Black experience in WWII

305.896 G589
Godshalk, David Fort.
Veiled visions : the 1906 Atlanta race riot and the reshaping of American race relations

305.896 OS83
Osofsky, Gilbert, 1935-
Harlem, the making of a ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930

305.896073 M346
Marks, Carole.
Farewell--we're good and gone : the great Black migration.

305.896073075 G633
Gomez, Michael Angelo
Exchanging our country marks : the transformation of African identities in
the colonial and antebellum South.

306.09755 K96
Kulikoff, Allan
Tobacco and slaves: the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800

306.362 R385
edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller.
Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom

306.362092 W427
Weisenburger, Steven
Modern Medea: a family story of slavery and child-murder from the Old South (Cincinnati)

306.809755 ST847
Stevenson, Brenda E.
Life in black and white : family and community in the slave South

306.846 R846
Rothman, Joshua D.
Notorious in the neighborhood : sex and families across the color line in Virginia, 1787-1861

326 M12
McColley, Robert.
Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia

326.973 L78
Litwack, Leon F.
North of slavery; the Negro in the free States, 1790-1860.

326.975 W1
Wade, Richard C.
Slavery in the cities; the South, 1820-1860

326.9762 SY98
Sydnor, Charles S. (Charles Sackett), 1898-
Slavery in Mississippi

331.4089 H947
Hunter, Tera W.
To 'joy my freedom : Southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War.

331.63 T85
Trotter, Joe William
Black Milwaukee : the making of an industrial proletariat,1915-45

331.88122334 L651
Letwin, Daniel.
The challenge of interracial unionism : Alabama coal miners, 1878-1921

338.17361 F667
Follett, Richard J.,
The sugar masters : planters and slaves in Louisiana's cane world, 1820-1860

363.59 H669
Hirsch, Arnold R.
Making the second ghetto : race and housing in Chicago, 1940-1960

929.20973 M643
Miles, Tiya, 1970-
Ties that bind : the story of an Afro-Cherokee family in slavery and freedom (Georgia)

940.544973 D799
Dryden, Charles W.
A-train : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
(Tuskegee army air field, Alabama, 1939-1945)

972.0816 H815
Horne, Gerald
Black and Brown
(Texas, border region, and Mexico)

973 B47
Bennett, Lerone, 1928-
Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America,1619-1964

973 L54
Lemann, Nicholas.
The promised land : the great Black migration and how it changed America

973.0496073 B562
Bethel, Elizabeth Rauh.
The roots of African-American identity : memory and history in free antebellum communities

973.0496073 B627
edited by Anthony J. Cooper.
The Black experience, 1865-1978 : a documentary reader

973.0496073 C976
Curry, Leonard P.
The free Black in urban America, 1800-1850 : the shadow of the dream

973.0496073 F198
edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland
Families and freedom : a documentary history of African-American kinship in the Civil War era.

973.0496073 F853H
Henderson, Alexa Benson
Freedom's odyssey: African American history essays from Phylon

973.0496073 G659
Gatewood, Willard B.
Aristocrats of color : the Black elite, 1880-1920

973.0496073 M95
Mullin, Gerald W.
Flight and rebellion; slave resistance in eighteenth-centuryVirginia

973.0496073 SO724
Finkenbine, Roy E.
Sources of the African-American past : primary sources in American history

973.0496073 W94
Wright, Donald R.
African Americans in the colonial era : from African origins through the American Revolution

973.30922 K17
Kaplan, Sidney, 1913-
The Black presence in the era of the American Revolution,1770-1800.

973.7115 F869
Frazier,Harriet C.
Runaway and freed Missouri slaves and those who helped them, 1763-1865

973.315 F893
Frey, Sylvia R.
Water from the rock : Black resistance in a revolutionary age

974.7102 L598
Lepore, Jill
New York burning : liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan

973.711 L756
Link, William A.
Roots of secession : slavery and politics in antebellum Virginia

973.7115 G855
Griffler, Keith P.
Front line of freedom : African Americans and the forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley

973.7 M17N
McPherson, James M.
The Negro's Civil War : how American Blacks felt and acted during the war for the Union

973.71 SW97
Swint, Henry Lee
Dear ones at home; letters from contraband camps

973.7115 F869
Frazier, Harriet C.
Runaway and freed Missouri slaves and those who helped them, 1763-1865

973.7115 G855
Griffler, Keith P.
Front line of freedom : African Americans and the forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley

973.7115 SW979
Switala, William J.
Underground railroad in Pennsylvania

973.7415 H63
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
Army life in a black regiment

973.7415092 G65
Gooding, James Henry, 1837-1864.
On the altar of freedom : a black soldier's Civil War letters from the front

973.7415092 M127F
McCline, John, 1852-1948
Slavery in the Clover Bottoms : John McCline's narrative of his life during slavery and the Civil War
(Nashville region, Tennessee)

973.74755 J82
Jordan, Ervin L.
Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia

974 P624
Piersen, William Dillon
Black Yankees : the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England

974.7 H688
Hodges, Graham Russell
Root & branch : African Americans in New York and east Jersey, 1613-1863

974.7100496073 G79
Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn.
"Or does it explode?" : Black Harlem in the Great Depression

974.7100496073 M346
Marks, Carole.
The power of pride : stylemakers and rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance

974.7100496073 W588
White, Shane
Stories of freedom in Black New York

974.7104 SCH36
Schoener, Allon
Harlem on my mind : cultural capital of Black America,1900-1968 Ui.e. 1978u : Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition

974.786 G883
Grover, Kathryn
Make a way somehow : African-American life in a northern community, 1790-1965

974.8 N24
Nash, Gary B.
Forging freedom : the formation of Philadelphia's Black community, 1720-1840

974.811 D81
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
The Philadelphia Negro : a social study

974.811 W741
Willson, Joseph
The elite of our people : Joseph Willson's sketches of Black upper-class life in antebellum Philadelphia

975.00496073 W583
White, Deborah Gray
Ar'n't I a woman? female slaves in the plantation South

975.2600496 P558
Christopher Phillips
Freedom's port : the African American community of Baltimore, 1790-1860

975.4092 G242B
Garrison, Memphis Tennessee, 1890-1988
Memphis Tennessee Garrison : the remarkable story of a Black Appalachian woman
(McDowell County, West Virginia)

975.5 K41
Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.
Freedpeople in the tobacco South : Virginia, 1860-1900

975.041 AN569
Andrews, Sidney, 1837-1880
The South since the war : as shown by fourteen weeks of travel and observation in Georgia and the Carolinas

975.5 R1
Rachleff, Peter J.
Black labor in Richmond, 1865-1890

975.5 SO677
Sobel, Mechal.
The world they made together : Black and white values in eighteenth-century Virginia

975.502 M84
Morgan, Edmund Sears.
American slavery, American freedom : the ordeal of colonial Virginia

975.504 EN58
Engs, Robert Francis
Freedom's first generation : Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890

975.51 B832
Breen, T. H.
"Myne owne ground" : race and freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676

975.51800496 M849
Morgan, Philip D., 1949-
Slave counterpoint : Black culture in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

975.533 R981
Rutman, Darrett Bruce
A place in time : Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650-1750

975.5392 SU966
Daniel E. Sutherland.
Seasons of war : the ordeal of a Confederate community, 1861-1865 (Virginia)

975.5451 SI568
James Sidbury
Ploughshares into swords : race, rebellion, and identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810

975.5632 EL52
Ely, Melvin Patrick
Israel on the Appomattox : a southern experiment in Black freedom from 1790s through the Civil War

975.5852 D5
Charles B.Dew
Bond of iron : master and slave at Buffalo Forge

975.62041 EV92
Evans, William McKee
Ballots and fence rails : Reconstruction on the lower Cape Fear

975.7004 AT861
Underwood, James L.
At freedom's door : African American founding fathers and lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina

975.700496 L779
Daniel C. Littlefield.
Rice and slaves : ethnicity and the slave trade in colonial South Carolina

975.700496 T588
Brown, George
South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900

975.733 B562
Bethel, Elizabeth Rauh
Promiseland, a century of life in a Negro community (South Carolina)

975.784 V53
Vernon, Amelia Wallace
African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina

975.7915 B187
Ball, Edward
Slaves in the family

975.8 SM653
Smith, Julia Floyd
Slavery and rice culture in low country Georgia, 1750-1860

975.8041 M699
Mohr, Clarence L.
On the threshold of freedom : masters and slaves in Civil War Georgia

975.822500496 M399
Mason, Herman.
African-American life in DeKalb County, 1823-1970

975.900496 L255
Jane Landers
Black society in Spanish Florida

975.9004973 G964
Guinn, Jeff.
Our land before we die : the proud story of the Seminole Negro
(Florida and Texas)

975.9004973 M961
Mulroy, Kevin.
Freedom on the border : the Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas

975.977 D718
D'Orso, Michael.
Like judgment day : the ruin and redemption of a town called Rosewood

976.061 T92
Tunnell, Ted.
Crucible of reconstruction : war, radicalism, and race in Louisiana, 1862-1877

976.1063 F312
Feldman, Lynne B.
A sense of place : Birmingham's Black middle-class community, 1890-1930

976.2 F829
Frankel, Noralee
Freedom's women : Black women and families in Civil War era Mississippi

976.2 H889
Huffman, Alan
Mississippi in Africa

976.2 W893
Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth Woodruff
American Congo : the African American freedom struggle in the Delta

976.3 H737
Hollandsworth, James G.
An absolute massacre : the New Orleans race riot of July 30, 1866

976.3 J71
Johnson, Walter
Soul by soul : life inside the antebellum slave market

976.3004 C916
Kein, Sybil
Creole : the history and legacy of Louisiana's free people of color

976.335 IN47
Ingersoll, Thomas
Mammon and Manon in early New Orleans: the first slave society in the Deep South, 1718-1819

976.335 SCH296
Kelleher, Judith Schafer
Becoming free, remaining free : manumission and enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862

976.4232 AK315
Akers, Monte
Flames after midnight: murder, vengeance, and the desolation of a Texas community

976.6 G259
Gates, Eddie Faye.
They came searching : how Blacks sought the promised land in Tulsa

976.600496 W636
Wickett, Murray R., 1965-
Contested territory : whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1865-1907

976.686 B874
Brophy, Alfred L
Reconstructing the dreamland : the Tulsa riot of 1921 : race, reparations, and reconciliation

976.686052 H669
Hirsch, James S.
Riot and remembrance : the Tulsa race war and its legacy

976.686052 M182
Madigan, Tim
The burning : massacre, destruction, and the Tulsa race riot of 1921

976.72 C372H
Higgins, Billy D., 1938-
A stranger and a sojourner : Peter Caulder, free Black frontiersman in antebellum Arkansas

976.8 L911
Lovett, Bobby L.
The African-American history of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930 : elites and dilemmas

977.00496 T858
Trotter, Joe William
River Jordan : African American urban life in the Ohio Valley

977.02 B918
Buchanan, Thomas C.
Black life on the Mississippi : slaves, free blacks, and the western steamboat world

977.132 P561
Phillips, Kimberley L.
Alabama North: African-American migrants, community, and working-class activism in Cleveland, 1915-45

977.3 G878
Grossman, James R.
Land of hope : Chicago, Black southerners, and the Great Migration

977.300496 R323 v.1
Reed, Christopher Robert
Black Chicago's First Century

977.31100496 T967
Tuttle, William Jr.
Race riot : Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919

977.5 C78
Cooper, Zachary
Black settlers in rural Wisconsin

977.800496 K92
Greene, Lorenzo J.; Kremer, Gary R.; Holland, Antonio F.
Missouri's Black heritage

978 K19
Katz, William Loren
The Black West.

978.00496 R252
Ravage, John W.
Black pioneers : images of the Black experience on the North American frontier.

978.00496073 D961
Durham, Philip.
The Negro cowboys

978.00496073 T245
Taylor, Quintard.
In search of the racial frontier : African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990

979.4600496 L554
Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen
Abiding courage : African American migrant women and the East Bay community

979.49400496 F581
Flamming, Douglas.
Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America

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