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277.33 F848 1974
Frazier, Edward Franklin, 1894-1962.
The Negro church in America.
301.451 N87
Northup, Solomon, B. 1808.
Twelve years a slave. / Edited by Sue Eakin & Joseph Logsdon
(reprint of 1853 ed.)
301.451 ST88 1970
Storing, Herbert J., 1928-
What country have I? Political writings by Black Americans. / Herbert
J. Storing, editor.
301.451 T53 1965
Three Negro classics: Up from slavery. The souls of black folk. / The autobiography
of an ex-colored man. With an introd. by John HopeFranklin.
301.45196 D8 1984
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
Dusk of dawn; an essay toward an autobiography of a race concept.
301.50924 X99
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.
The autobiography of Malcolm X / With the assistance of AlexHaley.
Introd. by M. S. Handler. Epilogue by Alex Haley.
305.567092 T874G 1991
Gilbert, Olive.
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a bondswoman of olden time : with a history of
her labors and correspondence drawn from her "Book of Life" /
with an introduction by Jeffrey C. Stewart.
305.800976147 D275 1997
Burns, Stewart.
Daybreak of freedom : the Montgomery bus boycott.
323.092 W685 1994
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-
Standing fast : the autobiography of Roy Wilkins / by Roy Wilkins
with Tom Mathews ; introduction by Julian Bond.
323.1 M689 1997
Modern Black nationalism : from Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan
/ edited by William L. Van Deburg.
323.1 V88 1990
Voices of freedom : an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s
through the 1980s / compiled by Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer with
Sarah Flynn.
323.1196073 C187 1997
Campbell, Clarice T.
Civil rights chronicle : letters from the South / by Clarice T. Campbell
; foreword by John Dittmer.
323.1196073 P186 2001
Newman, Richard
Pamphlets of protest : an anthology of early African-American protest literature,
1790-1860
323 G76 and 323.4 G76
Grant, Joanne
Black protest; history, documents, and analyses, 1619 to the present.
325 AP65
Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-
A documentary history of the Negro people in the United States. /
Pref. by W. E. B. Du Bois.
331.6396073 H195 1996
Halpern, Rick.
Meatpackers : an oral history of Black packinghouse workers and their struggle
for racial and economic equality.
331.6396073 H772
Honey, Michael K.
Black workers remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom
struggle.
340.92 F831 1997
Franklin, Buck Colbert, 1879-1960.
My life and an era : the autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin /
edited by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin.
770.92 P25 1990
Parks, Gordon, 1912-
Voices in the mirror : an autobiography / Gordon Parks.
920.0092 B368 1991
Bearing witness : selections from African-American autobiography in the twentieth
century / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
920.0092 F834 1996
Franklin, V. P. (Vincent P.), 1947-
Living our stories, telling our truths : autobiography and the making of the
African-American intellectual tradition.
940.5403 B624 1999
Bitter fruit : African American women in World War II / edited with
an introduction by Maureen Honey.
940.5403 IN62 1975
The Invisible soldier : the experience of the Black soldier, World War II
/ compiled and edited by Mary Penick Motley ; with a foreword by Howard
Donovan Queen.
973.04956073 T85 1994
The trouble they seen : story of Reconstruction in the words of African Americans
/ edited by Dorothy Sterling.
973.0496073 AU939 2000
Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told
by those who lived it / [edited by] Herb Boyd.
973.0496073 B627 1995
The Black experience, 1865-1978 : a documentary reader / edited by
Anthony J. Cooper.
973.0496073 C614M 1996
Classical Black nationalism : from the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey
/ edited by Wilson Jeremiah Moses.
973.0496073 F198 1997
Families and freedom : a documentary history of African-American kinship in
the Civil War era / edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland.
973.0496073 F85 1992
Free at last : a documentary history of slavery, freedom, and the Civil War
/ [edited by] Ira Berlin ... [et al.].
973.0496073 L722 1998
Lift every voice : African American oratory, 1787-1900 / edited by
Philip S. Foner and Robert J. Branham.
973.0496073 SO724 1997
Finkenbine, Roy E.
Sources of the African-American past : primary sources in American history
/ Roy E. Finkenbine.
973.04960730092 SC285
Scarborough, W. S. (William Sanders), 1852-1926.
The autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough : an American journey from slavery to scholarship / edited and with an introduction by Michele Valerie Ronnick ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
973.09174 F53 1976
Fishel, Leslie H.
The Black American : a documentary history / Leslie H.Fishel, Jr.,
Benjamin Quarles.
973.7114 W82 1993
Witness for freedom : African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation
/ C. Peter Ripley, editor ; co-editors, Roy E.Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree,
Donald Yacovone.
973.7115 P241 1996
Parker, John P., 1827-1900.
His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor
on the underground railroad / edited by Stuart Seely Sprague.
973.7415 G698
Diary of a contraband : the Civil War passage of a Black sailor /
[edited by] Gould, William Benjamin, 1837-1923.
973.7415092 M127F
McCline, John
Slavery in the Clover Bottoms: John McCline's narrative of his life during slavery
and the Civil War / ed. By Jan Furman.
973.7415092 T246
A Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volonteers [sic] / Susie King Taylor ; edited by Patricia W. Romero
974.700496 P942 1994
"Pretends to be free" : runaway slave advertisements from colonial
and revolutionary New York and New Jersey / edited by Graham Russell
Hodges and Alan Edward Brown.
974.7100496073 M346 1999
Marks, Carole.
The power of pride : stylemakers and rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance
/ Carole Marks & Diana Edkins.
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
975.906092 R497 1989
Rice, Sarah, 1909-
He included me : the autobiography of Sarah Rice / transcribed and
edited by Louise Westling.
976.0496 F853
Jackson, Esther Cooper
Freedomways reader: prophets in their own country.
977.311 AU88 1969
The autobiographies of the Haymarket martyrs / edited and with an
introd. by Philip S. Foner.
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