| African American History Resources
@ Pequot Library
Arranged by category (alphabetically), from most recently published to earliest published.
Biography arranged by subject’s last name.
History (see also Social History) [arranged from most recent to earliest]:
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. Dyson, Michael, 2006. 976.335 DYSON
Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Washington, Harriet A., 2006. 174.28 WASHINGTON
Forever Free: the Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Foner, Eric, 2005. 973.8 FONER
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: the End of Slavery in America. Guelzo, Allen C., 2004.
973.714 GUELZO
Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class. Tye, Larry, 2004. 331.88 TYE
An Imperfect God: George Washington, his Slaves, and the Creation of America. Wiencek, Henry, 2003. 973.41 WIENCEK
Jefferson’s Pillow: the Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. Wilkins, Roger W.,
2001. 973.09 WILKINS
Life is So Good. Dawson, George, 2000. 976.4 DAWSON
The Ballad of Little River: a Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural South. Hemphill, Paul, 2000. 976.1 HEMPHILL
Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America. 1999.
973.0496073 CHILDREN
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: an African-American’s Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past. Cottman, Michael H., 1999. 975.941 COTTMAN
Hidden in Plain View: the Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. Tobin, Jacqueline, 1999. 973.7 TOBIN
Slaves in the Family. Ball, Edward, 1998. 975.7915 BALL
A History of Black America. Lindsey, Howard O., 1994. Q 973.04 LINDSEY
African Americans: Voices of Triumph. Leadership. 1994.OV 973 TIME
Longtime Coming: an Insider’s Story of the Birmingham Church Bombing that Rocked the World. Cobbs, Elizabeth H. and Petric J. Smith, 1994. 976.1063 SMITH
On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying, and Signifying—the Underground Tradition of African-American Humor that Transformed American Culture from Slavery to Richard Pryor. Watkins, Mel, 1994. 792.23 WATKINS
African Americans: Voices of Triumph. Perseverance. 1993.OV 973 TIME
Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of African American Migrations. 1993.973 UP
The Promised Land: the Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. Lemann, Nicholas, 1991. 973 LEMANN
Bloody Dawn: the Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North. Slaughter, Thomas F., 1991. 974.815 SLAUGHTER
Slavery and Freedom: a Interpretation of the Old South. Oakes, James, 1990. 975 OAKES
The Port Chicago Mutiny. Allen, Robert L., 1989. 940.91 ALL
Racial Matters: the FBI’s Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972. O’Reilly, Kenneth, 1989.
973.049 O’REIL
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. Foner, Eric, 1988. 973.8 FON
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1988. 325 FOX
Black Indians: a Hidden Heritage. Katz, William Loren, 1986. 970.2 KATZ
Black Masters: a Free Family of Color in the Old South. Johnson, Michael P., 1984. 975.7 JO
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980. Murray, Charles A., 1984. 973.9 MU
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Jacobs, Harriet Ann, 1983. 326 BRENT
The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island an the African Slave Trade 1700-1807. Coughty, Jay, 1981. 974.5 CO
I Hear Them Calling My Name: a Journey Through the New South. Fuller, Chet, 1981. 975 FULLER
The Pursuit of a Dream. Herman, Janet Sharp, 1981. 976.2 HE
The History of Black Americans. Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1976. 323 FONER
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. Gutman, Herbert George, 1976.
301.42 GUTMAN
The Loyal Blacks. Wilson, Ellen Gibson, 1976. 966.4 WILSON
The Gift of Black Folk. DuBois, W.E.B., 1975. 973.004 DU BOIS
Exploring Black America: a History and Guide. Thum, Marcelle, 1975. 917.3 THUM
The Philadelphia Negro. DuBois, W.E.B., 1973. 917.48 DU BOIS
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stone Rebellion.
Wood, Peter H., 1974. 975.5 WO
Voices in the Whirlwind, and Other Essays. Mphahlele, Ezekiel, 1972. 968 MPHAHLELE
Sketches of Negro Life and History in South Carolina. Gordon, Asa H., 1971. 975.7 GO
Picking Up the Gun: a Report on the Black Panthers. Anthony, Earl, 1970. 326 ANTHONY
The Black Panthers Speak. Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1970. 301.46 FONER
The Emancipation Proclamation. Miers, Earl Schenck, 1969. 326.6 MIERS
Black Manhattan. Johnson, James Weldon, 1968 [1930]. 325.2 JOHNSON
In Their Own Words: a History of the American Negro, 1865-1916. Meltzer, Milton, 1967.
326 MELTZER
Harlem: the Making of a Ghetto; Negro New York, 1890-1930. Osofsky, Gilbert, 1966. 974.7 OSO
After Slavery: the Negro in South Carolina during Reconstruction. Williamson, Joel, 1965. 973.8 WI
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