Davis, Nathaniel,
comp. & editor. Afro-American Reference: An Annotated Bibliography
of Selected Resources. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Ref. E185.D37 1985
Diversity
Series: Celebrating Black History. A Bibliography of Selected
Materials from the Western Libraries Children's Collection.
http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/subjguides/ed/edtopics/win02black.htm
Glover, Denise Marie. Voices
of the Spirit: Sources for Interpreting the African American Experience.
Chicago: American Library Association, 1995.
Ref. E185.G56 1995
Annotates and discusses
classic and contemporary resources in African American history from 1883
to the present. Types of resources listed include reference books, biographies,
genealogies, historiographies, historical surveys, documentary histories,
and chronologies.
Gubert, Betty Kaplan. Early
Black Bibliographies, 1863-1918. New York: Garland Pub.,
1982.
Ref. E 185.E17 1982
Junne, George H. Blacks
in the American West and Beyond - - America, Canada, and Mexico:
A Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 2000.
Ref. E185.925.J86
2000
The
Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers.
Robert A. Hill, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983-1990.
E185.97.G3
M36 1983 7 vols.
Nordquist,
Joan. African Americans: Social and Economic Conditions: A Bibliography.
Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1992.
Ref.
E185.86 N67 1992
Peavy,
Charles D. Afro-American Literature and Culture Since World War
II: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Co.,
1979.
Ref.
PS153.N5 P39
Strickland,
Arvarh E. and Robert E. Weems, Jr., eds. The African American
Experience: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Ref.
E184.65.A37 2001
Biographical
Resources
Afro-American History Series.
Wilmington, Del., Scholarly Resources, [1972] Reprint of the 1799-1867
ed.
E185.W48 10 vols.
Contents --1. Black
thought in early America, 2. Slave narratives, 3. The black intellectual,
4. Pioneer drama and poetry, 5. Convention pamphlets, 6. Black voices,
7. Slave narratives, 8. Slave narratives, 9-10. Miscellaneous
writings.
Autobiography Of A People:
Three Centuries of African American History Told By Those Who Lived It.
Herb Boyd, compiler. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
E185.A97 2000
Contemporary Black Biography.
Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992- .
Ref. E185.96.C66
31 vols.
Gates, Henry Louis. The
African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country.
New York: Free Press, 2000.
Ref. E185.96.G38 2000
Hawkins, Walter Lee. African
American Biographies: Profiles of 558 Current Men and Women.
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1992.
Ref. E185.96.H38 1992
Hine, Darlene Clark, ed.
Black Women in America N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2005
Ref. E185.86.B542 2005 3 vols.
Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. Black
Women in American History, From Colonial Times Through the Nineteenth Century.
Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1990.
E185.86.B543 1990
vols. 1-4
-- -- . Black
Women in American History. The Twentieth Century.
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1990.
E185.86 .B543 1990 vols.
5-8
Leeman, Richard W. African-American
Orators: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1996.
Ref. E185.96 A447 1996
Lengthy articles also
provide lists of research collections and anthologies of collected speeches,
and include a selected bibliography as well as a chronology of major speeches.
Ragsdale, Bruce A., and Joel Treese.
Black
Americans in Congress, 1870-1989. (Office of the Historian,
U.S. House of Representatives), Washington D.C. : U.S. GPO, 1990.
Ref. E185.96.R25 1990
Salem, Dorothy C. ed. African
American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland,
1993.
Ref. E185.96 A45 1993
Provides analytical
summaries of each subject, includes a bibliography and suggested readings
for each entry.
Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. Notable
Black American Women. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992-1996.
Ref. E185.96 N68 1992 2
vols.
-- -- . Notable
Black American Men. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.
Ref. E185.86 .N68
1998
Stuhr-Rommereim, Rebecca. Autobiographies
By Americans of Color 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography. Troy, New
York: Whitston, 1997.
CT220.S78 1997
Washington,
Booker T. The Booker T. Washington Papers. Louis R.
Harlan, ed. Urbana, University of Illinois Press 1972 -1989.
E185.97
.W274 14 vols.
Who's Who Among African
Americans. New York: Gale Research, 1996- .
REF. E185.96.W52 1998-99
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Chronologies
For an overview
& historical perspective of American political, social, and cultural
events, try:
American Decades.
Richard Layman, ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994- .
Ref. E169.12.A419
1994
Each volume includes essays
defining events of the decade, in both the domestic and international arenas;
and discusses cultural and technological trends that affect people's everyday
lives. Includes a chronology of events.
American Eras.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1997- .
Ref. E169.1.A471979 1997
Volumes are divided into chapters-
- world events ( a chronology), arts, business and economy, communications,
education, government and politics, law and justice, lifestyle, social
trends and fashion, religion, science and medicine, and sports and recreation.
The volume that covers the period 1850-77 adds a chapter on the Civil War.
Sidebars, found throughout the text, are sometimes taken from primary-source
material. Each separate topic includes citations to two or three books
used as sources. At the end of each volume is a larger bibliography arranged
by general topics.
Carney Smith, Jessie, and Casper
L. Jordan, Robert L. Johns, eds. Black Firsts: 2,000 Years of
Extraordinary Achievement. Detroit: Visible Ink, 1994.
Ref. E185.B574 1994
Hornsby, Alton. Chronology
of African-American History: Significant Events and People
From 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991.
Ref. E185.H64 1991
Jenkins, Everett. Pan-African
Chronology: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in
Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, 1400-1865. Jefferson,
N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1996.
Ref. E185.18.J46 1996
Kullen, Allan S. The
Peopling of America: A Timeline of Events That Helped Shape Our Nation:
A Historical Perspective. Beltsville, MD: Americans All, 1994.
Ref. E184.A1 K85 1994
Stepto, Gabriel. The African
American Years. New York: Scribner, 2003.
Ref. E185.S797 2003
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Dictionaries
& Encyclopedias
Afro-American
Encyclopaedia; Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing
Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities,
Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations...
James T. Haley. University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill, "Documenting
the American South", Electronic Edition. Full-text.
Altman, Susan, eds. et al.
Encyclopedia
of African American Heritage. Boulder, Colorado: NetLibrary,
1999.
Internet
- ebook via Netlibrary (connect
via our Library Catalog)
Appiah, Anthony Kwame, and
Henry Louis Gates Jr., eds. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the
African and African American Experience. New York: Basic
Civitas Books, 1999.
Ref. DT14.A37435 1999
Herbst, Philip. The
Color of Words: An Encyclopedaedic Dictionary of Ethnic Bias in the
United States. Yarmouth, M.E.: Intercultural Press, 1997.
Ref. E184.A1 H466 1997
Hine, Darlene Clark, Elsie
Barkley Brown, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, eds. Black Women in America:
An Historical Encyclopedia. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1993.
Ref. E185.86.B542 1993
2 vols.
Includes a chronology,
extensive biographical information, as well as broad coverage of subjects.
Horne, Gerald, and Mary Young,
eds. W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn:
Greenwood Press, 2001.
Ref. E185.97 D73 W164 2001
Murphy, Larry G., J. Gordon
Melton, and Gary L. Ward, eds. Encyclopedia of African American
Religions. New York : Garland Pub., 1993.
Ref. BR563.N4 E53 1993
Organizing Black America:
An Encyclopedia of African American Associations . Nina
Mjagkij, ed. New York : Garland Pub., 2001.
Ref. E185.5 .O74 2001
Ploski, Harry A. and James
Williams, eds. Reference Library of Black America. Farmington Hills,
MI : Gale Group, Inc.; [U.S.?] : Distributed by African American Publications,
Proteus Enterprises, 2000.
Ref. E185.R44 2000
Roller, David C., Robert W.
Twyman, ... eds. et al. The Encyclopedia of Southern History.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Ref. F207.7.E52
Salzman, Jack, David Lionel
Smith, Cornel West, eds. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture
and History. New York: Macmillan Library Reference; London: Simon
& Schuster and Prentice Hall Int., 1996.
Ref. E185.E54 1996
Schultz, Jeffrey D., ed. Encyclopedia
of Minorities in American Politics. Phoenix: Oryx Press,
2000.
Ref. E184.A1 E574 2000
Walker, Juliet E.K., ed. Encyclopedia
of African American Business History. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1999.
Ref. HD2344.5.U6.E53 1999
Provides information
on African American business experiences from 1600's to the 1990's.
Includes a chronology, biographies, and discussion of specialized topics
of black business history.
Williams, Michael W., ed. The
African American Encyclopedia. 6 vols. New York: Marshall
Cavendish Corp., 1993.
Ref. E185.A253 1993
-- -- The African
American Encyclopedia. Supplement. New York: Marshall Cavendish
Corp., 1997.
Ref. E185.A253 1993
Supplement. (vols. 7 & 8)
Atlases
Earle, Jonathan. The
Routledge Atlas of African American History. New York:
Routledge, 2000.
Ref. E 185.E125 2000
"Charts the history
of blacks in the U.S. from slavery to the present, using a combination
of maps, charts and brief essays. "
Bibliographies
and Research Guides
A Guide to Research on
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle.
Compiled by the staff of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project. Stanford,
Calif.: Stanford University Libraries, 1989.
Ref. E185.61.G853 1989
Levy, Peter B., ed. The
Civil Rights Movement. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998.
E185.61.L519 1998
Includes an overview
of the Civil Rights Movement, its origins, women and the movement,
biographies of key personalities, and identifies selected primary documents
of the movement.
-- -- , ed. Documentary
History of The Civil Rights Movement. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1992.
E185.61.D64 1992
Murray, Paul T. The
Civil Rights Movement: References and Resources. New York: Maxwell
Macmillan International, 1993.
Ref. E185.6.M95 1993
Contents include a
review of the literature, general works, key works by state, sources about
civil rights organizations, biographical sources on participants, sources
outlining the federal government's role, phases of the movement, etc.
Biographical
Resources
Crawford, Vicki L., Jacqueline
Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods, eds. Women in the Civil Rights
Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965. Brooklyn,
N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1990.
E185.86.B543 1990 v.16
D'Emilio, John. The Civil
Rights Struggle: Leaders In Profile. New York: Facts on
File, 1979.
Ref. E185.96.D38
Horne, Gerald, and Mary Young.
W.E.B.
du Bois: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
2001.
Ref. E185.97.D73
W164 2001
King, Martin Luther, Jr. The
Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited by Clayborne
Carson. New York: Intellectual Properties Management in association
with Warner Books, 1998.
E185.97.K5 A52 1998
Chronologies
American Decades.
Richard Layman, ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994- .
Ref. E169.12.A419
1994
Free
At Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the
Struggle. Montgomery, AL: Civil Rights Education Project,
Southern Poverty Law Center, 1989.
E185.61
.F837x 1989
Dictionaries
& Encyclopedias
Bradley, David, and Shelley
Fisher Fishkin, eds. The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America.
Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe Reference, 1998.
Ref. E185.61.E544 1998
3 vols.
Grossman, Mark. The
ABC-CLIO Companion to the Civil Rights Movement. Santa Barbara,
Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1993.
Ref. E185.61.G895 1993
Lowery, Charles D., and John
F. Marszalek, eds. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil
Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-first Century. Westport, Conn:
Greenwood Press, 2003. 2 vols.
Ref. E185.61.E54 2003
Martin, Waldo E. and Patricia
Sullivan, eds. Civil Rights in the United States. New
York: MacMillan Reference, 2000.
Ref. E184.A1 C47 2000
Histories
Bardolph, Richard. The
Civil Rights Record: Black Americans and the Law, 1849-1970.
New York: Crowell, 1970.
KF4757.B3
Brown v. Board of Education:
A Brief History With Documents. Boston: Bedford: St. Martin's,
1998.
KF228.B76 B76 1998
Haines, Herbert H. Black
Radicals and the Civil Rights Mainstream, 1954-1970. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1988.
E185.615.H25 1988
Howard,
John R. The Shifting Wind: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights
and Civil Rights Cases From Reconstruction to Brown. Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1999.
Internet
- Available via Netlibrary (access via "Search Databases" - Browse Indexes &
Databases)
Hutchinson, Earl Ofari.
Blacks
and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990. East Lansing:
Michigan State UP, 1995.
HX86.O35 1995
Jenkins, Robert L. and Tryman, Mfanya Donald, eds. The
Malcolm X Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. 2002.
Ref. BP223.Z8 L573.2002
Levy, Peter B. The
Civil Rights Movement. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998.
E185.61.L519 1998
Includes
an overview of the Civil Rights Movement, its origins, women and the movement,
biographies of key personalities, and identifies selected primary documents
of the movement.
Securing the Enactment of
Civil Rights Legislation, 1946-1960. New York: Garland Pub.,
1991.
KF4757.S43 1991
Securing the Enactment of
Civil Rights Legislation, Civil Rights Act of 1964. New York:
Garland Pub., 1991.
KF4757.S43 1991
Securing the Enactment of
Civil Rights Legislation, 1965-1968. New York: Garland
Pub., 1991.
KF4757.S43 1991b
Shull, Steven A. American
Civil Rights Policy From Truman to Clinton: The Role of Presidential Leadership.
Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
E185.615.S497 1999
Sitkoff, Harvard, ed. The
Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992. New York: Hill
and Wang, 1993.
E185.615 S572 1993
Stern, Mark. Calculating
Visions: Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights. New Brunswick,
N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1992.
E84 .S75 1992
United States. Dept. of Justice.
Justice
Department Briefs in Crucial Civil Rights Cases, 1948-1968. New
York: Garland Pub., 1991.
KF4755.J87 1991.
Weisbrot, Robert. Freedom
Bound: A History of America's Civil Rights Movement. New
York: W.W. Norton, 1990.
E185.61.W394 1990
Whalen, Charles W.
The Longest Debate: A Legislative History of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Cabin John, Md. ; Washington, D.C. : Seven Locks Press, 1985.
KF4756.A315 A168 1985
Primary
Sources
Search the Library Catalog
for additional works - - using an author search,such as X,
Malcolm; or King,Martin Luther Jr.
American Decades Primary Sources.
Cynthia Rose, ed. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
Ref. E169.1 .A471977 2004
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Thurgood Marshall Law Library
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/edocs/usccr/html%20files/usccrhp.asp
African American Perspective:
Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection 1818-1907. Rare
Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
"Presents a panoramic
and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost
one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth
centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900.
Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington,
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel
Love."
The African-American Experience
in Ohio 1850 - 1920. Ohio Historical Society.
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/index.stm
"This digital collection
illuminates specific moments in the history of Ohio's African-Americans
and provides an overview of their experiences during the time period 1850
to 1920 in the words of the people that lived them." Includes manuscripts,
pamphlets, letters, diaries, and information about the Black newspaper
press in Ohio, as well as selected full-text newspaper articles.
Civil Rights
Documentation Project
"An interactive, Web-based presentation with links to digitized historical materials
and other Internet-based resources about civil rights legislation created by museums, historical
societies, and government agencies."Civil Rights in Mississippi
Digital Archive. Prepared and maintained by the Special Collections
Digital Lab, a division of USM Libraries at the University of Southern
Mississippi.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/about.htm
"The
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive project provides Internet-accessible,
fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library
and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi. "
Speeches
Rhetoric of Struggle:
Public Address by African-American Women. Robbie jean Walker,
ed. New York: Garland, 1992.
PS663.N4 R47 1992
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. New York:
Bantam Books, 1990.
E185.61 .H224 1990
King, Martin Luther, Jr. A
Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clayborne Carson and Kris Shephard, eds. New York: Intellectual Properties
Management, Inc. in association with Warner Books, 2001.
E185.97.K5 A5 2001
Videos
The Civil Rights Movement.
Produced by the Educational Film Center for NYT Educational Media; executive
producer, Melanie Rosen. New York: New York Times Co., 1995.
MediaDesk - Kit
E185.61.C594 1995
Contains 4 videocassettes,
educator's guides, 4 posters, and article sheets. Contents includes
"live footage from newsreels and reprints of articles from the New York
times. Module 1. Black American views on racial discrimination, 1895-1915
-- module 2. The Women's Suffrage Movement and the nineteenth amendment,
1919-1920 -- module 3. The Little Rock school war : the Supreme Court's
response to a constitutional crisis, 1957-1959 -- Module 4. The protests
in Birmingham and the March on Washington, 1963. "
Dateline Freedom: Civil Rights
and the Press. WETA; producer, Sue Ducat; executive producer,
Ricki Green. Washington, D.C. : Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications
Association ; Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, 1988.
Wilson 2W - Video PN4888.C54 D36 1988
Eyes on the Prize: America's
Civil Rights Years. WGBH Boston; produced by Blochside Inc. and
Corporation for Public Broadcasting; [created and developed by] Henry Hampton.
Washington, DC: PBS Video [distributor], 1986.
Wilson 2W Video
E185.61.E95 1986
Eyes on the Prize II: America
at the Racial Crossroads, 1965-1985. Boston, MA: Blackside, Inc.; Alexandria,
VA: PBS Video
Wilson 2W Video
E185.61.E952 1990
The Road to Brown: The Untold
Story of "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow". University of Virginia. San
Francisco, Calif.: California Newsreel [distributor], 1990.
Wilson 2W Video
KF373.H644 R63 1990
A
Time for Justice: America's Civil Rights Movement. Charles Guggenheim.
Montgomery, Ala.: Teaching Tolerance, 1992.
Wilson
4E - Curriculum CURRIC S E TEAC 1992 Video
"Depicts
the battle for civil rights, recalling the crisis in Montgomery, Little
Rock, Birmingham, and Selma and reveals the heroism of the individuals
involved."
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Bibliographies
& Research Guides
African
American Art: A Bibliography of Resources at WWU
http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/subjguides/art/ethnic.htm#afr
Bearden,
Romare. A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
Oversize
N6538.N5 B38 1993
Davis,
Lenwood G. and Janet Sims. Black Artists in the United States:
An Annotated Bibliography of Books, Articles, and Dissertations on Black
Artists, 1779-1979. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood press, 1980.
N6538.N5
D33
Holmes,
Oakley N. The Complete Annotated Resource Guide to Black American
Art: Books, Doctoral Dissertations, Exhibition Catalogs, Periodicals,
Films,Slides, Large Prints, Speakers, Filmstrips, Video Tapes, Black Museums,
Art Galleries, and Much More. Spring Valley, N.Y.: Black Artists
in America, 1978.
N6538.N5
H6
Igoe,
Lynn. 250 Years of Afro-American Art: An Annotated Bibliography.
New York: Bowker, 1981.
Ref.
N6538.N5 I38
Moore,
Sylvia, and Leslie King-Hammond, eds. Gumbo Ya Ya: An Anthology
of Contemporary African-American Women Artists. New York:
Midmarch Arts Press, 1995.
Ref.
N6538.N5 G85 1995
Biographies
Hedgepeth,
Chester. Twentieth Century African American Writers and Artists.
Chicago: Amaerican Library Association, 1991.
NX512.3.A35
H43 1991
Otfinoski, Steven. African
Americans in the Visual Arts. New York: Facts on File, 2003.
Reference N6538.N5 086 2003
Indexes
Art Index online 1984- , in print, (1929-1994)
located in Periodicals Wilson 1E N1.A59.
Arts
& Humanities Citation Index - online Database
Bibliography of the History of Art - online Database
St. Louis
Public Library. An Index to Black American Artists.
St. Louise, 1972.
N6538.N5
S24 1972
Thomison,
Dennis. The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions.
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1991.
Ref.
N6538.N5 T46 1991
Videos
Emma
Amos: Action Lines. Chappaqua, N.Y.: L&S Video,
Inc. 1996
Wilson 2W Video
N6537.A469 E44 1996
Horace
Pippin: There Will Be Peace. Chappaqua, N.Y.: L&S
Video, Inc. 1997.
Wilson 2W Video
ND237.P65 H6 1997
To
locate articles discussing specific authors or works, literary criticism,
reviews, or discussion of themes, etc., use the MLA Bibliography
database. For book reviews and additional information,
also try
Arts
& Humanities Citation Index, Humanities Abstracts, ProQuest,
Reader's
Guide, the Alternative Press Index, or Ethnic NewsWatch.
Access from " Search Databases" - -
Browse
Indexes and Databases Alphabetically.
Bibliographies
& Research Guides
Afro-American Poetry and
Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale
Research Co., 1979.
Ref. PS153.N5 A35
Barksdale, Richard K. (Richard
Kenneth). Black Writers of America; A Comprehensive Anthology.
New York: Macmillan, 1972.
PS508.N3 B35
Deodene, Frank, and William
P. French. Black American Fiction Since 1952; A Preliminary Checklist.
Chatham, N.J.: Chatham Bookseller, 1970.
Ref. PS153.N5 D4
Gubert, Betty Kaplan, compiler.
Early
Black Bibliographies, 1863-1918. New York: Garland Pub., 1982.
Ref. E185.E17 1982
Jordan, Casper LeRoy. A
Bibliographical Guide to African-American Women Writers. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993.
Ref. PS153.N5 J67 1993
Margolies, Edward, and David
Bakish. Afro-American Fiction, 1853-1976: A Guide to Information
Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1979.
Ref. PS374.N4 M3
Matthews, Geraldine O, and
the African-American Materials Project staff, compilers. Black
American Writers, 1773-1949: A Bibliography and Union List.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1975.
Ref. E185.M37
Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. African
American Authors, 1745-1945: Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Ref. PS153.N5 A32
2000
Newby, James Edward. Black
Authors: A Selected Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland,
1991.
Ref. E185.N495 1991
Peavy, Charles D. Afro-American
Literature and Culture Since World War II: A Guide to Information Sources.
Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1979.
Ref. PS153.N5 P39
Pettis, Joyce Owens. African
American Poets: Lives, Works, and Sources. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood
Press, 2002.
Ref. PS153.N5 P48 2002
Starling, Marion Wilson. The
Slave Narrative: Its Place in American History. Washington,
D.C: Howard UP, 1988.
E444.S8 1988
Valade, Roger M. III,
and Denise Kasinec, eds. The Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature:
From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research,
1996.
Ref. PN841 .S36 1996
Whitlow, Roger. Black
American Literature; A Critical History, With a 1,520-Title Bibliography
of Works Written By and About Black Americans. Chicago, Nelson
Hall, 1973.
PS153.N5 W45
Yellin, Jean Fagan. The
Pen Is Ours: A Listing of Writings By and About African-American Women
Before 1910 With Secondary Bibliography to the Present.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
PS153.N5 Y44 1991
Biographical
Resources
Biography and Genealogy
Master Index (BGMI)
(Access
from Search Databases -
Browse
Indexes and Databases Alphabetically on the library homepage). BGMI is a comprehensive
index to millions of biographical sketches in more than 2,700 volumes and
editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary
and historical figures throughout the world.
Contemporary Authors Online
Contemporary Authors is a comprehensive source of biographical information
on over 100,000 modern novelists, playwrights, poets, scriptwriters, non-fiction
writers and journalists.
African American Writers.
Valerie Smith, ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
Ref. PS153.N5.A344 2001 2 vols.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Black
American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.
PS153.N5 B5335 1995
Bloom, Harold, ed. Black
American Prose Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. New York:
Chelsea House, 1994.
Ref. PS366.A35 B58
1994
Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co.
Ref. PN451.D54
Afro-American Fiction
Writers After 1955 v.33 1984
Afro-American Writers After
1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers v.38 1985
Afro-American Poets Since
1955 v.41 1985
Afro-American Writers Before
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| Images
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