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Black History Month HERMANN MEMORIAL LIBRARY -- SULLIVAN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE BLACK HISTORY MONTH SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TITLES FROM OUR PRINT COLLECTIONS AND FROM EBRARY The following bibliography is a sampling from our collections of the broad range of work by and about African Americans reflecting their immeasurable importance in our history and culture. It includes reference books, and circulating books.. The bibliography is not a checklist of books on display in the exhibition, but each is intended to complement the other. Many more books than are listed here can be found in our Sullivan Catalog. Full-text articles in magazines, journals and newspapers can be accessed from our Subscription Periodical Databases. A librarian will be glad to show you how to search these tools. Our own paper periodical collections include many titles of especial relevance to Black studies, as well as general interest magazines which cover Black issues. See our separately issued Periodical List. Books by and about Martin Luther King have been published in another bibliography available in this library. Please refer to that bibliography to research this topic. I. REFERENCE BOOKS African American lives. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) R 920.9301451/AF83G African American writers. Valerie Smith, editor. Rev. ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2000) R 810.9/AF83S Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience. (New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999) R 301.451/AF83A Afro-American poetry and drama, 1760-1975: a guide to information sources. (Detroit: Gale, 1979) R 810.90/AF85. Afro-American poets since 1955. Edited by Trudier Harris and Thadious M. Davis. (Detroit: Gale, 1985) R 810.092/D561 Asante, Molefi K. 100 greatest African Americans: a biographical encyclopedia. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002) R920.9301451/AS130 Ashe, Arthur. A hard road to glory: a history of the African-American athlete, 1919-1945. (N.Y.: Warner, 1988) R 796/AS35HA Bader, Philip. African-American writers . (New York: Facts on File, c2004) R 810.9/B141A Black playwrights, 1823-1977: an annotated bibliography. (NY: Bowker, 1977) R 812.0/H281 Blacks in America: bibliographical essays. James M. McPherson and others. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971) R 301.4510/B567 Brooks, Tilford. America's Black musical heritage. (NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984) R 781.72/B791A. Carey, Charles W. African-American political leaders. (New York: Facts On File, c2004) R 301.451/C188A Davis, John. The American Negro Reference Book. (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1966) R301.451/D294 Ebony pictorial history of Black America . By the editors of Ebony. (Chicago: Johnson Pub, 1971) R 301.451/E874 Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history. (N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1995) 5 v. R 301.451/EN19S Freedom on my mind: the Columbia documentary history of the African American experience. (New York: Columbia University Press, c2003) R 301.451/F875M Gates, Henry Louis, and Cornel West. The African-American century: how Black Americans have shaped our country. (New York: Free Press, 2000) R 920.9301451/G223A Gates, Henry Louis, and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds. African American lives. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) R 920.9301451/AF83G Hine, Darlene Clark. Black women in America: an historical encyclopedia. (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1993) 2 v. R 920.7/B561H Hughes, Langston. A pictorial history of Blackamericans. (N.Y.: Crown Publishers, 1973) R301.451/H874P2 The illustrated encyclopedia of Black music. (N.Y. Harmony, 1982) R 784.756/IL6 Katz, William Loren. Eyewitness: the Negro in American history. (NY: Pitman, 1967) R301.451/K159E Mason, Clifford. The African-American bookshelf: 50 must-reads from before the Civil War through today. (New York: Citadel Press, c2003) R 301.4510/M381A My soul looks back, 'less I forget: a collection of quotations by people of color. (New York, NY: HarperCollins, c1993) R 808.88/M99R Ostrom, Hans A., ed. The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American literature. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005) R 810.989607/G856O Ostrom, Hans A. A Langston Hughes encyclopedia . (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2002) R 813.54/H874/ZZOS Otfinoski, Steven. African Americans in the visual arts. (New York: Facts on File, c2003) R 704.0396073/OT2A A portrait of Eve: toward a social history of black women in the Hudson River Valley. (New Paltz, NY: Center for the Study of the African Presence in the Hudson Valley, 1987) R301.451/W6762P Rollock, Barbara. Black authors and illustrators of children's books: a biographical dictionary. (NY: Garland, 1988) R 809.0/R658BL Rollock, Barbara. The Black experience in children's books. (NY: New York Public Library, 1984) R 809.0/R658BL Samuels, Wilfred D., ed. Encyclopedia of African-American literature . (New York, NY : Facts On File, c2007) R 810.989607/EN19S Schwarz-Bart, Simone. In praise of black women. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001) R 301.451/SCH96I v.1 Shockley, Ann. Living Black American authors: a biographical directory. (NY: Bowker, 1973) R 810.9054/SH72L Shaw, Arnold. Black popular music in America. (NY: Schirmer, 1986) R 781.72/SH26B The social and economic status of the Black population in the United States, 1790-1978: an historical view. (Wash. D.C.: GPO, 1979) R 312/U587S Southern, Eileen. The music of Black Americans: a history. (NY: Norton, 1983) R781.72/SO88M Spangenburg, Ray and Kit Moser. African Americans in science, math, and invention. (New York: Facts on File, c2003) R509.2273/Sp23A Welsch, Erwin K. The Negro in the United States: a research guide. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965) R 301.4510/W464 Whalen, Charles. The longest debate: a legislative history of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (NY: New American Library, 1985) R342.730873/W553L Whitlow, Roger. Black American literature: a critical history. (NJ: Littlefield, Adams, 1974) R810.9/W59B Who's who among African Americans. (Detroit: Gale) R 920.9301451/W62/1996-97 Williams-Myers, Albert James. An illustrated bio-bibliography of Black photographers, 1940-88. (NY: Garland, 1980) R 770.922/W679I Willis-Thomas, Deborah. Black photographers, 1840-1940. (NY: Garland, 1985) R770.92/W679B Wintz, Cary D., and Paul Finkelman, eds. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. (New York: Routledge, 2004) R 700.8996073/EN19W II. CIRCULATING BOOKS ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. Brothers in arms: the epic story of the 761 st Tank Batallion, WWII’s forgotten heroes. (New York: Random House, 2004) Ebrary Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. On the shoulders of giants: my journey through the Harlem Renaissance. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007) 796.323092/AB32O Abu-Jamal, Mumia with Noelle Hanrahan. All things censored. (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000) 364.66/AB91/ZZA Adams, Francis D. Alienable rights: the exclusion of African Americans in a white man’s land, 1619-2000. (New York: HarperCollins Publisher, 2003) 301.451/AD17A Adeleke, Tunde. Without regard to race: the other Martin Robison Delany . (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c2003) 973.7/D374/ZZA African Americans: opposing viewpoints. (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1997) 301.451/AF83D Ainslie, Ricardo C. Long dark road: Bill King and murder in Jasper, Texas. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004) Ebrary Alexander, Elizabeth. The Black interior: essays. (Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2004) 301.451/AL26B Amistad. (New York: Random House, 1970) 301.45105/AM57 Aptheker, Herbert. Abolitionism: a revolutionary movement. (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989) 973.69/AP84AB Aptheker, Herbert. American Negro slave revolts. (New York: International Publishers, 1963) 973.69/AP84A Aptheker, Herbert. Essays in the history of the American Negro. (New York: International Pubs., l964) 973.69/AP84E Aptheker, Herbert. One continual cry: David Walker's Appeal to the colored citizens of the world. (New York: Published for A.I.M.S. by Humanities Press, 1965) 301.451/AP84 Arneson, Eric. Black protest and the great migration: a brief history with documents. (Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s, c2003) 301.451/AR62B Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice. (New York : Oxford University Press, 2006) Ebrary Baldwin, Lewis V. Between cross and crescent: Christian and Muslim perspectives on Malcolm and Martin. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c2002) 301.451/B1932B Banks, William M. Black intellectuals: race and responsibility in American life. (N.Y.: Plume, 1996) 301.451/B226B Barbour, Floyd B., comp. The Black power revolt: a collection of essays. (Boston: P. Sargent, 1968) 301.451/B234B Barker, Lucius Jefferson. Black Americans and the political system. (Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop Publishers, 1980) 301.451/B243B Barnes, Kenneth C. Journey of hope: back-to-Africa movement in Arkansas in the late 1800s. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2004) Ebrary Baugh, John. Black street speech : its history, structure and survival. (Austin: University of Texas, l983) 427.973/B326B Bell, Derrick. And we are not saved: the elusive quest for racial justice. (NY: Basic, 1987) 301.451/B413A Bell, Gregory S. In the Black: a history of African Americans on Wall Street. (New York: Wiley, 2001) 332.632/B413I Bennett, Lerone. Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, l619-1964. (Baltimore: Penguin, l966) 301.451/B439B Bennett, Lerone. Black power, U.S.A.: the human side of Reconstruction, l867-1877. (Chicago: Johnson, l967) 973.8/B439B Berry, Mary Frances. Long memory : the Black experience in America. (New York: Oxford University Press, l982) 301.451/B459L Berry, Mary Frances. My face is black is true: Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005) 301.451/H816/ZZB also Ebrary Berwange, Eugene H. The frontier against slavery; Western anti-Negro prejudice and the slavery extension controversy. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1967) 973.69/B468F Black men in their own words.
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