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Report No Available from Descriptors Abstract DOCUMENT RESUME ED 373 127 UD 030 023 AUTHOR Ham, Debra Newman, Ed.; And Others TITLE The African-American Mosaic. A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. INSTITUTION Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. REPORT NO ISBN-0-8444-0800-X PUB DATE 93 NOTE 319p. AVAILABLE FROM Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. PUB TYPE Historical Materials (060) Reference Materials Directories/Catalogs (132) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC13 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Bibliographic Records; Black Culture; *Black History; *Civil Rights; Civil War (United States); Library Guides; *Library materials; *Racial Relations; Slavery; *United States History; User Needs (Information); World War I; World War II IDENTIFIERS *African Americans; Library of Congress ABSTRACT This book presents a broad survey of the Library of Congress's holdings concerning the history and culture of black Americans in the United States. It provides titles of bibliographies, other guides, aids to finding materials, and individual items. This guide, which is arranged chronologically, discusses Library of Congress collections in three main parts: Part 1, "African-Americans in the Antebellum Period," includes materials about: slavery; free blacks; and abolitionists' antislavery movements, and sectional controversy. Part 2, "Emancipation and Beyond," begins with the Civil War, moves into the Reconstruction era, (which includes materials dating to approximately 1880) ,and ends with what is called the Booker T. Washington era, which spans the years from 1880 to approximately 1915. Part 3, "And the Pursuit of Happiness," discusses: World War I and Postwar Society; the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II; and the Civil Rights era. The guide contains an index. 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II .10111<71.11010Nel ia I0eiT101100 *UMW /814 OMIT**Ternf J*404e 7'0 """ VC 19100010? ,0104fl,000g010%Ea 1011101101170111 " AS 00 MO, 04117 UP SOL ARO le4t7101111711117 OOSQOT 1.72.4.1:1-.Fth 0,1177A0 070400110 07 USURY -., trw.:77..7-7- iliSS:VI,Ei 1421771 :474 : i i i 2V42:Z4 iaa 1.4.:.:.=4,:::,.fi lEgi 7 'tg4 1 imt alto mown owartOvol{ *ma Ir2,1 Orune 40illMe0M0106.11111.040011001 0144.**1* WWII* 001101410171C ~MINX. 'AMERICAN MOM 'MEAT. " _ 4 THE AFRICAN- AMERICAN MOSAIC A LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RESOURCE GUIDE FOR THE STUDY OF BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE edited by DEBRA NEWMAN HAM with contributions by Beverly Brannan, prints and photographs Dena I. Epstein, music Ronald Grim, maps and atlases Debra Newman Ham, manuscripts Ardie S. Myers, general collections David L. Parker, motion pictures Rosemary Fry Plakas, rare books Brian Taves, motion pictures LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Washington 1993 5 ® The paper in this publication nwets the requirements ftwper»wnence established by the American National Standard ANSINISO Z39.48-1992, Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress. The African-American mosaic: a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history and culture / edited by Debra Newman Ham; with contributions by Beverly Brannan. ..let al.]. p. Cm. Includes bibliographicid references and index. ISBN 0-8444-0800-x (alk. paper) Copy 3 z663.A74 1993 T. Afro-AmericansHistorySourcesBibliographyCatalogs. 2. Library of Congress--Catalogs.1. Ham, Debra Newman, 1948- Branimn, Beverly W., 1946- . z1361.N391,47 7993 le784.61 o76.973'o496073dc2o 93-21605 CIP Designed by Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden For sale by the Superintendent of Documents L1.5. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 FRONTISPIECE: "Afro-Amen( an Monument." a chromolithograph showing the history ot African-Americans from 1619 to 1897, published for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville in 1897. (PP PGA LC-USZ62- 22 39; LC- USZC,I -- 2329 (color!) _ CONTENTS Foreword by James H. Billington vii Preface by Debra Newman Ham ix Note to Researchers xi How to Use This Guide xiii Abbreviations xv Acknowledgments xvii Contributors xix PART ONE: AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE ANTEBELLUM PERIOD CHAPTER ONE SlaveryThe Peculiar Institution 2 CHAPTER TWO Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period 30 CHAPTER THREE Abolitionists, Antislavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy 50 PART IWO: FOREVER FREEEMANC1PATION AND BEYOND CHAPTER FOUR The Civil War 68 CHAPTER FIVE Reconstruction and Its Aftermath 92 CHAPTER SIX The Booker T. Washington Era PART THREE: AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS CHAPTER SEVEN World War land Postwar Society 158 CHAPTER EIGHT The Depression, the New Deal, and World War 11 186 CHAPTER NINE The Civil Rights Era 222 Index 261 FOREWORD The Library of Congress, the oldest national cul- single volume, the Library of Congress has pre- tural institution in the United States, is also the sented a broad survey of its holdings in the world's largest repository of recorded knowl- history and culture of black Americans in the edge. The holdings are universal and diverse, United States. Many items are unique. Even reflecting the vision of the Library's founder, readers who are unable to make the trip to Thomas Jefferson, whose collections formed the Washington, D.C., will profit from the publica- Library's original core. The formats which store tion's information on general reference works. this knowledge are also variedhooks, period- Eventually the Library hopes to make much of icals, manuscripts, prints, photographs, motion this unique material available electronically to pictures, sound recordings, films, microform, readers everywhere. microfiche, CD-ROM. The list goes on. This volume is the second in a series of topi- As the United States has grown more con- cal guides. The first, published in 1992, wds scious of its diverse heritage, the extensive col- Keys to the Encounter: A Library of Congress Re- lections on African-American history and cul- source Guide for the Study of the Age of Discovery, ture held by the national library have drawn by Louis De Vorsey, Jr. Subsequent volumes more interest. Yet the size, variety, and value will deal with native American studies and of these great collections are not sufficiently World War known. Moreover, serious researchers have had We will be pleased if this publication eases to become extremely sophisticated sleuths in or- the work of researchers everywhere and in- der to uncover the full range of relevant materi- duces readers to come in person to explore the als. This has been unavoidable because the col- collections. As Americans become more aware lections are housed in three different buildings of the many strands that constitute the national on Capitol Hill and at distant secondary storage culture, we hope this volume will also make a facilities, and because books and other materi- modest contribution to greater knowledge and als are served to readers from many reading understanding among our citizens. rooms within the institution. Publication of The African-American Mosaic fames H. Billington should ease the researcher's task. Here in a The Librarian of Congress 9 E.,scnrE snie8 IURE FROBOSTOIJ ;!, , , 71 t A 1 BOttEw /471 "AA >I it IA t, 991914 .9,11,91 144 crw414144 an 1-4911 ma. 94 911441.9an. 414.44... la 41.994 4 , .14 I4 814141, 4,91. 49.a.911.499111. ONI4494 Haat,4444. It) PREFACE In weaving together the work of eight contribu- matically. Books, plays, newspapers and other tors to this guide, I have tried to highlight for periodicals, sheet music, prints, photographs researchers a variety of the sources relating to nostalgic of the Old South, caricatures of freed African-American history and culture that the slaves, population maps, and countless items in Library of Congress holds in its general and spe- "Negro dialect" flooded the Library, along with cial collections. Because the resources relating serious works by and about blacks. to black Americans are vast, it is impossible to By 1897 when a separate Library of Congress list every pertinent item. This guide does not building was occupied, African-American li- pretend to serve as an item-level index or even a brarian Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, who collection-level survey of Library holdings. The worked at the Library for over fifty years, had authors hope, however, that these pages will already initiated an acquisition policy to bring alert users to the richness of our collections to the Library published materials by and about and encourage increased use of little-known blacks.
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