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INTRODUCTION TO ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BLACK HISTORY In compiling this bibliography of Black history I have tried to arrange the books by subject matter in the following way: Part 1-Black history up to the Civil W4ar Part 2-F: om the CivilXlWar to Present Time Part 3-Complete Histories in one volume or volumes Part 4-Biographies of famous Black Men Part 5-The African Heritage This bibliography is a collection of selected bibliographies from various sources. Most of these books can be borrowed from the Main Library or the Mechanics Library. Some of these books can be purchased at Marcus's Book Sho2k opposite the Civic Center Museum on McAllister Street. This Bibliography is a collection of books aimed at the High School level and above. Paul Heller-Volunteer, Human Rights Commission

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UNIVERSITY OF CAL FNIF x SERK~&EY An Annotated bibliography of Black History Early History: to Civil War Aptheker, Herbert, AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVE REVOLTS. New York International publishers, 1963 416 pp. A moving account of desperate efforts of Negroes to make their way to freedom. Aptheker, Herbert, NETRO SLIAVE REVOLTS IN THE UNITET) STATES:1526-1860 International, New York., 1939. Account of large and small rebellions by slaves against the system. Bennett, Lerone, Jr. BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER: A HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA, 1619-1964. Baltimore, Penguin Books, Inc.1965 435 pp. Full history of the Negro from the great empires of the Nile Valley to the Negro revolt of the 1960's. Owens, William A. SLAVE MUTINY : REVOLT ON THE SCHOONER AMISTAD. Day,1953 . The account of one of the few uprisings during the middle passage. Sterling, Dorothy, FOREVER FREE. Doubleday, 1963. Highlights of incidents and personalities which dramatize tY e beginning of slavery in America and the long, hard struggle to abolish it. Quarles, Benjamin, THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, University of Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1961. Full-scale account of this topic. Wesley, Charles H. IN FREEDOM'S FOOTSTEPS. New York , Publishers Co. under the auspices of the Assn. index,photos, portraits, 28cm, bound (5 vol). This book is divided into 17 chapters: The African Background. Exploration and advent of the slave trade. The rise of the slave trade. Slavery in the English colonies. The free Negro in the colonial era. The Negro and the American War for Independence. From revolution to constitution. Organization and achievement. The period of reaction. The Negro and the War of 1812. Colonization and compromise. The spirit of freedom. Revolt and abolition. Negro participation in the abolition movement and antebellum social progress. Early Negro crusaders. Plantation life and Southern labor. Facing political and social issues. Picture album. "It is a well-known fact that today few Americans are aware that the Negro people have a long history of proud achievement. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BLACK HISTORY Civil War to Present Aptheker, Herbert, AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVE REVOLTS. New York International Publishers, 1963 416 pp. A moving account of desperate efforts of Negroes to make their way to freedom. Bontemps, Arna, 100 YEARS OF NEGRO FREEDOM. Dodd, 1961. The Negro's ideas and advances since the Civil War with Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, the NAACP, and the Urban League representing various goals and experiments. Botkin, B.A. LAY MY BURDEN DOWN: FOLK HISTORY OF SLAVERY. Phoenix Books. Chicago , 1954. Memories of ex-slaves. Buckmaster, Henrietta, FLIGHT TO FREEDOM: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROADCrowell, 1958. A stirring account of the slaves, 2000 every year, who escaped from the South via the Underground Railroad, and of the people who risked their lives to run the "stations".

Buckmaster, Henrietta , FREEDOM BOUND. Macmillan, 1965. A reassessment of the First Reconstruction Period(1868-1875) holding that "social and economic revolution was attempted on a scale never before envisioned by man". Donovan ,Frank, MR. LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION. Dodd,19641. A readable study of the Emancipation Proclamation with emphasis on the military and political reasons for its issuance and the effects of the document. Drake, St. Clair, THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THE NEGRO: 100 Years of Freedom?. The Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Lectures, Jan-Feb. 1963. Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois. Dubois, William E.B. BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA . Cleveland. The World Publishing Company (Meridian Books) 1962. 747 pp. A history of the Negro's role in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Dunbar, Ernest, THE NEGRO IN AMERICA4 TODAY, reprinted from LOOK. How 19 million Americans are faring with respect to employment, housing and education. 1964 12pp. Hughes, Langston, BEST SHORT STORIES BY NEGRO WRITERS. Little Brown 1967 Scenes of Black life by writers from the Civil War to the present. Latwack, Leon F. NORTH OF SLAVERY, U. of Chicago Press, 1961. Negroes in the Free States from 1790-1860. McCarthy, Agnes, and Reddick, Lawrence, WORTH FIGHTING FOR. Doubleday 1965. The Negrc's part in the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era simply presented. Quarls, Benjamin, THE NEGRO IN THE CIVIL WAR, Little Brown, 1953 A historian reports of the Negro contribution to the Union cause. Shenton, James, P. THE RECONSTRUCTION: 1865-1877. Capricorn Books.1963 Documentary history. Singletary, Otis A. NEGRO MILITIA AND RECONSTRUCTION: University of ANNOTJTIED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BLhCK HISTORY Civil War to the Present-Continued Page 2 Texas Press, Austin, 1957. Negro militias in the turbulant days following the Civil War. Stampp, Kenneth M. THE PECULIJR INSTITUTION, SLAVERY IN THE ANTE- BELLUM SOUTH. Vintage. Interprets economic aspects of slavery. Challenges the notion that slavery was not as profitable as paid labor and would have died out with the rise of industrialism. In the preface, the author states, "... I firmly believe that one must know what slavery meant to the Negro and how he reacted to it before one can comprehend his more recent tribulations. Veltzer, Milton and Meier,August. TIME OF TRIAL, TIME OF HOPE: THE NEGRO IN AMERICi~ ,1919 to 1941 Doubleday, 1966. The Negro's struggle for equality, from the exodus to the North after World War 1 to the the current freedom movement.

WoodwardC.Van, THE STRANGE C,.REER OF' JIM CROW. Considers the reasons for the effects of Jim Crow(segregation) laws and practices as they developed during the late 1800's, especially in the south. Traces legal fight against Jim Crow from Plessy V. Ferguson (separate but equal doctrine) to Brown vs.Board of Education of Topeka(desegration) Walker, Margaret, JUBILEE. Houghton,1966. Historical novel of the black man's Civil War and Reconstruction, seen through the eyes Vyry, daughter of a plantation owner and a Black slave. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BLACK HISTORY

Complete Histories in one volume or two volumes Aptheker, Herbert, DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE NEGRO PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES. New Yor'k, Citadel Press, 1951 2 Vols. A collection of hundreds of dCocumrients, Apaches tirld letters covering American negro history through 1910.

Aptheker, Herbe-rt, TO BE FREE: STUDIES IN AMERICAN NEGRO HISTORY. International, N.Y. 1948. Blaustein, Albert P. and Zangrando, Robert L. ed. CIVIL RIGHTS AND THEAiMERICAN NEGRO. New York, Washington Square Press, 1968.397pp. Documented records from 1619 to the present day provide essential background for understanding the crises that face our society today. Bennett, Lerone, Jr., BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER: A HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA, 1619-1964. Baltimore, Penguin Books,Inc.1965 435 pp. Full history of the Negro from the great empires of the Nile Valley to the Negro revolt of the 1960ose Bontemps, Arna, THE STORY OF THE NEGRO,Knopf, 1958. An informal record of the Negro from early slavery in America to the present, with a chronological table of Negro history in America. Brown, Ina Corinne. THE STORY OF THE AMERIC"N NEGRO Friendship Press New York 1957. Covers 300 years of history, beginning with an account of the glorious Negro civilizations in Africa and continuing through the changing social and economic patterns experienced by the Negro in American life. CieciorkaC Bobbi and Frank, NEGROES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: A FREEDOM PRIMER. Student Voice, Inc 1965. An elementary book of short selections about the Negro from the Revolutionary War to the 1960's. Clemons, Lulamea, Hollitz, Erwin, and Gardner, Gordon. THE AMERICAiN NEGRO, New York, Mc Graw-Hill Book Company.1965. Survey of highlights of Negro History from Colonial to the present. Davis, John P., editor, THE AMERICAN NEGRO REFERENCE BOOK, New York Prentice hall, Inc.1966. Sponsored by Phelps-Stokes Fund. Tables, charts, and articles covering every major aspect of 300 years of Negro life and achievement. Franklin, John Tope. FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM. Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Begins with african civilization and follows the Negro through the history of the United States to a consideration of his present-day status in this country. Goldston,Robert, THENEGRO REVOLUTION.Macmillan, 1968. Black history from the ancient African kingdoms to the present. Herskovits, Melville, THE MYTH OF THE NEGRO PAST. The part that African culture and heritage still play in the life of the American Negro today. iNNOTATED BIB3LIOGRAPHY OF BLACK HISTORY COMPLETE HISTORIES-Continued page 2

Hughes, Langston, and Meltzer, E. Milton. A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE NJGRO IN AMERICA. Highlights contributing factors that have led to the contemporary racial strife in America. Fully illustrated with photographs, drawings, documents, letters, talles, maps etc. Good source for quick information on essential factors of Negro history. Katz, William Loren, TEACHER'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN NEGRO HISTORY. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1968 192pp. Valuable reference guide to American Negro history, divided into chronologically arranged units with careful and pertinent annotatiens and bibliography listings. Meltzer, Milton ed. IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Ai HISTORY OF THE AMERICAsN NEGRO.New York, Thomas Crowell Co0(3 vol) Vol.1(1619-1865) Vol.ll (1865-1916) Vol.lll (1916-1966).Through letters, diearies, journals, speeches, and the testimony of Negroes, the reader gains an authentic picture of a tragic and heroic phase of American history. In these expressions of hope and sorrow, present-day Americans find inspirations as they continue the civil rights struggle. Ottley, Roi and Weatherby, William J. (ed) The Negro in New York. The New York Public Library, 1967. An informal social history from 1626 when the first 11 Negroes arrived in New nms&erdam through the 1930's in Harlem. Parsons, Talcott and Clark, Kenneth B. editors. THE NEGRO 1-'1MERIC4iN. Boston Mifflin Company and the American academy of Arts and Sciences, 781 P., Illus, Index, reference. The study presents the collection of 34 contributors, divided into 7 chapters.The papers testify to the inter. locking effects of deprivation in education, in housing , in employment, in citizenship and in the entire range of human endeavor by which personality is formed. Quarles, Benjamin and Sterling, Dorothy, THE NEGRO IN THE MiAKING OF 4'MERIC . 14ew York, Collier Books, 1964.288pp. Influence of the Negro in the United States from Pre-Revolutionary days to the 1960's. Redding, Saunders, THE NEGRO.Washington, D.C. Potomac Books, 1967.101 pages. This comprehensive book is divided into 4 parts and 8 chapters. The purpose of this bo-,k is to trace in hist'rical sequence, but in topical outline, one of the major issues in American Life. Reddinlg ,Saunders, THE LONESOME ROAD: THE STORY OF THE NEGRO IN iLMERICA, Doubleday, 1958.0 popular history of the Negro in America which selects and analyzes the positive contributions of significant Negroes, some of them well-known and some not. Woodson, Carter, THE NEGRO IN OUR HISTORY,Assoc. Pub. Washington,1922. Good readable text by Howard University historiah, covers the history of the problem. Woodson, Carter and Wesley, Charles. THE STORY OF THE NEGRO RETOLD. Associated Publishers, 1959. A basic general history of the Negro in America from his first arrival to 1959, designed primarily as a text. AUGUST 16y AN ANNOTATED BTRBL'_QGiPHY OF I1JACK HISTORY Biographies Adams, Russell L., GREAT NEGROES; PAST AND PRESENT. Afro-am,1964 150 Concise biographies of Negroes from all parts of the world and all periods of history. Bardolph, Richard, THE NEGRO VANGUARD.New York. Random HouseInc. (Vintage Books).1959 388pp. Highly readable study of 131 Negro leaders since the American Revolution. The suthor treats briefly of the social origins of this group and sets forth is conclusions about the social climate that favored their rise. Bennett, Lerone Jr. WHAT MANNER OF MAN, Pocket Books 1964. The philosophy, goals, and accomplishments of Martin Luther King presented by an author who admires him greatly. Bernard, Jacqueline. JOURNEY TOWARD FREEDOM: THE STCRY OF SOJOURNER TRUTH. Norton,1967. The freed New York slave who preached and pleaded throughout the country for the rights of Negroes. Bontemps, Arna. THI STORY OF THE NEGRO. Knopf, 1958. An informal record of the Negro from early slavery in America to the present with a chronological table of Negro history in America. Bontemps, Arna,100 YEARS OF NEGRO FREEDOM, Dodd, 1961. The Negro's ideas and advances since the Civil War with Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B.DuBois, and NAACP, The Urban League representing various goals and experiments. For the student ready for solid reading. Buckmaster, Henrietta, FREE1)DOM BOU-ND, Macmillan, 1965. A reassesment of the First Reconstruction Period (1868-1875) holding that "social and economic revolution was attempted on a scale never- before envisioned by man". Not a new interpretation, but the popular style makes it a good general introduction.

Buckmaster, Henrietta, FLIGHT TO FRE.<;DOM: THE STORY OF THE UNDER- GROUND RAILROAD. Crowell, 1958. A stirring account of the slaves- some 2000 every year- who escaped from the South via the Underground Railroad, and of the people who risked their lives to run the "stations". Butcher, Margaret J. THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN CULTURE, Mentor, N.Y. 1956. What Negroes have accomplished in and for America. Clayton, Edward Taylor, MARTIN LUTHER KING: THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR, Prentice 1964. A brief and simple ac'ount of his life and what he has done. Conrad, Earl, HARRIET TUBMAN. Associated Publishers, 1943. A fully documented biography for the serious reader. Donovan, Frank, MR. LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION, Dodd, 1964. A readable study of the Emancipation Proclamation with emphasis on the military and political reasons for its issuance and the effects of the document. Douglass, Frederick(edQuarles). NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS-AN AMERICAiN SLAVE, Harvard 1960. The most famous of slave narratives in which Douglass , at the age of 28, gives a gripping account of his life under slavery and his efforts to escape. Page 2 Continued Annotated Bibliography of Black History Biographies Douglass, Frederick, LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS,Crowell,1966 A thrilling, forceful account of Douglass's life in bondage, escape from slavery, and great career as fugitive slave lecturer. Adapted from his own personal narrative. Douglaso, Frederick (adapted by Barbara Ritchie)THE MIND AND HEA.RT OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Crowell 1968. Excerpts from speeches of the great Negro orator. Fauset, Arthur Huff, SOJOURNER TRUTH: GOB'S FAITHFUL PILGRIM, University of North Carolina, 1938. The biography of an ex-slave renowned in her dty who traveledthe countryover, preaching against slavery under her symbolic name, Sojourner Truth. Graham, Shirley, THERE WAS ONCE A SLAVE... THE HEROIC STORY OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Messner, 1947. A moving story of the man who escaped from slavery and become one of the great leaders of his century-founder of the abolitionist newspaper The North Star, friend of John Brown and Abraham Lincoln, and U.S. Minister to Haiti. Graham, Shirley, YOUR MOSTHUMBLE SERVANT: THE STORY OF BENJAMIN BANNEKER,Messner 1949. The life story of an almost forgotten early American hero who not only excelled as an astronomer and mathematician, but also as a surveyor helped build Washington.D.C. Graham, Shirley, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON,Messner 1955.A portrait of the man whose struggle to educate himself and others played such an important part in the history of the American Negro. Graham, Shirley and Lipscomb,G.D., DOCTOR GEORGE WitSHINGTON CARVER: SCIENTIST. Messner, 1955. The famous chemist who revolutionized Southern agriculture by developing hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, and pecans, thereby proving that a one- crop economy of cotton was not" necessary. Graham, Shirley,JEOAN BAPTISTE POINTE DE SABLE:FOUNDER OF CHICAGO. Messner 1953. The accomplishments of the 18th century immigrant from the West Indies who founded Chicago. Genovese, Eugene D. BLACK STUDIES: TROUBLE AHEAD. The Atlantic June 1969,pp 37-41. "The universities owe to black America what they owe to white America; an atmosphere of freedom and dissent for the pursuit of higher learning. So says a thoughtful historian who warns the the legitimate and constructive tasks of black studies programs can be subverted by indifference to principle or political cynicism.-"

HEDGEMAN, ANN ARNOLD, THE TRUMPET SOUNDS: A MEMOIR OF NEGRO LEADERSHIP. Holt 1964. Memoirs of a remarkable Negro woman who knew no childhood discrimination in Minnesota but was brutally exposed to it as an adult and has made her career a fight against it. Holt, Rackham, GEORGE WA'SHINGTON CARVER. Doubleday, 1942. A detailed and interpretive biography for readers. Page 3 Contined Annotated Bibliographies Biography Holt,Rackham, MA'1RY MCLEOD BETHUNE. Doubleday 1964. A detailed biography of the woman who established the Bethune-Cookman College for Negroes in Daytona, Florida. Hughes, Langston, FAMOUS AMERICAN NEGROESDodd 1945. Short biographies of famous Negroes including Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatly, A.Philip Randolph, and Ralph Bunche. Hughes, Langston, FAMOUS NEGRO HEROES OF AMERICA. Dodd 1958. sixteen men and women from the 16th century to the present. Jones, and Durham , THE NEGRO COWBOY. Negro cowboys played a large part in opening up the west. The cowboy tgles are not only fascinating reading , but put the Negro back into a part of our history from which he has been totally obliterated. McCarthy, Agnes and Teddick, Law±emce, WORTH FIGHTING FOR, Doubleday 1965. The negro's part in the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era simply presented.

Malcolm X and Haley, Alex, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X.Grove, 1965. An important document in American Negro history as well as an intensely personal, honest, and revealing account of the Black Nationalists amazing life. Miller, Floyd, AHDOOLO. Dutton 1963. A true adventure story as lived by Matthew A.Henson, the Negro who accompanied Admiral Perry to the North Pole. Osborne, Charles (ed), I HAVE A DREAM. Time and Life Books 1968 Highlights of the life of Martin Luther King in words and pictures. A memorial volume. Peare, Catherine Owens, MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE. Vanguard.1951 A sympathetic, understanding biography for the reader interested in the character of this great woman educator. Pauli, Hertha, HER NAiME WAS SOJOURNER TRUTH, Appleton-Century Croft, New York 1962. Biography of a former save Abolitionist.

Petry ,Ann . HARRIET TUBMAN : CONDUCTOR ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Crowell,1955. An authentic and vivid biography of the ex-slave who led over three hundred slaves to freedom. Redding, Saouders, THE LONESOME ROAD: THE STORY OF ThE NEGRO IN AMERICA, Doubleday, 1958. A popular history of the Negro in America which selects and analyzes the postivie contributions of significant Negroes, some of them will-known and some not. Richardson, Ben. GREAT AMERICAN NEGROES,Crowell,1965/ Brief biographies of 26 twentieth century Negroes famous in many different areas: Marion Anderson, 4fnn Petry, Walter White, Richard Wright, for example. page 4 Continued-Annotated Bibliography Biographies Rollins, C. THEY SHOWED THE WAY: FORTY AMERICAN NEGRO LEADERS. Crpwe.l, 1964/ Fampus Negroes in all fields and from all times in history-Ira Aldrice, Richard Allen and 38 others. Sterling, Dorothy and Quarles, Ben, LIFT EVERY VOICE Doubleday 1965. Biographies of Mary Church Terrell, W.E.B.DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, and Booker T. Washington. Sterling, Dorothy, FOREVER FREE, Doubleday, 1963. Highlights of incidents and personalities which dramatize the beginning of slavery in America and the long, hard struggle to abolish it. Sterling, Dorothy, CAPTAIN OF THE PLANTER. Doubleday 1958. How Robert Smalls, born into slavery, fought for his freedom, captured a Confederate ship for the Union, and later became a U.S. Congressman from South Carolina in 1875. Sterne, Emma Gelders, MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE. Knopf 1957. A warm and intelligent appraisal of her life and accomplishments. Washington, Booker T. UP FROM SLAVERY, Doubleday, 19635 The classic autobiography of the man who though born in slavery educated himself and founded the Institute. Woodson, Carter and Wesley, Charles, THE STORY OF THE NEGRO RETOLD, Associated Publishers, 1959. A basic general history of the Negro in America from his first arrival to 1959. Designed primarily for high school students and teachers. An Annotated Bibliography of Black History African Herite Bohannan, Paul, AFRICA AND AFRICANS. Garden City, New York. The Natural History Press, 1964. American Museum Science Books. Publ'ui shed for the American Museum of Natural History.XI, 260pp bibliography, index, maps, 18cm. The book consists of 4 parts arnd fifteen chapters as follow: The New Africa:l. The myth and the fact. 2. Colonialism and the seeds of freedom. Ancient Africa: 3. The African Continent. 4. The peopling of Africa. 5. The peoples of Africa. 6 Farms and Iron.7. Darkest Africa.8.Tribal Africa.9.African Arts. 10African Families. 11. African land and labor,12.African politics and courts. 13. African Markets. 14. African religion. Africa and the modern world. "The aim of this book is to put African culture in modern perspective for Western raaders by the concomitant examinMU;tion of the African facts and the Western myths that have obscured it. Davidson, Basil, BLACK MOTHER, Little-Brown, 1961. The years nf the African slave trade, including documentation from old letters:, journals, and diaries. Davidson, Basil and Editors of Time-Life Books, AFRICAN KINGDOMS. Time,1966. An acoount of ancient civilizations of the Nilemerchant empires, foorest kingdoms, and tribal societies. Shinnie, M rgaret, ANCIENT AFRICAN KINGDOMS. St Martin's, 1966.An outline of what is known If the ancient African world. Turnbull, Colin, THE LONELY AFRICANN.Doubleday,1965. Critical essays dealing with traditiot~al and non-traditional attitudes in modern Africa. Turnbull, Colin, THE PEOPLES OF AFRICA, World, 1962. Hunters, nomads, cultivators then and now. 1LNNOTihTED BI3LIOGRXIPH. Y OF BLtLCK HISTORY Schomburg collection of Negro Literarure and History Suggested Bibliographies. .fiRICA. Branch Libr B Vol.43 (December, 1965). Edited by Ele,.ancr Padwan, Office of Adult Services. The New York Public Library. 8 pages. Copies of BRANCH LIBRA'LRY BOOK NEWS are twenty-five cents each by mail. Printed and published by the New York Public Library Fifth avenue and 42nd. Street, New York, New York 10018

BOOKS, FILMSRECORDINGS BY .ND i)3OUT THE AMERICAN NEGRO: a selected list for young adults. 1968 Edition. Selected by Young Adult Librarians. The N. York pub]ic Library Single copies of this list are available on request from the North Planhattan Project, Countee Cullen Regional Branch, The New York Public Library,104 West 136th Street, New York, New York 10030. BOOKS AiBOUT iUE]GRkO LIFE FOR CHILD:KgN. "tugusta Baker, Coordinator of Children's Services, The New York Public Library, Revised 1963 .22pg. A current revision of this list is in preparation. For information contact the Office of Children's Services, The New York Public Libvary, 8 East 40th Street, New York, New York 10016. DICTIONARY C.,TiALOG OF THE SCHOM33URG COLLECTION OF NEGRO LITEAITURE ,ND HISTORY. The New York Public Library. 9 Vol. set ($665.00) 2 vol. Supp(4lO5.OO)G.K.Hall&Co.,7O Lincoln Street, Boston ,Mass.02111 HARLEM: At CULTURAL HISTORY. Selected bibliography by Jean Blackwell Hutson. The material in this bibliography, compiled in the summer of 1968 can be found in the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, The New York Public Library, 103 West 135 St. New York, New York 10030. Biographies are alphabetized by subjkect. THE NEGRO IN THE UNITED STIATES: At list of significant books,9th Revised Edition. The New York Public Libvary.1965.24pages. Copies may be obtained for one dollar from the Sales Shop of the New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, New York 10018.

THE NEGRO IN THE UNITED SThTES: A list of significant books. A supplement to the 9th Revised Edition. 1968.9pages. NEGRO HISiTORY r1ND CULTURE: A Bibliography of books for young readers Miles M. Jackson, Jr. Editor -In-Chief. Puib. by U of Pittsburg Press for Aitlanta University. $2.50 HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF SAN FRANCISCO 1095 MARKET SRE SUITE 501 SA FRAONCSCO, CALIFORNIA 94103 TELEPHONE 5584901 August 29, 1969 Page 1 of 1 page FOR IMEDIATE RELEASE FOR FURTHER INFORATIaN: Jack Casford BIBLIOGRAPHY CN BLACK HISTORY OFFERED BY HUMAN RIGHTS C(XISSICN

An Annotated Bibliography of Black History aimed primarily at high school level readers and above, is being offered free-of-charge by the Htan Rights Commission. Compiled by a volunteer worker for the Connission, Paul Heller, the bib- liography is in five parts: - Black History up to the Civil War; - Civil War to the present time; - Complete histories in one or more volumes; - Biographies of famous black men, and, - the African heritage. Most of the books can be borrowed from the City's Cain Library or its branches or the Mechanics' Institute Library. The bibliography sections are arranged by author, alphabetically and give a one or two sentence description of the books' contents. The subjects range from biographies to history to anthologies to reference guides. Copies of the bibliography may be obtained by writing the H1uan Rights Gommission, 1095 Market Street-Room 501, San Francisco, Ca. 94103 or by calling the reception desk at 558-4901. gs/Attachment