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African American Collections in Library A Guide to African American Resources-Library COLLECTION YEAR NUMBER CALL NUMBER NAME DESCRIPTION AUTHOR PUBLISHED History of the Underground railroad in Chester and the neighboring counties of 01075B 973.7115 S637 Library Pennsylvania. Smedley, Robert C. 1883 Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, 1864. The battle ended with a massacre of Union United States Congress Joint Committee on 00451B 973.74 U58 Library troops, most of them African American soldiers the Conduct of the War 1864 02245B 973.7115 S857 Library Underground Rail Road Records from an African American abolitionist William Still 1886 Published letters of First Lieutenant with the 8th Regiment of the United States 02957B 973.78.N886 Library Colored Troops. Norton, Oliver Willcox 1903 04021B 326.7 V252 Library Negroes and Negro slavery J. H. Van Evrie 1861 04046B N/A Library Past, Present, Future: in Prose and Poetry Benjamin Curtis Clark 1867 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum 10248.033PD N/A Periodical Special Edition: Black history and culture Commission 1978 Pennsylvania Heritage Vol. 20 No. 1: Some Questions For Examining Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania Historical and Museum 10248.097PD N/A Periodical Black History Commission 1994 “Loose the Woman and Let Her Go! Pennsylvania's African American Women Pennsylvania Historical and Museum 10248.105PD N/A Periodical Preachers” Commission 1996 "To Be Both a Negro and an American": W.E.B. DuBois and His Search for an African Pennsylvania Historical and Museum 10248.126PD N/A Periodical American Identity Commission 2001 10452B 929.2 W823 Library A History of David and Nancy Walker Witherow and Their Descendants Nancy Witherow Wantz 1955 11639B 973.798 S582 Library Songs of the Civil War, subjects include African American music Irwin Silber 1960 16039PD N/A Periodical The Recruitment of Negro Troops in Maryland John W. Blassingame 2012 17439B 973 I61 Library Introduction to Black literature in America Lindsay Patterson 1968 17443B 973 I61 Library Black Athletes Edwin B. Henderson 1968 17727B 016.91003 S165 Library Layman's Guide to Negro History Erwin A. Salk 1966 17780-86B 326.0916 A512 Library First Annual Report of American Society (Liberia) n.a. 1818 17834B 973.71 B881 Library Negro In The American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity William Wells Brown 1880 17883B 973.71 P535 Library Negro Slave Songs in the United States Fisher, Miles Mark 1953 18247B 973 I61 Library Black America Patricia W. Romero 1969 18756.004PD N/A Periodical The Philadelphia Race Riot of 1918 Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1975 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 119 No. 1, iv. Numbers that Are 18756.049PD N/A Periodical Not New: African Americans in the Country's First Prison, 1790:1835 Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1995 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 127 No. 2, iii. Rethinking Northern White Support for the African Colonization Movement: The Pennsylvania 18756.075PD N/A Periodical Colonization Society as Agent of Emancipation Historical Society of Pennsylvania 2003 18756.104PD N/A Periodical The Politics of the Page: Black Disfranchisement and the Image of the Savage Slave Historical Society of Pennsylvania 2010 18757PD N/A Periodical Hunting the Nigs In Philadelphia: The Race Riots of August, 1834 Pennsylvania Historical Association 1971 18979B 974.841 S562 Library Charrette at York, PA, April 1970 George Shumway 1973 20673B 973.315 Q1 Library Negro in the American Revolution Benjamin Quarles 1973 23271B 974.841 S635 Library African-Americans of Note Smallwood, William Lee 1991 23692B 973.73 C818 Library The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army 1861-1865 Cornish, Dudley Taylor 1987 Chronology of African American history: significant events and people from 1619 to 23694B 301.45 H818 Library the present Alton Hornsby Jr. 1991 23696B 973.73 G543 Library United States Colored Troups 1963-1867 Gladstone, William A. 1990 23898B 973.7415 G543 Library Men of Color Gladstone, William A. 1993 Thomas Morris Chester, black Civil War correspondent: his dispatches from the 24000B 974.7415 B628 Library Virginia front Blackett, E.J.M., ed. 1991 24271B 973.7448 B329 Library History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, VolumeX 208th - 127th Colored Regiment Bates, Samuel P. 1993 24440B 973.621 S631 Library Bloody dawn: the Christiana riot and racial violence in the antebellum north. Slaughter, Thomas P. 1991 24909B 326 C622 Library Slavery, slaveholding, and the free black population of antebellum Baltimore. Clayton, Ralph 1993 25062B 973.745 S446 Library Guide to Tracing your African American Civil War Ancestor Jeanette Braxton Secret 1995 25175B 974.8004 B651 Library African Americans in Pennsylvania: a History and Guide Charles L. Blockson 1994 25881B 770.92273 J55 Library Enterprising images: the Goodridge brothers John Jezierski 2000 26004B 301.45 N552 Library Black history: a guide to civilian records in the National Archives Debra L. Newman 1984 26033B 929.1 T358 Library Finding your African American Ancestors: a Beginner's Guide David T. Thackery 2000 26037B 355.1342 S384 Library Black valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898. Schubert, Frank N. 1979 26074B 973.7115 S979 Library The underground railroad in Pennsylvania. Switala, William J. 2001 26142B 929.2 H468 Library Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the colonial period to 1810 Paul Heinegg 2000 26177B 973.7115 T628 Library Hidden in Plain View (African American Quilts and UGRR) Tobin, Jacqueline L. 1999 26286B 973.04 M649 Library States of Progress: Germans and Blacks in America over 300 years Randall Miller 1989 26428B 974.8004 B651 Library African Americans in Pennsylvania, above ground & underground; an illustrated guide Charles L. Blockson 2001 26471B 973.0496073 H198 Library The African American odyssey: an exhibition at the Library of Congress, February - May Debra Newman Ham 1998 26473B 394.261 K18 Library Kwanzaa: a celebration of family, community and culture Maulana Karenga 1998 26478B 973.7415 B515 Library Freedom's soldiers: the black military experience in the Civil War Ira Berlin 1998 26480B 973.099 W685 Library Jefferson's pillow: the founding fathers and the dilemma of black patriotism Roger Wilkins 2001 26504B 974.841 M128 Library Almost Forgotten: a glimpse at black history in York County, Pa James McClure 2002 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum 26507B 973.0496023 C743 Library Commemorating African American history in Pennsylvania Commission 2002 Four took freedom: the lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, 26587B 973.711 S838 Library and Blanche K. Bruce. Sterling, Philip 1967 26588B 973.711 F832 Library From slavery to Freedom: a History of American Negroes John Hope Franklin 1950 26767B 974.800496073 Library African Americans in Pennsylvania: shifting historical perspectives Joe William Trotter 1997 26801B 974.841 K27 Library The Wrong Car: The Death of Lillie Belle Allen William Keisling 2002 26835B 929.1 B967 Library Black roots: a beginner's guide to tracing the African American family tree Tony Burroughs 2001 26836B 929.2 W898 Library Finding a place called home: a guide to African American genealogy and historical Dee Parmer Woodtor 1999 27127B 974.841 K14 Library Story of Civil Rights in York, Pennsylvania, A 250 Year Interpretive History Jim Kalish 2000 Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the 27174B, 27875B 301.45 H468 Library colonial period to about 1820 Paul Heinegg 2001 27186B 973.0496073 K17 Library Black presence in the era of the American Revolution Sydney Caplan 1973 Present fears, past injustices: a study of the collective memory and racial realities of 27353B 974.841 M938 Library black and white citizens fo York, Pennsylvania Chelsea Suzanne Moyer 2004 27479B B M996 Library Sticks 'n stones: the Myers family in Levittown Daisy Myers 2005 27510B 929.2 D718 Library Dorsey and Related Families Rebecca Anstine 2005 27637B 974.842 M117 Library Reconstructing the past: puzzle of a lost community Deborah Sandoe McCauslin 2005 27874B 974.811 N249 Library Forging freedom: the formation of Philadelphia's Black Community 1720 - 1840 Gary B. Nash 1988 27877B 973.049 F499 Library Sources of the African-American past Roy Finenbine 1997 27882B 929.1 R796 Library Black Genesis: a Resource Book for African American Genealogy James M. Rose 2003 28501B 975.2 H997 Library Free African Americans of Maryland 1832 Jerry M. Hynson 2007 28509B 975.2 M613 Library Free Blacks in Harford, Somerset, and Talbot counties, Maryland, 1832 Mary K. Meyer, 2001 28640B B G862G Library Bridging Troubled Waters Voni Grimes 2008 Murder is the charge: the true story of Mayor Charlie Robertson and the York, 28973B 974.841 C842 Library Pennsylvania, race riots William C. Costopoulos 2004 United States Congress House Office of 29007B 328.7 B627 Library Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007 History and Preservation 2008 29376B 757.9 W394 Library Joshua Johnson : freeman and early American portrait painter Carolyn J. Weekley 1987 Journal of York County Heritage; The Peach Bottom Circuit: Recovering African 29630.007PD N/A Periodical American churches, graveyards, camp meetings and pastors Rebecca Anstine 2016 29748B 951.904 B786 Library Black soldier, white army: the 24th infantry regiment in Korea William T. Bowers 2005 NGS Magazine Vol. 37 No. 4, ix. Case study: Researching African American in the wake 29989.102PD N/A Periodical of the Civil War National Genealogical Society 2011 Sacred Land Regained: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and "The Massachusetts 30261.051PD
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