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Black History, 1877-1954 THE BRITISH LIBRARY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND LIFE: 1877-1954 A SELECTIVE GUIDE TO MATERIALS IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY BY JEAN KEMBLE THE ECCLES CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND LIFE, 1877-1954 Contents Introduction Agriculture Art & Photography Civil Rights Crime and Punishment Demography Du Bois, W.E.B. Economics Education Entertainment – Film, Radio, Theatre Family Folklore Freemasonry Marcus Garvey General Great Depression/New Deal Great Migration Health & Medicine Historiography Ku Klux Klan Law Leadership Libraries Lynching & Violence Military NAACP National Urban League Philanthropy Politics Press Race Relations & ‘The Negro Question’ Religion Riots & Protests Sport Transport Tuskegee Institute Urban Life Booker T. Washington West Women Work & Unions World Wars States Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Bibliographies/Reference works Introduction Since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, African American history, once the preserve of a few dedicated individuals, has experienced an expansion unprecedented in historical research. The effect of this on-going, scholarly ‘explosion’, in which both black and white historians are actively engaged, is both manifold and wide-reaching for in illuminating myriad aspects of African American life and culture from the colonial period to the very recent past it is simultaneously, and inevitably, enriching our understanding of the entire fabric of American social, economic, cultural and political history. Perhaps not surprisingly the depth and breadth of coverage received by particular topics and time-periods has so far been uneven. Slavery and the civil rights movement have benefited from enormous attention; indeed one historian notes that in the 1970s the historiography of the former witnessed ‘something like an earthquake’. Standing in contrast, however, the period between Reconstruction and Brown v Board of Education remains relatively underdeveloped. This guide is intended as a bibliographical tool for all those seeking an introduction to this period. With the notable exceptions of music and literature, it addresses most aspects of African American life and history: education, politics, race relations, religion, women and work are particularly well covered. The guide includes both periodicals and monographs; the shelf-mark for the latter is included in parentheses at the end of each citation. The majority of works are housed at the British Library at St Pancras, London. A shelf-mark prefaced by ‘DSC’ indicates that the work is held at Boston Spa but may be read in London. AGRICULTURE ABRAMOWITZ, Jack. “The Negro in the Agrarian Revolt,” Agricultural History 24 (1950): 89-95. BOSTON, Thomas D. “Capitalism and Afro-American Land Tenancy,” Science and Society 46:4 (1982-83): 445-460. BROWN, Minnie Miller. “Black Women in American Agriculture,” Agricultural History 50 (January 1976): 247, 251-52. COHEN, William. “Negro Involuntary Servitude in the South, 1865-1940: a Preliminary Analysis,” Journal of Southern History 42 (1976): 31-60. COLEMAN, A. Lee and Larry D. Hall. “Black Farm Operators and Farm Populations, 1900-1970: Alabama and Kentucky,” Phylon 40:4 (1979): 387-402. COMAN, Katherine. “The Negro as Peasant Farmer,” American Statistical Association Publications 9 (June 1904): 39-54. CROSBY, Earl W. “The Struggle for Existence: the Institutionalization of the Black County Agent System,” Agricultural History 60:2 (1986): 123-136. DANIEL, Pete. “The Metamorphosis of Slavery, 1865-1900,” Journal of American History 66 (1979): 88-99. ------------ The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969. London; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973. (X.708/10108) DAVIS, Ronald L.F. Good and Faithful Labor: from Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District, 1860-1890. Westport; London: Greenwood, 1982. (X.529/54591) DILLINGHAM, Pitt. “Land Tenure among the Negroes,” Yale Review 5 (Aug. 1896): 190-206. EDWARDS, Thomas J. “The Tenant System and some Changes since Emancipation,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 49 (Sept. 1913): 38- 46. FLIGSTEIN, Neil. “The Transformation of Southern Agriculture and the Migration of Blacks and Whites, 1930-1940,” International Migration Review 17:2 (1983): 268- 290. FRISSELL, N.B. “Southern Agriculture and the Negro Farmer,” American Statistical Association Publications 13 (March 1912): 65-70. HIGGS, Robert. “Did Southern Farmers Discriminate?” Agricultural History 46 (April 1972): 325-328. ------------ “Did Southern Farmers Discriminate--Interpretive Problems and Further Evidence,” Agricultural History 49 (April 1975): 445-447. ------------ “Race, Tenure and Resource Allocation in Southern Agriculture, 1910,” Journal of Economic History 33 (March 1973): 149-169. HOLMES, George K. “The Peons of the South,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 4 (Sept. 1893): 65-74. HOLMES, William F. “The Arkansas Cotton Pickers Strike of 1891 and the Demise of the Colored Farmers’ Alliance,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 32 (1973): 107-19. ------------ “The Demise of the Colored Farmers Alliance,” Journal of Southern History 41 (1975): 187-200. JONES, Allen. “Improving Rural Life for Blacks: the Tuskegee Negro Farmers Conference, 1892-1915,” Agricultural History 65:2 (1991): 105-114. ------------ “Thomas M. Campbell: Black Agricultural Leader of the New South,” Agricultural History 53:1 (1979): 42-59. ------------ “Voices for Improving Rural Life: Alabama’s Black Agricultural Press, 1890-1965,” Agricultural History 58:3 (1984): 209-220. KIRBY, Jack Temple. “Black and White in the Rural South, 1915-1954,” Agricultural History 58:3 (1984): 411-422. KREMM, Thomas W. and Diane Neal. “Challenges to Subordination: Organized Black Agricultural Protest in South Carolina, 1886-1895,” South Atlantic Quarterly 77 (1978): 98-112. LOGAN, Frenise A. “Factors Influencing the Efficiency of Negro Farm Laborers in Post-Reconstruction North Carolina,” Agricultural History 33 (Oct. 1959): 185-189. MANDLE, Jay R. “Continuity and Change: the Use of Black Labor after the Civil War,” Journal of Black Studies 21:4 (1991): 414-427. ------------ “The Re-Establishment of the Plantation Economy in the South, 1865- 1910,” Review of Black Political Economy 3 (Winter 1973): 68-88. ------------ “Sharecropping in the Rural South: a Case of Uneven Development in Agriculture,” Rural Sociology 49:3 (1984): 412-429. MENDENHALL, Marjorie Stratford. “The Rise of Southern Tenancy,” Yale Review 27 (Sept. 1937): 110-129. MEREDITH, H.L. “Agrarian Socialism and the Negro in Oklahoma, 1900-1918,” Labor History 11 (Summer 1970): 277-284. MILLER, Floyd J. “Black Protest and White Leadership: a Note on the Colored Farmers Alliance,” Phylon 33 (1972): 169-174. NIEMAN, Donald G., ed. From Slavery to Sharecropping: White Land and Black Labor in the Rural South, 1865-1900. New York; London: Garland, 1994. (YC.1994.b.3670) POPE, Christie Farnham. “Southern Homesteads for Negroes,” Agricultural History 44 (April 1970): 201-212. REID, Joseph D. “Sharecropping as an Understandable Market Response: the Post- Bellum South,” Journal of Economic History 33 (March 1973): 106-130. RIDDLE, Wesley Allen. “The Origins of Black Sharecropping,” Mississippi Quarterly 49:1 (1995-96): 53-71. SEAGRAVE, Charles E. “The Southern Negro Agricultural Worker: 1850-1870,” Journal of Economic History 31 (March 1971): 279-280. SEALS, R. Grant. “The Formation of Agricultural and Rural Development Policy with Emphasis on African Americans: II the Hatch-George and Smith-Lever Acts,” Agricultural History 65:2 (1991): 12-34. SMITH, R.L. “The Elevation of Negro Farm Life,” Independent 52 (Aug. 30, 1900): 2103-2106. SPRIGGS, William Edward. “The Virginia Farmers Alliance: a Case Study of Race and Class Identity,” Journal of Negro History 64:3 (1979): 191-204. STINE, Linda France. “Social Inequality and Turn-of-the-Century Farmsteads: Issues of Class, Status, Ethnicity and Race,” Historical Archaeology 24:4 (1990): 37-49. STONE, Alfred Holt. “Negro Labor and the Boll Weevil,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 33 (March 1909): 167-174. ------------- “The Negro and Agricultural Development,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 35 (Jan. 1910): 8-15. STRICKLAND, Arvarh E. “The Strange Affair of the Boll Weevil: the Pest as Liberator,” Agricultural History 68:2 (1994): 157-168. UNITED STATES – Departments of State and Public Institutions. Better Homes for Negro Farm Families: a Handbook for Teachers. Washington, 1947. (A.S.205/36) WIENER, Jonathan M. “Planter Persistence and Social Change, 1850-1970,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 7 (1976): 235-60. WILLEY, D. Allen. “The Negro and the Soil,” Arena 23 (May 1900): 553-560. WOODRUFF, Nan Elizabeth. “Mississippi Delta Planters and Debates over Mechanization, Labor and Civil Rights in the 1940s,” Journal of Southern History 60: 2 (1994): 263-284. WOODSON, Carter Godwin. The Rural Negro. Washington, 1930. (Ac.8444/4) ZEICHNER, Oscar. “The Legal Status of the Agricultural Laborer in the South,” Political Science Quarterly 55 (1940): 424-28. ------------ “The Transition from Slave to Free Agricultural Labor in the Southern States,” Agricultural History
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