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Earle, Jonathan, and Malcolm Swanston. The Routledge Atlas of African American History (2000) excerpt and text search
Finkelman, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass (3 vol 2006)
Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred Moss, From Slavery to Freedom. A History of African Americans, (2001), standard textbook; first edition in 1947 excerpt and text search
Litwack, Leon, and August Meier. Black Leaders of the 19th Century. (1988)
- Franklin, John Hope, and August Meier, eds. Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century. (1982), short biographies by scholars.
Harris, William H. The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War. (1982). online edition
Hine, Darlene Clark, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Elsa Barkley Brown, eds. Black Women in America - An Historical Encyclopedia, (2005) excerpt and text search
Hine, Darlene Clark, et al. The African-American Odyssey (2 vol, 4th ed. 2007) textbook excerpt and text search vol 1
Holt, Thomas C. ed. Major Problems in African-American History: From Freedom to "Freedom Now," 1865-1990s (2000) reader in primary and secondary sources
Kelley, Robin D. G., and Earl Lewis, eds. To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans. (2000). 672pp; 10 long essays by leading scholars online edition
Lowery, Charles D. and John F. Marszalek, eds. Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present (1992) online edition
Mandle, Jay R. Not Slave, Not Free: The African American Economic Experience since the Civil War (1992) online edition
Painter, Nell Irvin. Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. (2006), 480 pp survey
Palmer, Colin A. ed. Encyclopedia Of African American Culture And History: The Black Experience In The Americas (6 vol. 2005)
Salzman, Jack, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, eds. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. (5 vol. 1996).
Smallwood, Arwin D The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times (1997)

Slave era pre 1860

Emancipation and Reconstruction Era: 1860-1890

see the longer Bibliography at Reconstruction

Boles, John B. Black Southerners, 1619–1869. (1983)
Butchart, Ronald E. Northern Schools, Southern Blacks, and Reconstruction: Freedmen's Education, 1862-1875 (1980) onlineedition
Cimbala, Paul A. and Trefousse, Hans L. (eds.) The Freedmen's Bureau: Reconstructing the American South After the Civil War. 2005.
Click, Patricia C. Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867 (2001) online edition
Crouch, Barry. The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans (1992)
Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. "The Freedmen's Bureau" (1901)] by leading black scholar online edition
Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (1935)
Durrill, Wayne K. "Political Legitimacy and Local Courts: 'Politicks at Such a Rage' in a Southern Community during Reconstruction" in Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70 #3, 2004 pp 577-617 online edition
Foner Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988), the standard history of Reconstruction.
Gutman, Herbert G. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 (1977)
Hahn, Steven. A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003), 1865-1950 ACLS E-book
Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (1985)
Kolchin, Peter. First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction 1972.
Litwack, Leon F. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. 1979,
Oubre, Claude F. Forty Acres and a Mule: The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Land Ownership 1978.
Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the Civil War'. (1953) by leading African American historian
Richardson, Joe M. Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 (1986).
Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (1978)
Span, Christopher M. "'I Must Learn Now or Not at All': Social and Cultural Capital in the Educational Initiatives of Formerly Enslaved African Americans in Mississippi, 1862-1869," The Journal of African American History, 2002 pp 196-222 online edition
Ransom, Roger L. Conflict and Compromise. (1989), econometric history
Oubre, Claude F. Forty Acres and a Mule. (1978).
Rodrigue, John C. "Labor Militancy and Black Grassroots Political Mobilization in the Louisiana Sugar Region, 1865-1868" in Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67 #1, 2001 pp 115-45; online edition also in JSTOR
Schwalm, Leslie A. "'Sweet Dreams of Freedom': Freedwomen's Reconstruction of Life and Labor in Lowcountry South Carolina," Journal of Women's History, Vol. 9 #1, 1997 pp 9-32 online edition
Williamson, Joel. After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina during Reconstruction, 1861-1877 1965.

Jim Crow Era: 1877-1954

Civil Rights Era: 1954 - present

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 (1989) excerpt and text search; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 (1999) excerpt and text search; At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (2007)
Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (1981)
Cashman, Sean Dennis. African-Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990 (1991)
Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V.P. Franklin. Sisters in the Struggle : African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement (2001) excerpt and text search
Eagles, Charles, ed. The Civil Rights Movement in America (1986), 200pp; 12 short essays by scholars and text search
Farley, Reynolds, and William H. Frey. "The Segregation of Whites from Blacks During the 1980s: Small Steps Toward a More Integrated Society," American Sociological Review, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 23-45 heavily statistical; in JSTOR
Fredrickson, George M. Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa (2nd ed. 1996)excerpt and text search
Garrow, David. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1989) excerpt and text search
Goldman, Peter. The Death and Life of Malcolm X, (2nd ed. 1979)
Graham, Hugh Davis. The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972 (1990)
Harris, Fredrick C. "Something Within: Religion as a Mobilizer of African-American Political Activism," The Journal of Politics, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 42-68 in JSTOR
Horne, Gerald. '"'Myth' and the Making of 'Malcolm X'", The American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 440-450 in JSTOR
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, (1975) excerpt and text search
Ling, Peter J. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2002) excerpt and text search
Meier, August, and Elliot Rudwick. CORE (1975).
Sitkoff, Harvard. The Struggle for Black Equality (1981).
Walton, Hanes, and Robert C. Smith. American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom (3rd ed 2005) excerpt and text search
Williams, Juan, and Julian Bond. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (1988) excerpt and text search
Wolters, Raymond. The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of Desegregation (1984) excerpt and text search

Historiography and teaching

Arnesen, Eric. "Up From Exclusion: Black and White Workers, Race, and the State of Labor History," Reviews in American History 26#1 March 1998, pp. 146-174 in Project Muse
Dagbovie, Pero. The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene (2007) excerpt and text search
Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo. "Exploring a Century of Historical Scholarship on Booker T. Washington." Journal of African American History 2007 92(2): 239-264. Issn: 1548-1867 Fulltext: Ebsco
Dorsey, Allison. "Black History Is American History: Teaching African American History in the Twenty-first Century." Journal of American History 2007 93(4): 1171-1177. Issn: 0021-8723 Fulltext: History Cooperative
Ernest, John. "Liberation Historiography: African-American Historians before the Civil War," American Literary History 14#3, Fall 2002, pp. 413-443 in Project Muse
Eyerman, Ron. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity (2002) argues that slavery emerged as a central element of the collective identity of African Americans in the post-Reconstruction era.
Fields, Barbara J. "Ideology and Race in American History," in J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson , eds., Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward (1982),
Franklin, John Hope. "Afro-American History: State of the Art," Journal of American History (June 1988): 163-173. in JSTOR
Goggin, Jacqueline. Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History (1993)
Hall, Stephen Gilroy. "'To Give a Faithful Account of the Race': History and Historical Consciousness in the African-American Community, 1827-1915." PhD dissertation, Ohio State U. 1999. 470 pp. DAI 2000 60(8): 3084-A. DA9941339 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Harris, Robert L., "Coming of Age: The Transformation of Afro-American Historiography," Journal of Negro History 57 (1982): 107-121. in JSTOR
Harris, Robert L., Jr. "The Flowering of Afro-American History." American Historical Review 1987 92(5): 1150-1161. Issn: 0002-8762 in Jstor
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, "African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 17 (1992): 251-274.
Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. Afro-American History: Past, Present, and Future. (1986).
Hine, Darlene Clark. Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History (1994) excerpt and text search
Hornsby Jr., Alton, et al. eds. A Companion to African American History. (2005). 580 pp. 31 long essays by experts covering African and diasporic connections in the context of the transatlantic slave trade; colonial and antebellum African, European, and indigenous relations; processes of cultural exchange; war and emancipation; post-emancipation community and institution building; intersections of class and gender; migration; and struggles for civil rights. ISBN 0-631-23066-1
McMillen, Neil R. "Up from Jim Crow: Black History Enters the Profession's Mainstream." Reviews in American History 1987 15(4): 543-549. Issn: 0048-7511 in Jstor
Meier, August, and Elliott Rudwick. Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980 (1986)
Nelson, Hasker. Listening For Our Past: A Lay Guide To African American Oral History Interviewing (2000) excerpt and text search
Quarles, Benjamin. Black Mosaic: Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography (1988).
Rabinowitz, Howard N. "More Than the Woodward Thesis: Assessing The Strange Career of Jim Crow", Journal of American History 75 (Dec. 1988): 842-56. in JSTOR
Reidy, Joseph P. "Slave Emancipation Through the Prism of Archives Records" (1997) online
Roper, John Herbert. U. B. Phillips: A Southern Mind (1984), on the white historian of slavery
Trotter, Joe W. "African-American History: Origins, Development, and Current State of the Field," OAH Magazine of History 7#4 Summer 1993 online edition
Wright, William D. Black History and Black Identity: A Call for a New Historiography (2002), proposes new racial and ethnic terminology and classifications for the study of black people and history. excerpt and text search

Primary Sources

Aptheker, Herbert, ed. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. (7 vol 1951-1994)
Berlin, Ira, ed. Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (1995)
Bracey, John H., and Manisha Sinha, eds. African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-First Century, (2 vol 2004)
Chafe, William Henry, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad, eds. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (2003) excerpt and text search
Finkenbine, Roy E. Sources of the African-American Past: Primary Sources in American History (2nd Edition) (2003)
Hampton, Henry, and Steve Fayer, eds. Voices of Freedom (1990), oral histories of civil rights movement
King, Martin Luther. I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, (1992) excerpt and text search
King, Martin Luther. Why We Can't Wait (1963; 2000)
King, Martin Luther. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948-March 1963 (2007) excerpt and text search
Levy, Peter B. Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement (1992) online edition
Rawick, George P. ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (19 vols., (1972) oral histories with ex-slaves conducted in 1930s by WPA
Sernett, Milton C. African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness (1999) excerpt and text search
Wright, Kai, ed. The African-American Archive: The History of the Black Experience Through Documents (2001)

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+==Surveys==
+* Earle, Jonathan, and Malcolm Swanston. ''The Routledge Atlas of African American History'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Routledge-African-American-History-Atlases/dp/0415921422/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208666779&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
+* Finkelman, Paul, ed. ''Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass'' (3 vol 2006)
+* Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred Moss, ''From Slavery to Freedom. A History of African Americans'', (2001), standard textbook; first edition in 1947 [http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Freedom-History-African-Americans/dp/0375406719/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208666779&sr=1-5 excerpt and text search]
+* Litwack, Leon, and August Meier. ''Black Leaders of the 19th Century.'' (1988)
+** Franklin, John Hope, and August Meier, eds. ''Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century.'' (1982), short biographies by scholars.
+* Harris, William H. ''The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War.'' (1982). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=16297018 online edition]
+* Hine, Darlene Clark, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Elsa Barkley Brown, eds.  ''Black Women in America - An Historical Encyclopedia'', (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Black-Women-America-Historical-Encyclopedia/dp/0253327741/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208666895&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
+* Hine, Darlene Clark, et al. ''The African-American Odyssey'' (2 vol, 4th ed. 2007) textbook [http://www.amazon.com/African-American-Odyssey-4th-Darlene-Hine/dp/0136150136/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208666930&sr=1-7 excerpt and text search vol 1]
+* Holt, Thomas C. ed. ''Major Problems in African-American History: From Freedom to "Freedom Now," 1865-1990s'' (2000) reader in primary and secondary sources
+*  Kelley, Robin D. G., and Earl Lewis, eds. ''To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans.'' (2000).  672pp; 10 long essays by leading scholars [http://www.questia.com/read/108611978?title=To%20Make%20Our%20World%20Anew%3a%20A%20History%20of%20African%20Americans online edition]
+* Lowery, Charles D.  and John F. Marszalek, eds. ''Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present'' (1992) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=71235565  online edition]
+* Mandle, Jay R. ''Not Slave, Not Free: The African American Economic Experience since the Civil War'' (1992)  [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=3099697 online edition]
+* Painter, Nell Irvin. ''Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present.'' (2006),  480 pp survey
+*  Palmer, Colin A. ed. ''Encyclopedia Of African American Culture And History: The Black Experience In The Americas'' (6 vol. 2005)
+* Salzman, Jack, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, eds. ''Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History.'' (5 vol. 1996).
+* Smallwood, Arwin D ''The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times'' (1997)
+==Slave era pre 1860==
+see also [[Slavery, U.S.]]
+* Berlin, Ira. ''Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America'' (2000) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00069 ACLS E-book]
+* Blassingame, John W. ''The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South''  (2nd ed. 1979) [http://www.amazon.com/Slave-Community-Plantation-Antebellum-South/dp/0195025636/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in excerpt and text search]
+* Genovese, Eugene. ''Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made'' (1974), highly influential study of slavery [http://www.amazon.com/Roll-Jordan-World-Slaves-Made/dp/0394716523/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208665810&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
+* Gomez, Michael. ''Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South'' (1998) 384pp  [http://www.amazon.com/Exchanging-Our-Country-Marks-Transformation/dp/0807846945/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208757341&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
+*  Horton, James Oliver. ''In hope of liberty: culture, community, and protest among northern free Blacks, 1700-1860'' (1998) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02341 ACLS E-book]
+* Kolchin, Peter. ''American Slavery, 1619-1877'' (wnd ed. 2003), a short survey [http://www.amazon.com/American-Slavery-1619-1877-Peter-Kolchin/dp/0809016303/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208759132&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
+*  Kulikoff, Allan. ''Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680 - 1800'' (1986)
+* Miller, Randall M., and John David Smith, eds. ''Dictionary of Afro-Amerian Slavery'' (1988)
+* Rothman, Adam. ''Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South.'' (2005). 282 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Slave-Country-American-Expansion-Origins/dp/0674024168/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208761333&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
+*  Sobel, Mechal. ''The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia'' (1987).
+* White, Deborah Gray. ''Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South,'' (2nd ed. 1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Arnt-Woman-Female-Slaves-Plantation/dp/0393314812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208715563&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
+* Wood, Peter H. ''Black majority: Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion'' (1975) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00338 ACLS E-book]
+==Emancipation and Reconstruction Era: 1860-1890==
+see the longer Bibliography at [[Reconstruction]]
+* Boles, John B. ''Black Southerners, 1619–1869.'' (1983)
+* Butchart, Ronald E. ''Northern Schools, Southern Blacks, and Reconstruction: Freedmen's Education, 1862-1875'' (1980) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=15101767  onlineedition]
+*Cimbala, Paul A. and Trefousse, Hans L. (eds.) ''The Freedmen's Bureau: Reconstructing the American South After the Civil War.'' 2005.
+* Click, Patricia C. ''Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867'' (2001) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=105840008 online edition]
+* Crouch, Barry. ''The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans'' (1992)
+* Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. "The Freedmen's Bureau"  (1901)] by leading black scholar [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABK2934-0087-50 online edition]
+* Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. ''Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880'' (1935)
+* Durrill, Wayne K. "Political Legitimacy and Local Courts: 'Politicks at Such a Rage' in a Southern Community during Reconstruction" in ''Journal of Southern History'', Vol. 70 #3, 2004 pp 577-617 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5006777413 online edition]
+* Foner Eric. ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877'' (1988), the standard history of Reconstruction.
+* Gutman, Herbert G. ''The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925'' (1977)
+* Hahn, Steven. ''A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration'' (2003), 1865-1950 [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03953 ACLS E-book]
+* Jones, Jacqueline. ''Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present'' (1985)
+* Kolchin, Peter. ''First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction'' 1972.
+* Litwack, Leon F. ''Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.'' 1979,
+* Oubre, Claude F. ''Forty Acres and a Mule: The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Land Ownership'' 1978.
+* Quarles, Benjamin. ''The Negro in the Civil War'''. (1953) by leading African American historian
+* Richardson, Joe M. ''Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890'' (1986).
+* Howard N.  Rabinowitz, ''Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890'' (1978)
+* Span, Christopher M. "'I Must Learn Now or Not at All': Social and Cultural Capital in the Educational Initiatives of Formerly Enslaved African Americans in Mississippi, 1862-1869," ''The Journal of African American History'', 2002  pp 196-222 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000605558 online edition]
+* Ransom, Roger L. ''Conflict and Compromise''. (1989), econometric history
+* Oubre, Claude F. ''Forty Acres and a Mule''. (1978).
+* Rodrigue, John C. "Labor Militancy and Black Grassroots Political Mobilization in the Louisiana Sugar Region, 1865-1868" in ''Journal of Southern History'', Vol. 67 #1, 2001 pp 115-45; [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002388829 online edition]  also in JSTOR
+* Schwalm, Leslie A. "'Sweet Dreams of Freedom': Freedwomen's Reconstruction of Life and Labor in Lowcountry South Carolina," ''Journal of Women's History,'' Vol. 9 #1, 1997 pp 9-32 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98499026 online edition]
+* Williamson, Joel. ''After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina during Reconstruction, 1861-1877'' 1965.
+==Jim Crow Era: 1877-1954==
+see also [[Jim Crow]]
+* Anderson, James D. ''The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935'' (1988) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=54406292  online edition]
+* Bayor, Ronald H. ''Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta'' (1996)
+* Bond, Horace Mann. “The Extent and Character of Separate Schools in the United States.” ''Journal of Negro Education'' 4(July 1935):321–27. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2984(193507)4%3A3%3C321%3ATEACOS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W in JSTOR]
+* Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, ed ''Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up from Slavery 100 Years Later'' (2003)
+* Bullock, Henry Allen. ''A History of Negro Education in the South: From 1619 to the Present'' (1967) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00625 ACLS E-book]
+* Cartwright, Joseph H. ''The Triumph of Jim Crow: Tennessee Race Relations in the 1880s'' (1976)
+* Dailey, Jane, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon, eds. ''Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights'' (2000), essays by scholars on impact of Jim Crow on black communities [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5002470890 online edition]
+* Gaines, Kevin. ''Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century'' (1996). [http://www.questia.com/library/book/uplifting-the-race-black-leadership-politics-and-culture-in-the-twentieth-century-by-kevin-k-gaines.jsp online edition]
+* Gatewood, Jr., Willard B. ''Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920'' (2000)
+* Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. ''Gender and Jim Crow Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920'' (1996) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=94820628 online edition]; also [http://www.amazon.com/Gender-Jim-Crow-Supremacy-1896-1920/dp/0807845965/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200610418&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
+* Gosnell, Harold F. ''Negro politicians: the rise of Negro politics in Chicago,'' (1935, 1967) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02846 ACLS E-book]
+* Hahn, Steven. ''A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration'' (2003), 1865-1950 [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03953 ACLS E-book]; also [http://www.amazon.com/Nation-under-Our-Feet-Political/dp/067401765X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208663397&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
+* Jones, Jacqueline. ''Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present'' (1985)
+* Harlan. Louis R.   ''Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1900'' (1972) the standard biography, vol 1
+* Harlan. Louis R.   ''Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee 1901-1915'' (1983), the standard scholarly biography vol 2 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=78995092  online edition vol 2]
+* Harlan. Louis R.    ''Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R. Harlan'' (1988) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=104404815  online edition]
+* Harlan. Louis R.   "The Secret Life of Booker T. Washington."  ''Journal of Southern History'' 37#3 (1971).  pp 393-416 Documents Booker T. Washington's secret financing and directing of litigation against segregation and disfranchisement. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2206948 in JSTOR]
+* McMurry, Linda O.  ''George Washington Carver, Scientist and Symbol'' (1982) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106358296 online edition]
+* Jones, Jacqueline. ''Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present'' (1985) [http://www.amazon.com/Labor-Love-Sorrow-Jacqueline-Jones/dp/0394745361/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208663256&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
+* Lemann, Nicholas. ''The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America'' (1992) [http://www.amazon.com/Promised-Land-Migration-Changed-America/dp/0679733477/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208723153&sr=8-14 excerpt and text search]
+* Lewis, David Levering. ''W. E. B. DuBois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race'' (2 vol 1993, 2000). [http://www.amazon.com/W-E-Bois-1868-1919-Biography/dp/0805035680/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208663291&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search vol 1], winner of Pulitzer Prize; ''W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/W-E-B-Du-Bois-Equality-1919-1963/dp/B0006Q1URA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208663291&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search vol 2]
+* Litwack, Leon F. ''Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow'' (1998) [http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Mind-Black-Southerners-Crow/dp/039452778X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200613319&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
+* Logan, Rayford. ''The Betrayal of the Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson'' (Originally Published as: ''The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir: 1877-1901'') (1970) [http://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Negro-Rutherford-Woodrow-Wilson/dp/0306807580/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208663219&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
+* McMillen, Neil R. ''Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. '' (1989). [http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Journey-Black-Mississippians-Crow/dp/025206156X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200610311&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
+* Meier, August.   ''Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915: Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington'' (1963),
+* Meier, August.  "Toward a Reinterpretation of Booker T. Washington."  23 ''Journal of Southern History'' 22#2 (1957) [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2955315 in JSTOR]
+* Myrdal, Gunnar. ''An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy'' (1944). Highly influential and detailed analysis of the Jim Crow system in operation. [http://www.amazon.com/American-Dilemma-Problem-Democracy-African-American/dp/1560008571/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200610342&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
+* Sterner, Richard. ''The Negro's share: a study of income, consumption, housing, and public assistance'' (1943), statistical analysis of 1930s [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02857 ACLS E-book]
+* Walker, Juliet E. K. ''Encyclopedia of African American Business History'' (1999) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101376721  online edition]
+* Woodward, C. Vann. ''The Strange Career of Jim Crow'' (3d ed., 1974), [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02029 in ACLS E-books]
+* Woodward, C. Vann. ''Origins of the New South, 1877-1913'' (1951) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00007 ACLS E-book]
+* Wintz, Cary D. ''African American Political Thought, 1890-1930: Washington, Du Bois, Garvey, and Randolph'' (1996) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=104912065  online edition]
+==Civil Rights Era: 1954 - present==
+* Branch, Taylor. ''Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63'' (1989) [http://www.amazon.com/Parting-Waters-America-Years-1954-63/dp/0671687425/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208722057&sr=1-31 excerpt and text search]; ''Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Pillar-Fire-America-Years-1963-65/dp/0684848090/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208722178&sr=1-5 excerpt and text search]; ''At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68'' (2007)
+* Carson, Clayborne. ''In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s'' (1981)
+* Cashman, Sean Dennis. ''African-Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990'' (1991)
+* Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V.P. Franklin. ''Sisters in the Struggle : African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Sisters-Struggle-African-American-Rights-Black-Movement/dp/0814716024/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208748749&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
+* Eagles, Charles, ed. ''The Civil Rights Movement in America'' (1986), 200pp; 12 short essays by scholars [http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Rights-Movement-America-Chancellor/dp/0878052984/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208730312&sr=1-12erpt and text search]
+* Farley, Reynolds,  and William H. Frey. "The Segregation of Whites from Blacks During the 1980s: Small Steps Toward a More Integrated Society," ''American Sociological Review'', Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 23-45 heavily statistical; [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2096131 in JSTOR]
+* Fredrickson, George M. ''Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa''  (2nd ed. 1996)[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195109783 excerpt and text search]
+*  Garrow, David. ''Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Southern Christian Leadership Conference'' (1989) [http://www.amazon.com/Bearing-Cross-Christian-Leadership-Conference/dp/B0002NPFWS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208723153&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
+* Goldman, Peter. ''The Death and Life of Malcolm X,'' (2nd ed. 1979)
+* Graham, Hugh Davis. ''The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972'' (1990)
+* Harris, Fredrick C. "Something Within: Religion as a Mobilizer of African-American Political Activism," ''The Journal of Politics,'' Vol. 56, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 42-68  [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2132345 in JSTOR]
+* Horne, Gerald. '"'Myth' and the Making of 'Malcolm X'", ''The American Historical Review,'' Vol. 98, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 440-450  [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2166843 in JSTOR]
+* Kluger, Richard.'' Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality,'' (1975) [http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Justice-Education-Americas-Struggle/dp/1400030617/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208730244&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
+*  Ling, Peter J. ''Martin Luther King, Jr.'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Luther-Routledge-Historical-Biographies/dp/0415216648/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208722988&sr=8-11 excerpt and text search]
+* Meier, August,  and Elliot Rudwick. ''CORE'' (1975).
+* Sitkoff, Harvard. ''The Struggle for Black Equality'' (1981).
+* Walton, Hanes, and Robert C. Smith. ''American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom'' (3rd ed 2005) [http://www.amazon.com/American-Politics-African-Universal-Freedom/dp/0321292375/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208748749&sr=8-16 excerpt and text search]
+* Williams, Juan, and Julian Bond. ''Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965'' (1988) [http://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Prize-Americas-1954-1965-American/dp/0140096531/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200610805&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
+* Wolters, Raymond. ''The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of Desegregation'' (1984) [http://www.amazon.com/Burden-Brown-Thirty-School-Desegregation/dp/0870497502/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208749113&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
+==Historiography and teaching==
+* Arnesen, Eric. "Up From Exclusion: Black and White Workers, Race, and the State of Labor History," ''Reviews in American History'' 26#1 March 1998, pp. 146-174 in [[Project Muse]]
+* Dagbovie, Pero. ''The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/History-Movement-Woodson-Lorenzo-Johnston/dp/0252074351/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208662932&sr=8-11 excerpt and text search]
+* Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo. "Exploring a Century of Historical Scholarship on Booker T. Washington." ''Journal of African American History'' 2007 92(2): 239-264. Issn: 1548-1867 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]]
+* Dorsey, Allison. "Black History Is American History: Teaching African American History in the Twenty-first Century." ''Journal of American History'' 2007 93(4): 1171-1177. Issn: 0021-8723 Fulltext: [[History Cooperative]]
+* Ernest, John. "Liberation Historiography: African-American Historians before the Civil War," ''American Literary History'' 14#3, Fall 2002, pp. 413-443 in [[Project Muse]]
+* Eyerman, Ron. ''Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity'' (2002) argues that slavery emerged as a central element of the collective identity of African Americans in the post-Reconstruction era.
+* Fields, Barbara J. "Ideology and Race in American History," in J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson , eds., ''Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward'' (1982),
+* Franklin, John Hope. "Afro-American History: State of the Art," ''Journal of American History'' (June 1988): 163-173. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1889663 in JSTOR]
+* Goggin, Jacqueline. ''Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History'' (1993)
+*  Hall, Stephen Gilroy.  "'To Give a Faithful Account of the Race': History and Historical Consciousness in the African-American Community, 1827-1915." PhD dissertation, Ohio State U. 1999. 470 pp.  DAI 2000 60(8): 3084-A. DA9941339  Fulltext: [[ProQuest Dissertations & Theses]]
+* Harris, Robert L., "Coming of Age: The Transformation of Afro-American Historiography," ''Journal of Negro History'' 57 (1982): 107-121. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2717569 in JSTOR]
+* Harris, Robert L., Jr. "The Flowering of Afro-American History." ''American Historical Review'' 1987 92(5): 1150-1161. Issn: 0002-8762 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1868489  in Jstor]
+* Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, "African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race," ''Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'' 17 (1992): 251-274.
+* Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. ''Afro-American History: Past, Present, and Future.'' (1986).
+* Hine, Darlene Clark. ''Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History'' (1994) [http://www.amazon.com/Hine-Sight-Re-Construction-American-Diaspora/dp/0253211247/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208662746&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
+* Hornsby Jr., Alton, et al. eds. ''A Companion to African American History.'' (2005). 580 pp. 31 long essays by experts covering African and diasporic connections in the context of the transatlantic slave trade; colonial and antebellum African, European, and indigenous relations; processes of cultural exchange; war and emancipation; post-emancipation community and institution building; intersections of class and gender; migration; and struggles for civil rights. ISBN 0-631-23066-1
+* McMillen, Neil R. "Up from Jim Crow: Black History Enters the Profession's Mainstream." ''Reviews in American History'' 1987 15(4): 543-549. Issn: 0048-7511 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2701928  in Jstor]
+* Meier, August,  and Elliott Rudwick. ''Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980'' (1986)
+* Nelson, Hasker. ''Listening For Our Past: A Lay Guide To African American Oral History Interviewing'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Listening-Our-Past-American-Interviewing/dp/0964732106/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208662776&sr=8-9 excerpt and text search]
+* Quarles, Benjamin. ''Black Mosaic: Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography'' (1988).
+* Rabinowitz, Howard N. "More Than the Woodward Thesis: Assessing The Strange Career of Jim Crow", ''Journal of American History'' 75 (Dec. 1988): 842-56. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1901533 in JSTOR]
+* Reidy, Joseph P. "Slave Emancipation Through the Prism of Archives Records" (1997)  [http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/summer/slave-emancipation.html online]
+* Roper, John Herbert. ''U. B. Phillips: A Southern Mind'' (1984), on the white historian of slavery
+* Trotter, Joe W. "African-American History: Origins, Development, and Current State of the Field," ''OAH Magazine of History'' 7#4 Summer 1993 [http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/africanamerican/trotter.html online edition]
+* Wright, William D. ''Black History and Black Identity: A Call for a New Historiography'' (2002), proposes new racial and ethnic terminology and classifications for the study of black people and history. [http://www.amazon.com/Black-History-Identity-Call-Historiography/dp/0275974421/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208661182&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
+==Primary Sources==
+* Aptheker, Herbert, ed. ''A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States.'' (7 vol 1951-1994)
+* Berlin, Ira, ed. ''Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War'' (1995)
+* Bracey, John H., and Manisha Sinha, eds. ''African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-First Century,'' (2 vol 2004)
+* Chafe, William Henry, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad, eds. ''Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Jim-Crow-Americans-Segregated/dp/1565847784/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200610418&sr=8-9 excerpt and text search]
+* Finkenbine, Roy E. ''Sources of the African-American Past: Primary Sources in American History'' (2nd Edition) (2003)
+* Hampton, Henry,  and Steve Fayer, eds. ''Voices of Freedom'' (1990), oral histories of civil rights movement
+* King, Martin Luther. ''I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World,'' (1992) [http://www.amazon.com/Have-Dream-Writings-Speeches-Anniversary/dp/0062505521/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208721937&sr=1-5 excerpt and text search]
+* King, Martin Luther. ''Why We Can't Wait'' (1963; 2000)
+* King, Martin Luther. ''The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948-March 1963'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Papers-Martin-Luther-King-Jr/dp/0520248740/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208722988&sr=8-9 excerpt and text search]
+*  Levy, Peter B. ''Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement'' (1992) [http://www.questia.com/read/27510341?title=Let%20Freedom%20Ring%3a%20A%20Documentary%20History%20of%20the%20Modern%20Civil%20Rights%20Movement online edition]
+* Rawick, George P. ed. ''The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography'' (19 vols., (1972) oral histories with ex-slaves conducted in 1930s by [[WPA]]
+* Sernett, Milton C. ''African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Afro-American-Religious-History-Documentary-Witness/dp/0822305941/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208662776&sr=8-6 excerpt and text search]
+*  Wright, Kai, ed. ''The African-American Archive: The History of the Black Experience Through Documents'' (2001)

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