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The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter

15—HISTORY

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15—HISTORY

711

Aplin, Norita, Shirley Seaton, and Juanita Storey. The Negro American: his role, his quest. Clyde F. Varner, editor. Cleveland, Cleveland Public Schools, 1968. 246 p. map. E185.A56

Bibliography: p. 220-238.

712

Aptheker, Herbert, ed. A documentary history of the Negro people in the United States. Preface by W. E. B. DuBois. New York, Citadel Press [1951] xvi, 942 p. E185.A58

713

Aptheker, Herbert. Essays in the history of the American Negro. New York, International Publishers [1964] 216 p. E185.A6 1964

Bibliography: p. 211-216.

714

Aptheker, Herbert. To be free; studies in American Negro history. New York, International Publishers [1948] 256 p. E185.A63

"Reference notes": p. 193-248.

715

Bennett, Lerone. Before the Mayflower; a history of the Negro in America, 1619-1966. 3d ed. Chicago, Johnson Pub. Co., 1966. 449 p. illus., maps, ports. E185.B4 1966

Bibliography: p. [428]-442.

716

Bennett, Lerone. Black Power, U.S.A., the human side of Reconstruction, 1867-1877. Chicago, Johnson Pub. Co., 1967. 401 p. illus., ports. E185.2.B38

Bibliography: p. 390-393.

717

Bittle, William E., and Gilbert Geis. The longest way home; Chief Alfred C. Sam's back-to-Africa movement. With the research assistance of Donald F. Parker. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1964. 229 p. E448.B615

Includes bibliographical "Notes" (p. 213-221).

718

Bontemps, Arna W. Story of the Negro; illustrated by Raymond Lufkin. 2d ed., enl. New York, Knopf, 1955. 243 p. illus. E29.N3B6 1955

719

Boykin, James H. The Negro in North Carolina prior to 1861; an historical monograph. New York, Pageant Press [1958] 84 p. E185.93.N6B6

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 77-84).

720

Broderick, Francis L., and August Meier, eds. Negro protest thought in the twentieth century. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co. [1966, c1965] xliii, 444 p. (The American heritage series) E185.B87

721

Broom, Leonard, and Norval D. Glenn. Transformation of the Negro American. New York, Harper & Row [1965] 207 p. E185.6.B84

Bibliography: p. 193-199.

722

Brown, Ina C. The story of the American Negro. Decorations by Aaron Douglas. Rev. ed. New York, Friendship Press [1950] 212 p. illus. E185.6.B85 1950

Bibliography: p. 191-200.

723

Brown, William W. The rising son; or, The antecedents and advancement of the colored race. Boston, A. G. Brown, 1874. 552 p. port. E185.B884

"Representative men and women": p. 418-552.

724

Cain, Alfred E., ed. The winding road to freedom; a documentary survey of Negro experiences in America. Drawings: Horace Varela. Yonkers [N.Y.] Educational Heritage [1965] 384 p. illus., facsims., maps, ports. (Negro heritage library) [E185.C14] [TR: E184.6.C34]

Bibliography: p. 374-377.

725

Caughey, John W., John H. Franklin, and Ernest R. May. Land of the free; a history of the United States. Educational advisers: Richard M. Clowes [and] Alfred T. Clark, Jr. [Rev.] New York, Benziger Bros., 1966. 658 p. illus. (part col.), ports. E178.1.C36 1966

Includes bibliographies.

726

Chambers, Lucille A., ed. America's tenth man; a pictorial review of one-tenth of a nation, presenting the Negro contribution to American life today. Foreword by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. New York, Twayne Publishers [1957] 351 p. illus. E185.6.C46

727

Christian, Kathryn. The history of the Negro American; resource material. [Des Moines] Des Moines Public Schools, 1968. 43 p. E185.C52

Bibliography: p. 43.

728

Cincinnati. Public Schools. The Negro in American life [by] Mabel Morsbach. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1967] 273 p. illus., maps, ports. E185.C56 1967

Bibliography: p. 255-260.

729

Conrad, Earl. The invention of the Negro. New York, P. S. Eriksson [1967, c1966] 244 p. E185.C74

Bibliography: p. [232]-236.

730

Coulter, Ellis M. The Civil War and readjustment in Kentucky. Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 1966 [c1926] 468 p. maps. E509.C83 1966 [TR: Coulter, E. Merton]

Bibliography: p. 449-458.

731

Cromwell, John W. The Negro in American history; men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. Washington, American Negro Academy, 1914. 284 p. plates, ports. E185.C92

Bibliography: p. 257-262.

Reprint issued by Johnson Reprint Corp., 1969.

732

Davie, Maurice R. Negroes in American society. New York, Whittlesey House [1949] 542 p. maps. E185.6.D3

Includes "References."

733

Delany, Martin R. The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States. New York, Arno Press, 1968. 214 p. (The American Negro, his history and literature) E185.D33 1968

Reprint of the 1852 ed., with a new introduction.

734

Drotning, Phillip T. A guide to Negro history in America. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1968. xiv, 247 p. E185.D72

735

Eisenstadt, Murray. The Negro in American life. New York, Oxford Book Co. [1968] 380 p. (Oxford readings in social studies) E184.6.E35

Includes bibliographies.

736

Eppse, Merl R. A guide to the study of the Negro in American history. Nashville, National Publication Co. [1943] 181 p. E185.E69 1943

"First printing, June, 1937.... Third printing, revised and enlarged, September, 1943."

Bibliography: p. 180-181.

737

Eppse, Merl R. The Negro, too, in American history. Nashville, National Publication Co., 1949. xxii, 644 p. illus., maps, ports. E185.E696 1949

Bibliographical references included in introduction. "Reading material": p. 551-572.

738

Ferris, William H. The African abroad; or, His evolution in western civilization, tracing his development under Caucasian milieu. New Haven, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1913. 2 v. illus., plates, ports. E185.F39

739

Fishel, Leslie H., and Benjamin Quarles. The Negro American; a documentary history. Glenview, Ill., Scott, Foresman [1967] 536 p. illus., facsims., maps, ports. E185.F5

Bibliographical footnotes.

740

Foster, William Z. The Negro people in American history. New York, International Publishers [1954] 608 p. E185.F6

Bibliography: p. 567-592.

741

Franklin, John H. The free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1943. 271 p. maps, tables. E185.93.N6F7

Bibliography: p. [247]-258.

742

Franklin, John H. From slavery to freedom; a history of Negro Americans. 3d ed. [rev. and enl.] New York, Knopf, 1967. xxii, 686, xliii p. illus., ports. E185.F825 1967

"Bibliographical notes": p. [653]-686.

743

Franklin, John H. The militant South, 1800-1861. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956. 317 p. F213.F75

Includes bibliography.

744

Frazier, Edward Franklin. The Negro in the United States. Rev. ed. New York, Macmillan [1957] xxxiii, 769 p. diagrs., maps, tables. E185.F833 1957

Bibliography: p. 707-752.

745

Freidel, Frank B. The Negro and Puerto Rican in American history. Boston, Heath [1964] 27 p. illus., ports. E185.F85

746

Fuller, Thomas O. Pictorial history of the American Negro; a story of progress and development along social, political, economic, educational and spiritual lines. Memphis, Tenn., Pictorial History, 1933. xxiii, 375 p. illus. (part col.), maps, ports. E185.F97

Bibliography: p. 361-363.

747

Goldston, Robert C. The Negro revolution. New York, Macmillan [1968] 247 p. illus., ports. E185.G6

748

Greene, Lorenzo J. The Negro in colonial New England, 1620-1776. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press [1966, c1942] 404 p. E445.N5G7 1966

Reprint of a thesis, Columbia University, 1942.

Bibliography: p. [361]-384.

749

Harlan, Louis R. The Negro in American history. Washington, American Historical Association [1965] 29 p. (Service Center for Teachers of History. Publication no. 61) E175.1.H3

Bibliography: p. 26-29.

750

Hartshorn, William N., ed. An era of progress and promise, 1863-1910; the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation. George W. Penniman, associate editor. Boston, Priscilla Pub. Co., 1910. 576 p. illus., ports. E185.6.H33 [TR: Hartshorn, W. N.]

751

Hesseltine, William B., ed. The tragic conflict; the Civil War and Reconstruction. Selected and edited with introduction and notes by William B. Hesseltine. New York, G. Braziller, 1962. 528 p. (The American epochs series) E464.H4

Bibliography: p. [527]-528.

752

Hodges, Carl G., and Helene H. Levene, comps. Illinois Negro historymakers. Compiled with the assistance of Helen Horney, Julia Wanless and the Illinois State Historical Library staff. Chicago, Illinois Emancipation Centennial Commission, 1964. 91 p. illus., ports. E185.93.I2H6

753

Hughes, Langston, and Milton Meltzer. A pictorial history of the Negro in America. 3d rev. ed. New York, Crown Publishers [1968] 380 p. illus., maps, ports. E185.H83 1968

"Third revision by C. Eric Lincoln and Milton Meltzer."

Bibliography: p. 375.

754

Jordan, Winthrop D. White over black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press [1968] xx, 651 p. map. E185.J69

Bibliography: p. 610-614. Bibliographical footnotes.

755

Katz, William L., comp. Eyewitness; the Negro in American history. New York, Pitman Pub. Corp. [1967] xix, 554 p. illus., facsims., ports. E185.K28

756

Katz, William L. Teachers' guide to American Negro history. Chicago, Quadrangle Books [1968] 192 p. illus., ports. E185.K285

Includes bibliographies.

757

Lincoln, Charles Eric. The Negro pilgrimage in America. New York, Bantam Books [1967] 184 p. illus., facsims., ports. (Bantam pathfinder editions) E185.L47 [TR: Lincoln, C. Eric]

758

Little, Malcolm. Malcolm X on Afro-American history. [New York, Merit Publishers, 1967] 48 p. E185.L5

"Speech ... from ... a public meeting on January 24, 1965."

759

Litwack, Leon F. North of slavery; the Negro in the free States,

1790-1860. [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1961] 318 p. E185.9.L5

"Bibliographical essay": p. 280-303.

760

Logan, Rayford W., and Irving S. Cohen. The American Negro; old world background and new world experience. With the editorial assistance of Howard R. Anderson. Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1967] 278 p. illus., maps, ports. (Houghton Mifflin social studies program; history) E185.L84

Bibliography: p. 266-268.

761

Logan, Rayford W. The betrayal of the Negro, from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson. New enl. ed. New York, Collier Books [1965] 447 p. E185.61.L64 1965

"Originally published as The Negro in American Life and Thought: the Nadir, 1877-1901."

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 397-430).

762

Logan, Rayford W. The Negro in the United States, a brief history. Princeton, D. Van Nostrand [1957] 191 p. (An Anvil original, no. 19) E185.L85

Includes bibliography.

763

McPherson, James M. The Negro's Civil War; how American Negroes felt and acted during the war for the Union. New York, Pantheon Books [1965] 358 p. illus., ports. E540.N3M25

"A note on sources": p. [343]-347.

764

McPherson, James M. The struggle for equality; abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1964. 474 p. illus. E449.M176

"Bibliographical essay": p. 433-450.

765

Mazyck, Walter H. George Washington and the Negro. Washington, Associated Publishers [c1932] 180 p. E312.17.M38

766

Meier, August, and Elliott M. Rudwick. From plantation to ghetto; an interpretive history of American Negroes. New York, Hill and Wang [1966] 280 p. map. E185.M4

767

Meier, August. Negro thought in America, 1880-1915; racial ideologies in the age of Booker T. Washington. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press [1963] 336 p. E185.6.M5

"Bibliographical note": p. 280-282. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 283-316).

768

Meltzer, Milton. In their own words; a history of the American Negro. New York, Crowell [1964-67] 3 v. illus., facsims., ports. E185.M54

Includes bibliographies.

Contents.—[1.] 1619-1865.—[2.] 1865-1916.—[3.] 1916-1966.

769

Meltzer, Milton, and August Meier. Time of trial, time of hope; the Negro in America, 1919-1941. Illustrated by Moneta Barnett. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1966. 120 p. illus., ports. (Zenith books) E185.6.M54

770

The Negro in American history. [Mortimer J. Adler, general editor; Charles Van Doren, editor; George Ducas, executive editor] With an introduction by Saunders Redding. [Chicago] Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp. [1969] 3 v. illus. E185.N4

Contents.—1. Black Americans, 1928-1968.—2. A taste of freedom, 1854-1927.—3. Slaves and masters, 1567-1854.

771

New York (City) Board of Education. The Negro in American history. Albany, Reprinted by the University of the State of New York, Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development, 1965. 158 p. E185.N56

Bibliography: p. 151-158.

A curriculum guide which includes the African heritage.

772

Ottley, Roi. Black odyssey, the story of the Negro in America. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1948. 340 p. E185.O85

Bibliography: p. 315-322.

773

Pease, Frederick H. Found wanting. [Richmond, Va., 1968] 214 p. E185.P35

774

Pease, William H., and Jane H. Pease. Black Utopia; Negro communal experiments in America. Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1963. 204 p. E448.P36

Bibliography: p. [191]-200.

775

Pennington, James W. C. Text book of the origin and history, &c. &c. of the colored people. Hartford, L. Skinner, Printer, 1841. 96 p. E185.P41

Earliest attempt to write the history of the Negro.

776

Pinkney, Alphonso. Black Americans. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1959] xvii, 226 p. (Ethnic groups in American life series) E185.P5

Includes bibliographies.

777

Powell, Adam Clayton. Marching blacks, an interpretive history of the rise of the black common man. New York, Dial Press, 1945. 218 p. E185.6.P8

Bibliography: p. 215-218.

778

Quarles, Benjamin. Black abolitionists. New York, Oxford University Press [1969] 310 p. E449.Q17

"Note on bibliographical literature": p. 251-252. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 253-292).

779

Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the making of America. New York, Collier Books [1964] 288 p. (A Collier books original) E185.Q2

"AS 534."

Bibliography: p. 267-271.

780

Redding, Jay Saunders. The Negro. Washington, Potomac Books, 1967. 101 p. illus. (The U.S.A. survey series) E185.R42 [TR: Redding, J. Saunders]

Bibliography: p. 91-94.

781

Redding, Jay Saunders. On being Negro in America. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1951] 156 p. E185.61.R3 [TR: Redding, J. Saunders]

782

Redding, Jay Saunders. They came in chains; Americans from Africa. Philadelphia, Lippincott [1950] 320 p. (The Peoples of America series) E185.R4 [TR: Redding, J. Saunders]

Bibliography: p. 304-308.

783

Rogers, Joel A. Africa's gift to America; the Afro-American in the making and saving of the United States. New York [1959] 254 p. illus. E185.R74 [TR: Rogers, J. A.]

784

Rogers, Joel A. 100 amazing facts about the Negro, with complete proof; a short cut to the world history of the Negro. [24th rev. ed.] New York [1963] 58 p. illus., ports. HT1581.R62 1963

Stamped on t.p.: Distributed by Sportshelf, New Rochelle, N.Y.

785

Rose, Arnold M., ed. Assuring freedom to the free; a century of emancipation in the USA. With an introduction by Lyndon B. Johnson. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1964. 306 p. E185.6.R74

Bibliographical footnotes.

786

Sloan, Irving J. The American Negro; a chronology and fact book. 2d ed. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Oceana Publications, 1968. 112 p. E185.S57 1968

Bibliography: p. 71-[74].

787

Staudenraus, P. J. The African colonization movement, 1816-1865. New York, Columbia University Press, 1961. 323 p. E448.S78

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [252]-304). "Bibliographical essay": p. [305]-310.

788

Tannenbaum, Frank. Slave and citizen, the Negro in the Americas. New York, Knopf, 1947 [i.e. 1946] 128 p. double table. E29.N3T3

Bibliographical footnotes.

789

Thorpe, Earl E. The mind of the Negro; an intellectual history of Afro-Americans. Baton Rouge, La., Printed by Ortlieb Press [1961] 562 p. E185.82.T5

Bibliographical references included in "Footnotes" (p. [496]-548).

790

Thorpe, Earl E. Negro historians in the United States. Baton Rouge, La., Fraternal Press [1958] 188 p. E175.T5

Bibliography: p. 169-180.

791

Townsend, William H. Lincoln and the Bluegrass; slavery and civil war in Kentucky. [Lexington] University of Kentucky Press [1955] xiv, 392 p. illus., facsims., ports. E457.T78

"Bibliographical notes": p. [359]-385.

792

U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Select Subcommittee on Labor. To establish a National Commission on Negro History and Culture. Hearing, Ninetieth Congress, second session, on H.R. 12962. March 18, 1968. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968. 127 p. illus. KF27.E345 1968b

Bibliographical footnotes.

793

Van Deusen, John G. The black man in white America. Washington, Associated Publishers, 1938. 338 p. E185.6.V28

Bibliography: p. 301-318.

794

Voegeli, V. Jacque. Free but not equal; the Midwest and the Negro during the Civil War. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1967] 215 p. E185.9.V6

Includes bibliographical references.

795

Wade, Richard C., ed. The Negro in American life; selected readings, edited and annotated by Richard C. Wade with the editorial assistance of Howard R. Anderson. Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1965] 182 p. illus., ports. (Life in America series) E185.W17

Houghton Mifflin social studies program; history.

796

Wagandt, Charles L. The mighty revolution; Negro emancipation in Maryland, 1862-1864. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1964] 299 p. illus., maps. E512.W2

Bibliography: p. 269-284.

797

Washington, Booker T. The story of the Negro; the rise of the race from slavery. New York, P. Smith, 1940. 2 v. port. E185.W316 1940

"Published, November, 1909. Reprinted 1940."

Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents.—v. 1. pt. 1. The Negro in Africa. pt. 2. The Negro as a slave.—v. 2. pt. 3. The Negro as a freeman.

798

Wesley, Charles H. Neglected history; essays in Negro history by a college president: Charles H. Wesley. Wilberforce, Ohio, Central State College Press, 1965. 200 p. E185.W46

Bibliographical references included in "Historical notes" (p. 164-187).

799

Wesley, Charles H., ed. The Negro in the Americas. Washington, Graduate School, Howard University [1940] 86 p. (Public lectures of the Division of the Social Sciences of the Graduate School, Howard University. v. 1) H31.H65 v. 1 [E29.N3W5]

Contents.—The Negro in the British West Indies, by Eric Williams.—Notes on the Negro in the French West Indies, by L.T. Achille.—The Negro in Spanish America, by R. W. Logan.—The Negro in Brazil, by Richard Pattee.—The Haitian nation, by Dantes Bellegarde.—Race, migration and citizenship, by Ira De A. Reid.—The Negro in the United States and Canada, by C. H. Wesley.

800

Weyl, Nathaniel. The Negro in American civilization. Washington, Public Affairs Press [1960] 360 p. E185.W5

"References": p. 322-351.

801

Williams, George W. History of the Negro race in America. New York, Bergman Publishers [1968] 2 v. port. E185.W7 1968 [TR: Williams, George Washington]

Reprint of the 1883 ed.

Bibliographical footnotes.

802

Woodson, Carter G. Free Negro heads of families in the United States in 1830, together with a brief treatment of the free Negro. Washington, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History [c1925] lviii, 296 p. E185.W887

"Second of a series of documentary studies of the free Negro provided for by a grant ... from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller memorial in 1921."—Foreword.

Bibliographical footnotes.

803

Woodson, Carter G., ed. The mind of the Negro as reflected in letters written during the crisis, 1800-1860. New York, Russell & Russell [1969] xxxii, 672 p. E185.W8877 1969

Reprint of the 1926 ed.

Bibliographical footnotes.

804

Woodson, Carter G., and Charles H. Wesley. The Negro in our history. 10th ed., further rev. and enl. Washington, Associated Publishers [1962] 833 p. illus. E185.W89 1962

Bibliography: p. 775-803.

805

Woodson, Carter G. Negro makers of history. Washington, Associated Publishers [c1928] 362 p. illus., facsims., map, ports. E185.W895

"An adaptation of [the author's] The Negro in Our History to the capacity of children in the elementary schools."—Preface.

806

Woodward, Comer Vann. The burden of southern history. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [1960] 205 p. F209.W6 [TR: Woodward, C. Vann]

Essays.

807

Wynes, Charles E., ed. The Negro in the South since 1865; selected essays in American Negro history. University, University of Alabama Press [1965] 253 p. (Southern historical publications, no. 10) E185.6.W97

Bibliographical footnotes.

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