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

34—REGIONAL STUDIES

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34—REGIONAL STUDIES

1592

Allen, James E. The Negro in New York. Foreword by Arthur Levitt. New York, Exposition Press [1964] 94 p. E185.93.N56A55

Bibliography: p. [93]-94.

1593

Aukofer, Frank A. City with a chance. Milwaukee, Bruce Pub. Co. [1968] 146 p. F589.M6A93

Milwaukee is the city discussed.

1594

Bartlett, Irving H. From slave to citizen; the story of the Negro in Rhode Island. Foreword by Benjamin Crocker Clough. Providence, Urban League of Greater Providence, 1954. 76 p. illus. E185.93.R4B3

"Bibliographical note": p. 74-76.

1595

Beasley, Delilah L. The Negro trail blazers of California; a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California. Los Angeles, 1919. 317 p. ports. F870.N38B3 1919b

Photo offset. San Francisco, R and E Research Associates, 1968.

Bibliography: p. [13-14].

1596

Burgess, Margaret E. Negro leadership in a southern city. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [1962] 231 p. illus. E185.61.B95

Bibliography: p. [219]-226.

1597

California. State Fair Employment Practice Commission. Negro Californians; population, employment, income, education. San Francisco, Division of Fair Employment Practices, 1963. 34 p. E185.93.C2A5

"Derived principally from the 1960 Census of population, the statistical tables were compiled by the California Division of Labor Statistics and Research."

1598

Chicago. University. Chicago Community Inventory. Chicago's Negro population; characteristics and trends. A report by the Chicago Community Inventory, University of Chicago, to the Office of the Housing and Redevelopment Coordinator and the Chicago Plan Commission. [Chicago] 1956. 109 p. maps. ICU

"This report was prepared by Otis Dudley Duncan, associate director, and Beverly Duncan, research assistant."

1599

Clark, Peter W. Delta shadows, "a pageant of Negro progress in New Orleans." Illustrated by Numa Joseph Roussève. [New Orleans] Graphic Arts Studios, 1942. 200 p. illus., ports. F379.N5C6

1600

Clarke, John H., ed. Harlem, a community in transition. New York, Citadel Press [c1964] 223 p. illus., ports. F128.68.H3C55

"Much of the material in this book is from the Summer 1963 (Volume III, no. 3) issue of Freedomways."

Bibliographical footnotes.

1601

Claspy, Everett. The Negro in southwestern Michigan; Negroes in the North in a rural environment. Dowagiac, Mich., 1967. 112 p. E185.93.M5C55

Includes bibliographical references.

1602

Crum, Mason. Gullah; Negro life in the Carolina Sea Islands. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1940. xv, 351 p. plates. (Duke University publications) E185.93.S7C85

Bibliography: p. [345]-351.

1603

Dabney, Wendell P. Cincinnati's colored citizens; historical, sociological and biographical. Cincinnati, Dabney Pub. Co. [c1926] 440 p. illus., ports. F499.C5D12

1604

Daniels, John. In freedom's birthplace; a study of the Boston Negroes. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914. 496 p. F73.9.N4D2

1605

De Jong, Gordon F., and George A. Hillery. Kentucky's Negro population in 1960. Lexington, University of Kentucky, Agricultural Experiment Station, Dept. of Rural Sociology, 1965. 32 p. illus., map. ([Kentucky. Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington] Bulletin 704) E185.93.K3D4

Bibliographical footnotes.

1606

Detroit Urban League. Research Dept. A profile of the Detroit Negro, 1955-1964. [Detroit] 1965. 62 p. illus., maps. F574.D4D59

Bibliography: p. 62.

1607

Drake, St. Clair, and Horace R. Cayton. Black metropolis; a study of Negro life in a northern city. Introduction by Richard Wright. Introduction to Torchbook ed. by Everett C. Hughes. [Rev. and enl. ed.] New York, Harper & Row [1962] 2 v. illus. (Harper torchbooks, TB1086-1087. The Academy library) F548.9.N3D68 1962

Bibliographical references included in "Notes and documentation" (p. 783-792). "A list of selected books dealing with the American Negro": p. 793-796. "Suggestions for collateral reading": p. 797-798.

1608

DuBois, William E. B. The Philadelphia Negro; a social study. Together with a special report on domestic service, by Isabel Eaton. New York, B. Blom [1967] xx, 520 p. illus., 2 fold. col. plans. (Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law, no. 14) F158.9.N3D8 1967

Contents.—The Philadelphia Negro.—Appendixes. A. Schedules used in the house-to-house inquiry. B. Legislation, etc., of Pennsylvania in regard to the Negro. C. Bibliography (p. 419-423). Special report on Negro domestic service in the seventh ward, Philadelphia, by I. Eaton.

1608a

Ehle, John. The free men. New York, Harper & Row [1965] 340 p. illus., ports. F264.C38E4

A portrait of a moderate southern community (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) experiencing an effort at integration in the years 1963-64.

1609

Gay, William T. Montgomery, Alabama, a city in crisis. New York, Exposition Press [1957] 117 p. F334.M7G3

1610

Green, Constance M. The secret city; a history of race relations in the Nation's Capital. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1967. xv, 389 p. illus., ports. E185.93.D6G7

"Bibliographical note": p. 339-348. Bibliography: p. 349-361.

1611

Handlin, Oscar. The newcomers: Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a changing metropolis. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1959. 171 p. illus. (New York metropolitan region study) F128.9.A1H3

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [147]-164).

New York City is the metropolis under study.

1612

Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited, New York. Youth in the ghetto; a study of the consequences of powerlessness and a blueprint for change. New York, 1964. xxi, 614 p. illus., maps, tables. HN80.N5H3

Bibliographical footnotes.

1613

Hesslink, George K. Black neighbors; Negroes in a northern rural community. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1968] xvii, 190 p. maps. F572.C3H4

Bibliography: p. 185-190.

Cass County, Michigan, is the area under study.

1613a

Johnson, Charles S. Shadow of the plantation. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1934] xxiv, 214 p. diagr., plates. E185.93.A3J6

Macon County, Alabama, was the area chosen for this survey.

1614

Johnson, Haynes B. Dusk at the mountain; the Negro, the Nation, and the Capital; a report on problems and progress. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1963. 273 p. E185.93.D6J56

Bibliography: p. [260]-266.

1615

Johnson, James W. Black Manhattan. New York, Arno Press, 1968 [c1930] 284, xxxiv p. illus., plans, ports. (The American Negro, his history and literature) F128.9.N3J67 1968

1616

Johnson, William. William Johnson's Natchez; the ante-bellum diary of a free Negro. Edited by William Ransom Hogan and Edwin Adams Davis. [Baton Rouge] Louisiana State University Press [1951] 812 p. illus., facsims. (Source studies in Southern history, no. 1) E185.97.J697A3

1617

Joiner, William A. A half century of freedom of the Negro in Ohio. Xenia, Ohio, Press of Smith Adv. Co. [1915?] 134 p. illus., ports. E185.93.O2J6

Cover title: The Ohio Book for the Lincoln Jubilee.

"College song, Dear old Wilberforce [by] W.A. Joiner [and] F. J. Work" (close score): p. 134.

1618

Langhorne, Orra H. M. G. Southern sketches from Virginia, 1881-1901. Edited by Charles E. Wynes. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia [1964] xxxix, 145 p. illus., ports. F231.L3

"The writings of Orra Langhorne": p. 139-140. Bibliographical footnotes.

1618a

Lee, Frank F. Negro and white in Connecticut Town. New York, Bookman Associates [1961] 207 p. map. E185.93.C7L4

"Based upon the writer's unpublished doctoral dissertation ... Yale University, 1953."

"Annotated bibliography": p. 179-199.

1618b

Lee, George W. Beale Street, where the blues began. Foreword by W. C. Handy. New York, R. O. Ballou [c1934] 296 p. ports. F444.M5L4

1619

Liebow, Elliot. Tally's corner; a study of Negro streetcorner men. With a foreword by Hylan Lewis. Boston, Little, Brown [1967] xvii, 260 p. E185.93.D6L5 1967

Revision of thesis, Catholic University of America.

Bibliography: p. [257]-260.

Washington, D.C., is the locale.

1620

Logan, Frenise A. The Negro in North Carolina, 1876-1894. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [1964] 244 p. E185.93.N6L6

Bibliography: p. [221]-233.

1621

Lyda, John W. The Negro in the history of Indiana. [Terre Haute? Ind., 1953] 136 p. E185.93.I4L9

Bibliography: p. 131-136.

1621a

McCord, William M. Mississippi: the long hot summer. New York, Norton [1965] 222 p. E185.93.M6M32

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 211-215).

The violence of the summer of 1964 as related and interpreted by a sociologist in terms of his own participation.

1622

Maryland. Commission on Interracial Problems and Relations. An American city in transition; the Baltimore community self-survey of inter-group relations. [Sponsored by] Maryland Commission on Interracial Problems and Relations [and] Baltimore Commission on Human Relations. [Baltimore] 1955. 264 p. illus., map. F189.B1M25

1623

Michigan. Freedmen's Progress Commission. Michigan manual of freedmen's progress. Compiled by Francis H. Warren. Detroit. 1915. [Detroit] J. M. Green [1968] 371, 34 p. illus., ports. E185.93.M5A43 1968

1624

Minnesota. Governor's Human Rights Commission. The Negro and his home in Minnesota; a report to Governor Luther W. Youngdahl of Minnesota by the Governor's Interracial Commission. [St. Paul] 1947. 77 p. illus. E185.93.M55A5 1947

"Third of a series of reports ... on various racial situations."

1625

Moore, Geraldine H. Behind the ebony mask. [Birmingham, Ala.] Southern University Press, 1961. 220 p. illus. F334.B6M57

On the Negro in Birmingham, Alabama.

1626

National Urban League. Community Relations Project. A study of the social and economic conditions of the Negro population of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, conducted for the Oklahoma City Council of Social Welfare by the National Urban League as part of its Community Relations Project, Dept. of Research, June-July, 1945. [Oklahoma City? 1945?] 91 p. F704.O41N3

1627

National Urban League. Dept. of Research and Community Projects. The Negro community of Baltimore; a summary report of a social study conducted for the Baltimore Urban League through the Dept. of Research, National Urban League, by Ira De A. Reid. Drawings by Wilmer Jennings. Baltimore, 1935. 46 p. diagrs. F189.B1N24

1628

The Negro in Milwaukee; a historical survey. [Milwaukee, Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1968] 32 p. illus., ports. F589.M6N48

Contents.—The railway porter who wanted to vote, by F. I. Olson.—Negroes in Milwaukee, by W. T. Green.—An incident of early Milwaukee law enforcement, by W. J. Vollmar.—Negro recognition in early Milwaukee, by C. V. Salomon.—Thirty years a slave, by L. Hughes.—Landmark civil rights decision in Wisconsin, by H. H. Anderson.—Milwaukee Negroes elected to public office.

1629

New York (City) Interdepartmental Neighborhood Service Center. The poor of Harlem: social functioning in the underclass; a report to the Welfare Administration by Joan Gordon, with the assistance of Carolyn Atkinson [and others]. New York, 1965, c1966. 167 p. HN80.N5A49

"Welfare Administration project 105."

1630

O'Reilly, Charles T. The inner core——north; a study of Milwaukee's Negro community. [Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin] 1963. 96 p. illus., maps. F589.M6O685

"A project of the School of Social Work, the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee for the Ford urban program, the University of Wisconsin Extension Division."

Includes bibliographies.

1631

Osofsky, Gilbert. Harlem; the making of a ghetto; Negro New York, 1890-1930. New York, Harper & Row [1966] 259 p. illus., facsims., ports. F128.9.N3O73

Includes bibliographies.

1632

Ottley, Roi, and William J. Weatherby. The Negro in New York; an informal social history. New York, New York Public Library, 1967. xix, 328 p. map. F128.9.N3O74

"Edited from manuscripts in the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, the New York Public Library ... originally prepared by the Federal Writers Project under the working title, 'Harlem—the Negroes of New York (an informal social history).'"

Bibliography: p. 297-312.

1633

Ottley, Roi. New world a-coming. New York, Arno Press, 1968. 364 p. illus. (The American Negro, his history and literature) F128.9.N3O75 1968

Reprint of the 1943 ed.

Bibliography: p. [348]-354.

The Negro in New York City.

1633a

Patterson, Caleb P. The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865. Austin, Tex., University [1922] 213 p. (University of Texas bulletin. no. 2205: Feb. 1, 1922) E445.T3P2

Bibliography: p. 202-209.

1634

Posey, Thomas E. The Negro citizen of West Virginia. Institute, W. Va., Press of West Virginia State College [1934] 119 p. diagrs., plates, ports. E185.93.W5P6

Bibliography: p. [110]-112.

1634a

Quillin, Frank U. The color line in Ohio; a history of race prejudice in a typical northern State. Ann Arbor, Mich., G. Wahr, 1913. xvi, 178 p. maps. (University of Michigan historical studies. [3]) E185.93.O2Q62

Published also as thesis (Ph.D.), University of Michigan, 1910.

Bibliography: p. [167]-171.

1635

Record, Wilson. Minority groups and intergroup relations in the San Francisco Bay area. [Berkeley, Calif.] 1963. 48 p. F868.S156R4

At head of title: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

The Institute of Governmental Studies presents this monograph as part of its series of Franklin K. Lane papers.

1636

Rose, Willie L. N. Rehearsal for Reconstruction; the Port Royal experiment. With an introduction by C. Vann Woodward. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1964] xviii, 442 p. illus., fold. map, ports. F277.B3R6

"Notes on sources": p. 409-433.

Concerns Sea Islands, South Carolina.

1637

Roussève, Charles B. The Negro in Louisiana; aspects of his history and his literature. New Orleans, Xavier University Press, 1937. xvii, 212 p. illus., diagrs., music, plates. E185.93.L6R6

"This work, prepared in 1935 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts, makes its appearance ... substantially as it was originally written, save for ... several minor alterations and the addition of a few details."—p. vii.

Bibliography: p. 193-201.

1638

Russell, John H. The free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1913. 194 p. (Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, series 31, no. 3) H31.J6 E185.93.V8R9

Thesis (Ph.D.)—Johns Hopkins University, 1913.

Bibliography: p. 178-186.

1639

Scheiner, Seth M. Negro mecca; a history of the Negro in New York City, 1865-1920. [New York] New York University Press, 1965. 246 p. F128.9.N3S3

Bibliography: p. 226-242.

1640

Sexton, Patricia C. Spanish Harlem; an anatomy of poverty. New York, Harper & Row [1965] 208 p. map. [F128.9.F8S48] [TR: F128.9.P8S48]

Includes bibliographical references.

1641

Silver, James W. Mississippi: the closed society. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1964] xxii, 250 p. facsim., map. F345.S5

Bibliographical footnotes.

1642

Spangler, Earl. The Negro in Minnesota. With an introduction by Carl T. Rowan. Minneapolis, T. S. Denison [1961] 215 p. E185.93.M55S7

Bibliography: p. 186-213.

1643

Spear, Allan H. Black Chicago; the making of a Negro ghetto, 1890-1920. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1967] xvii, 254 p. illus., col. maps, ports. F548.9.N3S65

Bibliographical footnotes.

1644

Steward, William, and Theophilus G. Steward. Gouldtown, a very remarkable settlement of ancient date; studies of some sturdy examples of the simple life, together with sketches of early colonial history of Cumberland County and southern New Jersey and some early genealogical records. Philadelphia, Press of J. B. Lippincott Co., 1913. 237 p. plates, ports. F144.G69S8

Gouldtown was one of the earliest all-Negro settlements.

1645

Tate, Thaddeus W. The Negro in eighteenth-century Williamsburg. Williamsburg, Va., Colonial Williamsburg; distributed by the University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville [c1965] xiv, 256 p. (Williamsburg research studies) F234.W7T3

Bibliography: p. [237]-246.

1646

Thornbrough, Emma L. The Negro in Indiana; a study of a minority. [Indianapolis] Indiana Historical Bureau, 1957. 412 p. (Indiana historical collections, v. 37) F535.N4T5

Cover title and half-title: The Negro in Indiana Before 1900.

Bibliographical footnotes.

1647

Tindall, George B. South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1952. 336 p. illus., ports. E185.93.S7T5

Bibliography: p. 311-326.

1648

United Community Services of Metropolitan Boston. Black and white in Boston; a report based on the Community Research Project. [By] Donald D. Dobbin, Norma J. Emond [and] Janine G. O'Grady. [Boston, Research Dept., United Community Services of Metropolitan Boston] 1968. 44 p. map. F73.9.N4U5

1648a

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Hearings before the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Hearings held in Detroit, Michigan, December 14, 1960 [and] December 15, 1960. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1961. 511 p. illus., fold. maps. E185.93.M5A5

1648b

Warner, Robert A. New Haven Negroes, a social history. New Haven, Published for the Institute of Human Relations by Yale University Press, 1940. xiv, 309 p. facsim., maps, plates, port. F104.N6W27

Bibliographical footnotes.

1649

Washington, Nathaniel J. Historical development of the Negro in Oklahoma. Tulsa, Okla., Dexter Pub. Co. [1948] 71 p. illus., maps. E185.93.O4W3

Bibliography: p. 69-71.

1650

Waynick, Capus M., John C. Brooks, and Elsie W. Pitts, eds. North Carolina and the Negro. Raleigh, North Carolina Mayors' Co-operating Committee, 1964. xvii, 309 p. illus. (part col.), maps, ports. (part col.) E185.93.N6W3

Bibliography: p. 271-287.

1651

Whaley, Marcellus S. The old types pass; Gullah sketches of the Carolina Sea Islands. Illustrated by Edna Reed Whaley. Boston, Christopher Pub. House [c1925] 192 p. music, plates. E185.93.S7W6

1652

Wharton, Vernon L. The Negro in Mississippi, 1865-1890. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1947. 298 p. (The James Sprunt studies in history and political science, v. 28) F251.J28 v. 28

Bibliography: p. [277]-292.

1653

Wightman, Orrin S. Early days of coastal Georgia. Photographs by Orrin Sage Wightman. Story by Margaret Davis Cate. St. Simons Island, Ga., Fort Frederica Association [1955] 235 p. illus., maps. F286.W6

1654

Wright, James M. The free Negro in Maryland, 1634-1860. New York, Columbia University, 1921. 362 p. (Studies in history, economics and public law, v. 97, no. 3; whole no. 222) H31.C7 v. 97 [E185.W95]

Bibliography: p. 348-362.

1655

Wynes, Charles E. Race relations in Virginia, 1870-1902. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1961. 164 p. E185.93.V8W9

Bibliography: p. 151-160.

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