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Books on Black Life

Shed No Tears, Ollie Morgan, (2003)

Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession. Studs Terkel. (1992)

The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and the Slavery Agitation In that State, 1719-1864 Norman Dwight Harris. (1904)

I Refuse to Fail: The Autobiography of Dempsey Travis. (1992)

The Common Council and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 By Charles W. Mann. (1903)

Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920. Spear. (1967)

Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago. Todd Gitlin & Nanci Hollander. (1970)

Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. By St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton. (1945)

Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 William M. Tuttle, Jr. (1974) Atheneum Press.

Straight from the Heart. By Jesse Jackson. (1987)

Jesse Jackson: The Man, The Myth and the Movement. Barbara Reynolds. (1975)

Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Race By Thomas Landess & Richard Quinn. (1985)

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America. Alex Kotlowitz

Black Crusader: A Biography of Robert Franklin Williams By Robert Carl Cohen. (1972)

Fire and Blackstone By John R. Fry. (1969) "Non-Sermons" By A White Presbyterian Activist Minister In Woodlawn.

Hey White Girl! Susan Gregory. (1970)

The Camille Derose Story: The True Story of the Cicero Race Riots By Camille Derose. (1953)

The Man Who Beat Clout City Robert McClory.

Jean DuSable: Father of Chicago Cortesi (1972)

Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago: 1940-1960. Arnold Hirsch. (1983)

Brothers: Black And Poor--A True Story of Courage and Survival By Sylvester Monroe & Peter Goldman. (1988)

But Not Next Store: An Account of the Deerfield Case An attempt at integration By Harry And David Rosen. (1962)

A House for All Peoples: Ethnic Politics in Chicago: 1890-1936. By John M. Allswang. (1971)

Books on Rosewood Destruction 

Bench and Bar of Florida. Tallahassee, 1935.

F. W. Bucholz, History of Alachua County Florida. St. Augustine, 1929.

Chalmers, David. Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan. Durham: Duke University Press, 3rd edition, 1987.

Colburn, David R. and Richard Scher, Florida's Gubernatorial Politicsin the Twentieth Century.

Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida, 1980.

Ellsworth, Scott. Death in the Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 4th edition, 1974.

Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism.1860- 1925.

Rudwick, Elliott. Race Riot in East St. Louis, July 2, 1917. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.

Spear, Allan H. Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1967.

Tindall, George B. The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967.

Tuttle, William M. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919. New York: Atheneum, 1970.

Books on Lynching  

Racial and Religious Violence in America: A Chronology
by Michael Newton and Judy Ann Newton
N.Y.: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991

Racial Violence in Kentucky 1865-1940
by George C. Wright
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990

Lynching in the New South
by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993

Books on Slavery

Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Ante-Bellum South. Oxford, 2d ed., 1979. Landmark study based mainly on slave autobiographies; illustrated.

Conrad, Robert Edgar. World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil. Louisiana, 1986. Solid political account focused on 19th century.

Cosner, Shaaron. The Underground Railroad. Watts, 1991. Story of smuggling slaves in the American South to freedom; for grades 9-12.

Escott, Paul D. Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives. North Carolina, 1979. Quantitative analysis refutes Genovese's view.

Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. Pantheon, 1974, 1976. Analytical history of American slavery and the master-slave relationship from a Marxist perspective.

Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution. Random, 1989. Classic study of the economic aspects of slavery in the South first published 1956.

Books on Viet Nam War

Allen, Mark, "The Case of Billy Dean Smith," Black Scholar (Oct 1972): 15-17.

Goff, Stanley and Robert Sanders, Brothers: Black Soldiers in the Nam (Novato, CA: Presidio) 1982.

Graham, Fred P., "Two Marines Test Right of Dissent: Negroes Appeal Sentences for Antiwar Statement," New York Times (7 Mar 69): 11.

Grant, Zalin B., "Whites Against Blacks in Vietnam," New Republic (18 Jan 69): 15-16.

Holles, Everett, "Navy Disciplines Dissident Sailors," New York Times (11 Nov 72): 1.

Nakamura, Norman, "The Nature of GI Racism," in Amy Tachiki et al., eds., Roots: An Asian American Reader (Los Angeles: UCLA, Asian American Studies Center) 1971.

"Negro and White Marines Clash in Hawaii: 16 Hurt," New York Times (12 Aug 69): 23.

Nordheimer, Jon, "From Dakota to Detroit: Death of a Troubled Hero," New York Times (26 May 71): 1.

Parks, David, GI Diary (NY: Harper & Row) 1968.

Polner, Murray, "18-Minute Verdict: Military Justice and Constitutional Rights," Commonweal (18 Mar 69): 40-43.

"Riot at Long Binh Stockade Attributed to Racial Acts," New York Times (4 Sep 68): 38.

Taylor, Clyde, Vietnam and Black America: An Anthology of Protest and Resistance (Garden City, NY: Anchor) 1973.

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