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Selected Bibliography

Black Women in America, Second Edition

  • Alexander, Adele Logan. Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789.1879. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.
  • Allen, Carol. Black Women Intellectuals: Strategies of Nation, Family, and Neighborhood in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Jessie Fauset, and Marita Bonner. New York: Garland, 1998.
  • Allen, Zita. Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts, 1996.
  • Ammons, Elizabeth, ed. Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900–1920. New York Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • Anderson, Lisa. Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen. Lantham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.
  • Andolsen, Barbara Hilkert. Daughters of Jefferson, Daughters of Bootblacks.: Racism and American Feminism. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986.
  • Andrews, William L., ed. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
  • Angelou, Maya. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes. New York: Vintage, 1991.
  • Angelou, Maya. Gather Together in My Name. New York: Bantam, 1997.
  • Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House, 2002.
  • Aptheker, Bettina. Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982.
  • Aschenbrenner, Joyce. Katherine Dunham: Reflections of the Social and Political Contexts of Afro-American Dance. New York: CORD, 1981.
  • Banks, Ingrid. Hair Matters: Beauty, Power, and Black Women's Consciousness. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
  • Barnett, Ida B. Wells. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
  • Beals, Melba. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memory of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.
  • Beaulieu, Elizabeth Ann. Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
  • Bell, Ella. Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.
  • Benjamin, Lois, ed. Black Women in the Academy: Promises and Perils. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1997.
  • Bennett, Michael. Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representations by African American Women. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
  • Berry, Mary Frances. The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present. New York: Knopf, 1999.
  • Billingslea-Brown, Alma Jean. Crossing Borders through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
  • Billington, Ray Allen, ed. A Free Negro in the Slave Era: The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten. New York: Collier, 1961.
  • Blackwelder, Julia K. Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation. College Station: Texas AM University Press, 2003.
  • Blackwell, Joyce. No Peace Without Freedom: Race and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915–1975. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
  • Blair, Karen. The Clubwoman as Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1898–1914. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1980.
  • Bobo, Jacqueline. Black Women Film and Video Artists. New York: Routledge, 1998.
  • Bontemps, Jacqueline Fonvielle, and Arna A. Bontemps. Forever Free: Art by African American Women, 1862–1980. Alexandria, VA: Stephenson, 1980.
  • Boyd, Valerie. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribners, 2003.
  • Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Viking, 2000.
  • Broussard, Jinx C. Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists. New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story. New York: Anchor, 1994.
  • Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth. Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
  • Bunch-Lyons, Beverly A. Contested Terrain: African American Women Migrate from the South to Cincinnati, Ohio, 1900–1950. New York: Routledge, 2002.
  • Bundles, A'Lelia. Madam C. J. Walker, Entrepreneur. New York: Chelsea House, 1990.
  • Bundles, A'Lelia. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
  • Burkett, Randall K., Nancy Hall Burkett, and Henry Louis Gates, eds. Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790–1950. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1988.
  • Burkett, Randall K., Nancy Hall Burkett, and Henry Louis Gates, eds. Black Biography, 1790–1950: A Cumulative Index. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1991.
  • Bynum, Victoria. Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
  • Byrd, Ayana D. Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America. New York: St. Martin's, 2001.
  • Camp, Stephanie H. M. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
  • Cannon, Katie Geneva. Black Womanist Ethics. Atlanta, GA: Scholars, 1988.
  • Cannon, Katie Geneva. Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community. New York: Continuum, 1995.
  • Carby, Hazel V. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
  • Carnegie, Mary Elizabeth. The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1854–1994. New York: National League of Nursing, 1995.
  • Carpenter, Delores C. A Time for Honor: A Portrait of African American Clergywomen. St. Louis, MO: Chalice, 2001.
  • Carroll, Rebecca. I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like: The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers. New York: Crown, 1994.
  • Cash, Floris Loretta Barnett. African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896–1936. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001.
  • Casserly, Catherine M. African-American Women and Poverty: Can Education Alone Change the Status Quo? New York: Garland, 1998.
  • Cederholm, Theresa Dickason. Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory. Boston: Trustees of the Boston Public Library, 1973.
  • Chateauvert, Melinda. Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
  • Chrisman, Robert, and Robert L. Allen, eds. Court of Appeal: The Black Community Speaks Out on the Racial and Sexual Politics of Clarence Thomas vs. Anita Hill. New York: Ballantine, 1992.
  • Clark, Septima, and Cynthia Stokes Brown, eds. Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement. Navarro, CA: Wild Trees, 1986.
  • Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D. C., 1910–1940. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, 1994.
  • Cleage, Pearl. I Wish I Had a Red Dress: A Novel. New York: Morrow, 2001.
  • Cole, Johnetta B., and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities. New York: One World Books, 2003.
  • Collier-Thomas, Bettye. Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850–1979. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998.
  • Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V. P. Franklin, eds. Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
  • Collins, Lisa Gail. The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
  • Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 2000.
  • Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism. New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Collins, Patricia Hill. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minneapolis Press, 1998.
  • Cooper, Anna Julia. A Voice from the South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  • Crawford, Vicki L., Jacqueline A. Rouse, and Barbara Woods, eds. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941–1965. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson, 1990.
  • Dance, Daryl Cumber, ed. Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.
  • Dandridge, Rita B. Ann Allen Shockley: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1987.
  • Davis, Angela Y. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. New York: International Publishers, 1988.
  • Davis, Angela Y. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude .Ma. Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. New York: Pantheon, 1988.
  • Davis, Angela. Women, Race, and Class. New York: Vintage, 1981.
  • Davis, Lenwood G. The Black Woman in American Society: A Selected Bibliography. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1975.
  • Davis, Marianna W., ed. Contributions of Black Women to America. Columbia, SC: Kenday, 1981.
  • Davis, Thadious M. Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994.
  • Deboer, Clara Merritt. His Truth Is Marching On: African Americans Who Taught the Freedmen for the American Missionary Association, 1861.1877. New York: Garland, 1995.
  • Delfino, Susanna, and Michele Gillespie, eds. Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
  • Des Jardins, Julie. Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880.1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
  • Dill, Bonnie Thornton. Across the Boundaries of Race and Class: An Exploration of Work and Family among Black Female Domestic Servants. New York: Garland, 1994.
  • Dodson, Jualynne. Engendering Church: Women, Power, and the AME Church. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
  • Douglas, Kelly Brown. Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999.
  • Draper, James P., ed. Black Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Most Significant Works of Black Authors over the Past 200 Years. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1992.
  • Duster, Alfreda M., ed. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
  • Ebong, Ima, ed. Black Hair: Art Style and Culture. New York: Universe, 2001.
  • Edwards, Laura. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
  • Edwards, Linda McMurry. To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Egar, Emmanuel Edame. Black Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003.
  • Elders, Joycelyn, with David Chanoff. From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America. New York: Morrow, 1996.
  • Evers-Williams, Myrlie. Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be. Boston: Little Brown, 1999.
  • Farrington, Lisa. Art on Fire: The Politics of Race and Sex in the Paintings of Faith Ringgold. New York: Millennium Fine Arts, 1999.
  • Faulkner, Carol. Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
  • Fauset, Jessie Redmon. Plum Bun. London: Beacon, 1990.
  • Finkelman, Paul, ed. Women and the Family in a Slave Society. New York: Garland, 1989.
  • Fleming, Cynthia Griggs. Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
  • Foner, Philip S., and Josephine F. Pacheco. Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner.Champions of Antebellum Black Education. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984.
  • Foster, Frances Smith, ed. Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances E. W. Harper. Boston: Beacon, 1994.
  • Fout, John, and Maura Tantillo. American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race since the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
  • Frankel, Noralee. Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
  • Fraser, Gertrude Jacinta. African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
  • Frederick, Marla F. Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
  • Freeman, Roland L. A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill, 1996.
  • Freydberg, Elizabeth Amelia Hadley. Bessie Coleman: The Brownskin Lady Bird. New York: Garland, 1994.
  • Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  • Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Trials of Phyllis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers. New York: Basic Civitas, 2003.
  • George-Graves, Nadine. The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900.1940. New York: St. Martin's, 2000.
  • Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. New York: Morrow, 1996.
  • Giddings, Paula. In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement. New York: Morrow, 1988.
  • Gilkes, Cheryl Townsend. If It Wasn't for the Women: Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2001.
  • Gilkin, Ronda. Black American Women in Literature: A Bibliography, 1976 through 1987. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1989.
  • Gill, Laverne McCain. African American Women in Congress: Forming and Transforming History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
  • Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White S na, 1896.1920. Chapel Hill: University Of North Carolina Press, 1996.
  • Giovanni, Nikki. Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day: Poems. New York: Quill, 1980.
  • Giovanni, Nikki. Love Poems. New York: Morrow, 1997.
  • Glazer, Penina Migdal, and Miriam Slater. Unequal Colleagues: The Entrance of Women into the Professions, 1890.1940. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
  • Golden, Marita. Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men, and Sex. New York: Doubleday, 1993.
  • Gould, Virginia Meacham, ed. Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.
  • Graham, Maryemma, ed. Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  • Graham, Maryemma, ed. On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932.1992. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
  • Grant, Jacquelyn, ed. Perspectives on Womanist Theology. Atlanta, GA: ITC, 1995.
  • Grant, Jacquelyn. White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response. Atlanta, GA: Scholars, 1989.
  • Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker: Freedom Bound. New York: Wiley, 1998.
  • Gray, Brenda Clegg. Black Female Domestics during the Depression in New York City, 1930.1940. New York: Garland, 1993.
  • Green, Mildred D. Black Women Composers: A Genesis. Boston: Twayne, 1993.
  • Gregory, Chester W. Women in Defense Work during World War II: An Analysis of the Labor Problem and Women's Rights. New York: Exposition, 1974.
  • Gunning, Sandra. Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890.1912. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • Gutman, Herbert. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750.1925. New York: Pantheon, 1977.
  • Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes toward Black Women, 1880.1920. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson, 1990.
  • Guy-Sheftall, Beverly, ed. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought. New York: New Press, 1995.
  • Handy, Antoinette D. Black Women in American Bands and Orchestras. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
  • Hansberry, Lorraine. Raisin in the Sun. New York: Modern Library, 1995.
  • Hanson, Joyce Ann. Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003.
  • Harley, Sharon, ed. Sister Circle: Black Women and Work. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
  • Harley, Sharon, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, eds. The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images. Port Washington, NY: National University, 1978.
  • Harrison, Daphne Duval. Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
  • Height, Dorothy. Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir. New York: Public Affairs, 2003.
  • Hendricks, Wanda A. Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
  • Henkes, Robert. The Art of Black American Women: Works of Twenty-Four Artists of the Twentieth Century. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.
  • Hernton, Calvin. The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex, Literature, and Real Life. New York: Anchor, 1990.
  • Higginbotham, Elizabeth. Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
  • Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880. 1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
  • Hill, Anita F., and Emma Coleman Jordan, eds. Race, Gender and Power in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Hill, George, et al. Black Women in Television: An Illustrated History and Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1990.
  • Hill, Ruth, ed. The Black Women Oral History Project. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1991.
  • Hill, Ruth. Guide to the Transcripts of the Black Women's Oral History Project. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1989.
  • Hinding, Andrea, et al., eds. Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States. New York: Bowker, 1979.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. Black Women in American History: From Colonial Times through the Present. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson, 1990.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America. New York: Facts on File, 1997.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark. Hine Sight: Black Women and the Reconstruction of American History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark. When the Truth Is Told: A History of Black Women's Culture and Community in Indiana, 1875.1950. Indianapolis: National Council of Negro Women, 1981.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark, Patrick K. Bidelman, and Shirley M. Herd. The Black Women in the Middle West Project: A Comprehensive Resource Guide: Illinois and Indiana. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1983.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark, Elsa Barkley Brown, Tiffany R. L. Patterson, and Lillian S. Williams, eds. Black Women in United States History: From Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Carlson, 1990.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark, and David Barry Gaspar, eds. Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark, and David Barry Gaspar, eds. More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark, Wilma King, and Linda Reed, eds. .We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible.: A Reader in Black Women's History. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson, 1995.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark, and Kathleen Thompson. A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America. New York: Broadway, 1998.
  • Holt, Rackham. Mary McLeod Bethune: A Biography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964.
  • Honey, Maureen, ed. Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II. Columbia: Missouri University Press, 1999.
  • hooks, bell. Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Boston: South End, 1981.
  • hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End, 1992.
  • hooks, bell. Feminist Theory from Margin to Center. Boston: South End, 1984.
  • Horne, Gerald. Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
  • Hudson, Lynn M. The Making of .Mammy Pleasant.: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
  • Hull, Gloria T., Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith, eds. All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist, 1982.
  • Hunter, Tera. .To 'Joy My Freedom.: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
  • Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Harper Collins, 2000.
  • Ihle, Elizabeth L. Black Women in Higher Education. An Anthology of Essays, Studies, and Documents. New York: Garland, 1992.
  • Jackson, Jerma. Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
  • Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, edited by Jean Fagan Yellin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • James, Joy. Race, Women, and Revolution: Black Female Militancy and the Praxis of Ella Baker. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
  • James, Joy. Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.
  • James, Joy, and Ruth Farmer, eds. Spirit, Space and Survival: African American Women in (White) Academe. New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • James, Joy, and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. The Black Feminist Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000.
  • James, Stanlie M., and Abena P. A. Busia, eds. Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatisms of Black Women. New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • Janiewski, Delores E. Sisterhood Denied: Race, Class, and Gender in a New South Community. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985.
  • Jones, Gayl. Corregidora. New York: Random House, 1975.
  • Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York: Vintage, 1995.
  • Jordan, Barbara. Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979.
  • Jordan, Winthrop D., and Sheila L. Skemp, eds. Race and Family in the Colonial South: Essays. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987.
  • Katz, William Loren. Black Women of the Old West. New York: Atheneum, 1995.
  • Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  • Knupfer, Anne Meis. Toward a Tenderer Humanity and Nobler Womanhood: African American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
  • Landry, Bart. Black Working Wives: Pioneers of the American Family Revolution. Berkley: University of California Press, 2000.
  • Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York: Ballantine, 2004.
  • Lebsock, Suzanne. The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784.1860. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984.
  • Lee, Chaina Kai. For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
  • Lee, Valerie. Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers. New York: State University of New York Press, 1996.
  • Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
  • Lerner, Gerda. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York: Vintage, 1973.
  • Loewenberg, Bert James, and Ruth Bogin, eds. Black Women in Nineteenth Century American Life: Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1976.
  • Logan, Rayford W., and Michael R. Winston. Dictionary of American Negro Biography. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982.
  • Logan, Shirley W., ed. With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African American Women. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995.
  • Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984.
  • Mabokela, Reitumetse Okukeng, and Anna L. Green, eds. Sisters of the Academy: Emergent Black Women Scholars in Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2001.
  • Mack, Kibibi Voloria C. Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges: African American Women, Class, and Work in a South Carolina Community. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.
  • Malone, Ann Patton. Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth Century Louisiana. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
  • Malson, Micheline R., et al. Black Women in America: Social Science Perspectives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
  • Manatu, Norma. African American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003.
  • Mason, Julian D., Jr., ed. The Poems of Phillis Wheatley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
  • McAdoo, Harriet P., ed. Black Families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997.
  • McCluskey, Audrey T., and Elaine Smith. Mary McLeod Bethune, Building a Better World: Essays and Selected Documents. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
  • McMillan, Sally Gregory. Southern Women: Black and White Women in the Old South. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1992.
  • McMillan, Terry. Mama. New York: Pocket Star, 1994.
  • McMillan, Terry. Waiting to Exhale. New York: Viking, 1992. McMurray, Linda. To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Meisenhelder, Susan Edwards. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.
  • Middleton, David L. Toni Morrison: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1987.
  • Mills, Kay. This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. New York: Dutton, 1993.
  • Mitchell, Angelyn. The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
  • Mitchell, Michele. Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
  • Moldow, Gloria. Women Doctors in Gilded-Age Washington: Race, Gender, and Professionalization. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
  • Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Dial, 1968.
  • Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson, and Taylor Quintard, eds. African American Women Confront the West, 1600.2000. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.
  • Moorti, Sujata. The Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television's Public Spheres. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
  • Morello, Karen Berger. The Invisible Bar: The Woman Lawyer in America, 1638 to the Present. New York: Random House, 1986.
  • Morgan, Jennifer L. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. Philadelphia: University Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
  • Morgan, Joan. When Chickens Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
  • Morrison, Toni. Beloved: A Novel. New York: Knopf, 1987.
  • Morrison, Toni, ed. Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
  • Morrison, Toni. Sula. New York: Knopf, 1974.
  • Morrow Diane. Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828.1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
  • Morton, Patricia, ed. Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
  • Morton, Patricia. Disfigured Images: The Historical Assault on African American Women. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
  • Motley, Constance Baker. Equal Justice under Law: An Autobiography. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.
  • Murray, Pauli. Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage. New York: Harper and Row, 1997.
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  • Perkins, Kathy A., ed. Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays before 1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
  • Perkins, Linda M. Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth, 1865.1902. New York: Garland, 1987.
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Research Centers and Archival Collections

  • Amistad Research Center
  • Tulane University
  • New Orleans, LA 70118
  • Mary McLeod Bethune Papers, 1923.1936
  • Carol Brice Papers, 1905
  • Marguerite Dorsey Cartwright Papers, 1927.
  • Julius Rosenwald Fund Papers, 1917.1948
  • Fredi Washington Papers, 1925.1975
  • Camilla Williams Papers, 1944.1973
  • Atlanta University
  • Robert W. Woodruff Library
  • Negro Collection
  • Atlanta, GA 30314
  • Association of Southern Women for Prevention of Lynching Records, 1920.1943
  • Chautauqua Circle Records, 1913.1970
  • Cullen-Jackman Memorial Collection: Miscellany
  • Grace (Towns) Hamilton Papers, 1928.1976
  • Maud Cuney Hare Papers, 1900.1936
  • Nellie Towns, in George Alexander Towns Papers, 1851.1956
  • Southern Conference on Human Welfare Records, 1938.1967
  • Bennett College
  • Thomas F. Holgate Library
  • Greensboro, NC 27401
  • Afro-American Women Collection Bennett College Records, 1873.
  • Scrapbooks, 1929.1950s
  • Vertical File Collection
  • Bethune Museum and Archives
  • 1318 Vermont Ave., N.W.
  • Washington, DC 20005
  • Processed Collections:
  • National Council of Negro Women, 1935.1978
  • Unprocessed Collections:
  • Audio Visual Resources
  • Jeanetta Welch Brown Papers
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  • Jeanne Dogo Papers
  • Jennie Austin Fletcher Papers
  • Susie Green Papers
  • Mary E. C. Gregory Papers
  • Euphemia Lofton Haynes Papers
  • Dorothy Parker Koger Papers
  • Historical Annals of the Ladies Auxiliary, Knights of Peter Clover
  • National Alliance of Black Feminists
  • National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers
  • Records of the National Committee on Household Employment
  • Charles C. Parlin Papers
  • Photographic Collection
  • Dovey Johnson Roundtree Papers
  • Ethel Emory Heywood Smith Papers
  • Mabel Keaton Staupers Papers
  • Alice Thomas Papers
  • Miriam H. Thomas Papers
  • Vertical File Collection
  • Chicago Historical Society
  • North Avenue and Clark Street
  • Chicago, IL 60614
  • Etta Moten Barnett Papers, 1934.1966
  • Irene Gaines Papers, 1917.1968
  • Detroit Public Library
  • Burton Historical Collection
  • 5201 Woodward Ave.
  • Detroit, MI 48202
  • Housewives League of Detroit Records, 1930.1973
  • DuSable Museum of African American History
  • 740 E. 56th Place
  • Chicago, IL 60637
  • Hope I. Dunmore Papers, 1905.1960
  • Mellissa Ann Elam Papers, 1910.1925
  • Fisk University Library
  • Special Collections
  • Nashville, TN 37208
  • Lizzie Crofton Anderson Papers, 1972
  • Dorothy Brown Papers, 1961
  • Carrie B. H. Collins Papers
  • Ophelia
  • Settle Egypt Papers, 1925.
  • Grace James Papers, 1972
  • Cecile Barefield Jefferson Papers, 1928.1970
  • Gerda Lerner Collection on Black Women, 1972.
  • Naomi Long Madgett Papers, 1941.1968
  • Louise Meriwether Papers
  • Margaret Simms Papers, 1952.1970
  • Eileen Southern Papers, 1971
  • Mary Spence Papers
  • Lillian Voorhees Papers, 1927.1960
  • Indiana Historical Society
  • 315 W. Ohio St.
  • Indianapolis, IN 46202
  • Black Women in the Middle West Project Papers
  • Library of Congress
  • Manuscript Division
  • Washington, DC 20540
  • National Youth Administration Mary Church Terrell Papers, 1886.1954
  • Minnesota Historical Society
  • Archives and Manuscripts
  • 345 West Kellogg Blvd.
  • St. Paul, MN 55102
  • Hallie Q. Brown Community House Records, 1861.1960s
  • Ethel Ray Nance Papers, 1920.1968
  • Oral History Tapes, 1945
  • Irene Persons Papers, 1937
  • Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
  • Manuscript Division
  • Founders Library
  • Howard University
  • Washington, DC 20059
  • Marian Anderson Papers, 1939.1943
  • Mary Elizabeth Branch Papers, July 1909.3 May 1944
  • Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection, 1967.1973
  • Jeannette Carter Papers, 1927.1964
  • Mary Ann Shadd Cary Papers, 1844.1884
  • Anna J. Cooper Papers, 1881.1958
  • Donor Oral History Program, 1982.
  • Eva B. Dykes Papers, 1914.1977
  • Lena Edwards Papers, 1905.1985
  • Ophelia Settle Egypt Papers, 1930.1980
  • Crystal Bird Fauset Papers, 1944.1959
  • Gregoria Fraser Goins Papers, 1843.1962
  • Angelina Weld Grimkéapers, 1887.1958
  • Hazel Harrison Papers, 1900.1950s
  • Charlotte Moton Hubbard Papers, 1934.1970
  • Revella Hughes Papers Pauli Murray Papers, 1943.1944
  • Rosey Eve Pool Papers, 1959.1967
  • Anita Thompson Dickinson Reynolds Papers, 1850.1980
  • Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Black Women's Oral History Transcripts
  • Lucy Diggs Slowe Papers, 1919.1943
  • Myra L. Spaulding Papers, 1892.1922
  • Isabele Taliaferro Spiller Papers, 1906.1954
  • Mabel Keaton Staupers Papers, 1937.1970
  • Mary Church Terrell Papers, 1888.1976
  • Sara A. Turner Collection, 1866.1901
  • Washington Conservatory of Music, Harriet Gibbs Marshall Papers, 1887.1966
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  • New York Public Library
  • 515 Malcolm X Blvd. New York, NY 10037
  • Wilhelmina Adams Papers, 1926.1962
  • Bessye Bearden Papers, 1923.1944
  • Conrad and Tubman Papers, 1893.1941
  • Ruby Sheppard Davis Papers, 1940.1975
  • Mary Caldwell Dawson Papers, 1937.1959
  • Rielta Hines Herbert Papers, 1948.1964
  • Lyons and Williams Papers, 1830.1957
  • Alice McInnis Papers, 1938.1974
  • National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses Papers, 1908.1951
  • Lucy Terry Prince Papers, 1967.1972
  • Tuskegee University Archives
  • Hollis Burke Fissell Library
  • Tuskegee, AL 36088
  • Juanita Gilmore Brewster Papers, 1800.1970
  • Sadie P. Delaney Papers, 1923.1958
  • National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax Papers, 1943.1948
  • Edith M. Washington Shehee Papers, 1910.1964
  • Southern Conference Educational Fund Records, 1938.1963
  • Margaret Murray Washington Papers, 1896.1925

University of Illinois at Chicago
Circle Library
Manuscript Collection
The Library.Box 8198

Chicago, IL 60607

  • Chicago Urban League Records, 1932.1971
  • Gary Urban League Records, 1941.1965
  • Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission Records, 1953.1968
  • Phillis Wheatley Association Records, 1908.1966
  • University of Louisville
  • Oral History Center
  • Department of History
  • Belknap Campus
  • Louisville, KY 40292
  • Hilda H. Butler Oral History, 1977
  • Vivian Crowell Oral History, 1977
  • Ruth Harry and Vivian Crowell (2 tapes)
  • Abbie Clement Jackson Oral History, 1977
  • Susan St. Clair Minor Oral History, 1977
  • Estella Sales Oral History, 1976
  • Wayne State University
  • Walter P. Reuther Library
  • Archive of Labor and Urban Affairs
  • Detroit, MI 48202
  • Frances Albrier Oral History, 1968
  • Joseph and Rose Billups Oral History, 1967
  • Geraldine Bledsoe Oral History, 1970
  • Dorothy Jones Oral History
  • Layle Lane Papers
  • Beulah Whitby Oral History, 1969
  • Western Reserve Historical Society
  • 10825 East Blvd.
  • Cleveland, OH 44106
  • Jane E. Hunter Papers, 1930.1969
  • Ladies Society of Brocton, Ohio, Papers, 1866
  • L. Pearl Mitchell Papers, 1875.1974
  • Phillis Wheatley Association, 1914.1960
  • Compiled by Kennetta Hammond and Janet Sims-Wood