African American Studies Research Bibliography

I. GENERAL SOURCES: DICTIONARIES, DIRECTORIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS
 
 
The African-American Almanac. 6th ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994-.
SML E185 +A27 (LC) [Latest volume in reference]
Continues the Negro Almanac, 1967-1989.
 
The African American Encyclopedia. Ed. Michael W. Williams. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1993. 6v.
Reference E185 A253 1993 (LC)
 
African American Historic Places. Ed. Beth L. Savage. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1994.
Reference E185 A2534X 1994 (LC)
 
The Black American Reference Book. Ed. Mabel M. Smythe. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976.
Reference E185 D25 1976 (LC)
 
Black Americans Information Directory. Ed. Darren L. Smith. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. A guide to approximately 5,300 organizations, agencies, institutions, programs and publications concerned with Black American life and culture, including associations, awards, honors, and prizes, colleges and universities, cultural organizations, government agencies and programs, industrial and service companies, libraries, museums, newsletters and directories, newspapers and periodicals, publishers, radio and television stations, religious organizations, research centers, scholarships, study programs, and videos.
Reference E185.5 +B504 1995 (LC) 

Black Elected Officials. New York: UNIPUB, 1984-.
Reference E185.5 N375 (LC) SSL has more recent edition
 
Black Firsts. Ed. Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994.
Reference E185 B574X 1994 (LC)
 
Bogle, Donald. Blacks in American Films and Television: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Pub., 1988.
Reference PN1995.9 N4 +B62 1988 (LC)
 
Cantor, George. Historic Landmarks of Black America. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991.
Reference E185.53 A1 C36 1991 (LC) 

Cashmore, Ernest. Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations. London & New York: Routledge, 1996.
SML GN496 C37X 1996
 
Directory of African American Religious Bodies: A Compendium by the Howard University School of Divinity. 2nd ed. Ed. Wardell J. Payne. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1995.
Reference BR563 N4 +D57X 1995 (LC)
 
Directory of African & Afro-American Studies in the United States. Waltham, MA: African Studies Association, 1976-.
SML DT19.9 U5 D57
 
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery. Ed. Randall M. Miller, John David Smith. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Reference E441 D53 1988 (LC)
 
Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. Ed. Charles D. Lowery, John F. Marszalek. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Reference E185.61 E54X 1992 (LC)
 
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1996.
Reference E185 +E54X 1996
 
Encyclopedia of African American Religions. Ed. Larry G. Murphy, J. Gordon Melton, Gary L. Ward. New York: Garland Pub., 1993.
Divinity, Trowbridge Reading Room Oversize BR563 N4 E53 1993
 
Encyclopedia of Black America. Ed. W. Augustus Low. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.
Reference E185 +E55 (LC) Also: CCL Reference
 
Garrett, Romeo B. Famous First Facts About Negroes. New York: Arno Press, 1972.
Reference E185 G37 (LC)
 
Grossman, Mark. The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Civil Rights Movement. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1993. Law SSNK G9147
 
The Harlem Renaissance: An Historical Dictionary For the Era. Ed. Bruce Kellner. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
CCL NX511 N4 H37 1984 (LC)
 
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Ed. Stephen Thernstrom. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1980.
Reference E184 A1 +H358 (LC) Also: CCL Reference
 
Images of Blacks in American Culture: A Reference Guide to Information Sources. Ed. Jessie Carney Smith. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Reference NX652 A37 I43 1988 (LC) Also: SML Stacks
 
Juba to Jive: The Dictionary of African-American Slang. Ed. Clarence Major. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.
Reference PE3727 N4 M35 1994
Klotman, Phyllis Rauch. Frame By Frame: A Black Filmography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.
Reference PN1995.9 N4 K57
 
National Urban League. The State of Black America. New York: National Urban League, 1976-.
SML E185.5 +N317 (LC) [Latest volume in Reference]
 
Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films. 2nd ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995.
Reference PN1995.9 N4 S2 1995
Young, Tommie M. Afro-American Genealogy Sourcebook. New York: Garland Pub., 1987.
Reference E185.96 Y67 1987 (LC)
 
 

II. CHRONOLOGIES
 
 
Bergman, Peter M. The Chronological History of the Negro in America. New York: Harper & Row, [1969].
Reference E185 B47 (LC)
 
Christian, Charles Melvin. Black Saga: The African American Experience. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Reference E185 +C519X 1995 (LC)
 
Diggs, Ellen Irene. Black Chronology: From 4000 B.C. to the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.
Reference DT17 D5 1983
 
Harley, Sharon. The Timetables of African-American History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in African-American History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Reference E185 +H295 1995 (LC)
 
Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: From 1492 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997.
Reference E185 H64 1997 (LC)
 
Jenkins, Everett. Pan-African Chronology: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, 1400-1865. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996.
Reference DT17 J46X 1996
 
 

III. STATISTICAL SOURCES
 
 
Black Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook. Boulder, CO: Numbers & Concepts, 1990-.
SML E185.5 B512 (LC) [Latest volume in Reference]
 
Historical Statistics of Black America. Ed. Jessie Carney Smith and Carrell Peterson Horton. New York: Gale Research, 1995. 2v.
Reference E185 +H577 1995 (LC)

Statistical Record of Black America. Ed. Carrell Peterson Horton, Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1990.
Reference E185.85 +S84 1990 (LC)
 
US Bureau of the Census. The Social and Economic Status of the Black Population in the US: A Historical View, 1790-1978. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. 1979.
Contains current population reports, special studies, series P-23, no.80.
Governemnt Document Center. C 3.186: p. 23-80.
 
US Bureau of the Census. Negroes in the US, 1920-1932. Washington, DC: US Governement Printing Office. 1935.

IV. BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES 
 
American Biographical Index. Ed. Laureen Baillie. London & New York: K. G. Saur, 1993. 6 v.
Reference CT213 +A548 1993 (LC)
 
American Biographical Archive [microform]: a one-alphabet cumulation of almost 400 of the most important English-language biographical reference works on the United States and Canada originally published between the 18th and the early 20th centuries. Ed. Laureen Baillie. London & New York: K.G. Saur, 1986-.
Reference Fiche B2801

American Biographical Archive II. [microform]. Ed. Laureen Baillie. London & New York: K.G. Saur, 1994-.
Reference Fiche B2801
 
Bio-Base. [microform] Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978-.
Reference Desk Fiche S320 

Biography Index: A Cumulative Index to Biographical Material in Books and Magazines. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1946/49-.
Reference Z5301 B56 (LC) Also: Online 

Abajian, James de T. Blacks in Selected Newspapers, Censuses and Other Sources: An Index to Names and Sources. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977. [+ Suppl. 1985].
Reference Z1361 N39 +A28 (LC)  

African-American Sports Greats: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. David L. Porter. Westport, CT & London: Greenwood Press, 1995.
SML GV697 A1 F37X 1995 (LC)
 
African American Writers. Ed. Valerie Smith. New York: C. Scribner's Sons; Toronto: Collier Macmillan, 1991.
Reference PS153 N5 +A344X 1991
 
Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index. Ed. Randall K. Burkett, Nancy Hall Burkett, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alexander: Chadwyck-Healey, 1990. 3v. The three volume set indexes a large microfiche set, Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950, microform which reproduces approximately 300 American collective biographies. The microfiche set is available in SML Main Reference Room, Fiche B2653.
Reference Z1361 N39 +B52 1990 (LC)

Black leaders of the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Leon Litwack, August Meier. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
CCL E185.96 B535 1988 (LC)
 
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1993. 2 v.
Reference E185.86 +B542 1993 (LC)
 
Foner, Eric. Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Reference E185.96 +F64X 1993 (LC)
 
Green, Mildred Denby. Black Women Composers: A Genesis. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983.
Music ML390 G797 B6
 
Hawkins, Walter L. African American Biographies: Profiles of 558 Men and Women. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992.
Reference E185.96 H38X 1992 (LC)
 
Ingham, John N. African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
SSL, Reference HC102.5 A2 I52X 1994 (LC)
 
Logan, Rayford Whittingham. Dictionary of American Negro Biography. New York: Norton, 1982.
Reference E185.96 L6 1982 (LC) Also: CCL Reference
 
Notable Black American Women. Ed. Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991.
Reference E185.96 +N68X 1992 (LC)
 
Moebs, Thomas Truxtun. Black Soldiers - Black Sailors - Black Ink: Research Guide on African-Americans in U.S. Military History, 1526-1900. Chesapeake Bay [Va.]: Moebs Pub. Co., 1994. Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers. New York: Writers & Readers, 1993.
Art/Architecture TR139 +M63 1993 (LC)
Reference UB418 A47 +M64X 1994 (LC) 

Page, James A. Black Olympian Medalists. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1991.
SML GV697 A1 +P284 1991 (LC)
 
Ragsdale, Bruce A. and Joel D. Tresse. Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989 (House Document 101-117). Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office. 1935.
Govt. Doc. Center, Congressional Seroal Set v. 13947.
 
Sammons, Vivian O. Blacks in Science and Medicine. New York: Hemisphere Pub. Corp., 1990.
Reference Q141 +B58 1990
 
Spradling, Mary Mace. In Black and White: A Guide to Magazine Articles, Newspaper Articles, and Books Concerning More Than 15,000 Black Individuals and Groups. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980.
Reference Z1361 N39 +S655 1980 (LC)
 
__________. In Black and White . Supplement: A Guide to Magazine Articles, Newspaper Articles, and Books Concerning More Than 6,700 Black Individuals and Groups. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1985.
Reference Z1361 N39 +S655 1980 Suppl. (LC) 

Who's Who Among Black Americans. Lake Forest, IL: Who's Who Among Black Americans Pub. Co.
SML E185.96 +W52 (LC) [Latest volume in Reference]
 
Who's Who in Colored America: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in the United States. Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: C. E. Burkel [etc.], 1927-1950.
SML E185.96 W48 (LC)
 
 

V. ATLASES
  
Allen, James Paul. We the People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity. New York: Macmillan, 1988.
Reference Folio E184 A1 A479 1988 (LC) 

Asante, Molefi K. The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans. New York: Macmillan; Toronto: Collier Macmillan; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991.
Reference E185 +A8X 1991 (LC)
 
 

VI. BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES 

Besterman, Theodore. A World Bibliography of Bibliographies: And of Bibliographical Catalogues, Calendars, Abstracts, Digests, Indexes, and the Like. Lausanne: Societas Bibliographica, 1965-66. Citations about African-Americans are found under the heading Negroes. Entries are listed in chronological order by publication date. Sixty-one citations are listed for the period 1900-1961.
Reference Z1002 +B47 1965 (LC)

Newman, Richard. Black Access: A Bibliography of Afro-American Bibliographies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. Over 3,000 bibliographies are listed in this work.
Reference Z1361 N39 N578 1984 (LC) 

Toomay, Alice. World Bibliography of Bibliographies, 1964-1974: A List of Works Represented By Library of Congress Printed Catalog Cards: A Decennial Supplement to Theodore Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977.
SML Z1002 +T66 (LC)
 

VII. SUBJECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIES
 
A. General
 
Blockson, Charles L. A Commented Bibliography of One Hundred and One Influential Books By and About People of African Descent, 1556-1982: A Collector's Choice. Amsterdam: A. Gerits & Sons, 1989.
SML Z1361 N39 +B585 1989 (LC)
 
Davis, Lenwood G. Index to CPL Bibliographies on Blacks, Related to Blacks, On Africa, and Related to Africa, Numbers 869-1310. Monticello, IL: Council of Planning Librarians, 1977.
SML Z5942 +C68 1374 (LC)
 
Davis, Nathaniel. Afro-American Reference: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Resources. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Reference Z1361 N39 D37 1985 (LC)

The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1992-. Compiled by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture reference librarians, this indexes includes citations for books, magazine, and newspaper articles.
Reference Z1361 N39 +K34X 1992 (LC) 

Miller, Elizabeth W. The Negro in America: A Bibliography Compiled by Elizabeth W. Miller For the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2d ed., rev. and enlarged. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Reference Z1361 N39 M55 1970 (LC) Also CCL Z1361 N39 M55 1970
 
Miller, Wayne Charles. A Comprehensive Bibliography for the Study of American Minorities. New York: New York University Press, 1976.
Reference Z1361 E4 +M52 (LC) Also: Andrews Study
 
Minorities in America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985-.
Reference Z1361 E4 +M57 (LC)
 
Porter, Dorothy. The Negro in the United States: A Selected Bibliography. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1970.
Reference Z1361 N39 P67 (LC)
 
__________. A Working Bibliography on the Negro in the United States. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1969.
Reference Z1361 N39 P672 (LC)
 
Salk, Erwin A. A Layman's Guide to Negro History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
SML Z1361 N39 S23 1967 (LC)

Smith, Dwight La Vern. Afro-American History: A Bibliography. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1974. Over 4,000 citations with abstracts on the African American experience in the United States and Canada. Citations are drawn from America: History and Life, vols 11-15 (1974-1978) and the America: History and Life Supplement to vols 1-10 (1964-1973). The citations are divided into the following sections: Traditions in Afro-American Culture; Black Experience in Colonial America; Slavery and Freedom (1783-1865); Reconstruction and Its Aftermath (1865-1900); Afro-American Society in the Twentieth Century; and The Contemporary Scene (Since 1945).
Reference Z1361 N39 +S65 (LC) 

Westmoreland, Guy T. An Annotated Guide to Basic Reference Books on the Black American Experience. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1974.
Reference Z1361 N39 W49 (LC)

Work, Monroe Nathan. A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and in America. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1928.
Reference Z1361 N39 W67 (LC) Also: SML X413 928
 
B. Biography, Autobiography
 
Bell, Barbara L. Black Biographical Sources: An Annotated Bibliography. New Haven: Yale University Library, 1970.
SML Z1007 +Y25 1 (LC)
 
Brignano, Russell C. Black Americans in Autobiography: An Annotated Bibliography of Autobiographies and Autobiographical Books Written Since the Civil War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1984.
Divinity Stack Reference Z1361 N39 B67 1984 (LC) Also: SML Stacks [1974 ed.]
 
Fuller, Juanita Boykin. An Annotated Bibliography of Biographies and Autobiographies of Negroes, 1839-1961. [s.n.], 1962.
Microform Fiche B865
 
Swisher, Robert. Black American Biography, Compiled by Robert Swisher, and Black American Scientists, Compiled by Carol Tullis, and Black Americans in Public Affairs, Compiled By Richard Hicks. Bloomington: Indiana University Libraries, 1969.
SML Z1361 N39 +S93 (LC)
 
 
C. Civil Rights
 
A Guide to Research on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle. Compiled by the staff of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries, 1989.
SML Z8464.44 G85 1989 (LC)
 
Jones, Leon. From Brown to Boston: Desegregation in Education, 1954-1974. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1979. 2v
Reference Z5814 D5 J65 (LC)
 
Murray, Paul T. The Civil Rights Movement: References and Resources. New York: G.K. Hall; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.
Reference Z1361 N39 M93X 1993 (LC)
 
D. Family and Health
 
Davis, Lenwood G. The Black aged in the United States: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. First chapter devoted exclusively to books and articles on Black Aged and slavery. The remaining chapters are arranged by format, book/pamphlets; dissertations/theses; government publication and articles. The appendix includes a list of Black Old Folks' Homes, 1860-1988.
Reference Z1361 N39 D354 1989 (LC) 

______. The Black family in the United States: A Revised, Updated, and Selectively Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Reference Z1361 N39 D355 1986 (LC)

Dunmore, Charlotte. Black Children and Their Families: A Bibliography. San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1976.
SML Z1361 N39 +D898 (LC)
 
Myers, Hector F. Black Child Development in America, 1927-1977: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
SML Z1361 N39 M94 (LC)
 

Research on the Black Child and Family at Howard University, 1867-1978. Ed. Pearl L. Rosser, Joyce Fite Hamlin. Washington, DC: Institute for Child Development and Family Life, Howard University, 1979.
SML E185.86 R48 (LC)
 
Rice, Mitchell F. Black American Health: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
SML Z6673.6 U6 R5 1987 (LC)

Page, James A. Selected Black American, African, and Caribbean Authors: A Bio-Bibliography. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1985.
SML Z1229 N39 P34 1985 (LC)
 
Peck, David R. American Ethnic Literatures: Native American, African American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American Writers and Their Backgrounds: An Annotated Bibliography. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1992.
Reference Z1229 E87 P43X 1992 (LC)
 
Perry, Margaret. The Harlem Renaissance: An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary. New York: Garland Pub., 1982.
Reference Z5956 A47 P47 1982 (LC)
 
Peterson Bernard L. Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers: A Biographical Directory and Catalog of Plays, Films, and Broadcasting Scripts. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
SML PS153 N5 P495 1990
 
__________. Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Reference PS153 N5 P49 1988
 
Porter, Dorothy. North American Negro Poets, a Bibliographical Checklist of Their Writings, 1760-1944. Hattisburg, MI: The Book Farm, 1945.
Reference Z1361 N39 P671 (LC)
 
Rollock, Barbara. Black Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1988.
SML Z1037 R63 1988 (LC)
 
Roses, Lorraine Elene. The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1989.
Reference PS153 N5 R65 1989
 
Southgate, Robert L. Black Plots & Black Characters: A Handbook for Afro-American Literature. Syracuse, NY: Gaylord Professional Publications, 1979.
Reference PS153 N5 S65
 
Yancy, Preston M. The Afro-American Short Story: A Comprehensive, Annotated Index With Selected Commentaries. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Reference Z1229 N39 Y36 1986 (LC)
 
Yellin, Jean Fagan. The Pen is Ours: A Listing of Writings By and About African-American Women Before 1910 With Secondary Bibliography to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Reference Z1229 N39 Y44X 1991 (LC)
 
F. Media
 
Gray, John. Blacks in Film and Television: A Pan-African Bibliography of Films, Filmmakers, and Performers. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Reference Z5784 M9 G72 1990 (LC)
 
Hill, George H. Black Women in Television: An Illustrated History and Bibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.
SML PN1992.8 A34 H55 1990
 
__________. Blacks on Television: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1985.
SML Z1361 N39 H53 1985 (LC)
 
Hyatt, Marshall. The Afro-American Cinematic Experience: An Annotated Bibliography & Filmography. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1983.
Reference PN1995.9 N4 H9 1983
 
Richards, Larry. African American Films Through 1959: a comprehensive, illustrated filmography. London: McFarland and Co. 1998.
SML Ref. PN1995.9N4 R54X 1998.
 
Woll, Allen L. Ethnic and Racial Images in American Film and Television: Historical Essays and Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1987.
SML Z5784 M9 W65 1987 (LC)
 
G. Music
 
Carter, Madison H. An Annotated Catalog of Composers of African Ancestry. New York: Vantage Press, 1986.
Music ML128 A2 C3
 
De Lerma, Dominique-Rene. Bibliography of Black Music. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981-1984. 4v.
SML ML128 B45 +D44 (LC)
 
Floyd, Samuel A. Black Music Biography: An Annotated Bibliography. White Plains, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1987.
SML ML128 B3 F6 1987 (LC)
 
__________. Black Music in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Reference and Research Materials. Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1983.
SML ML128 B45 F6 1983 (LC)
 
Gray, John. Blacks in Classical Music: A Bibliographical Guide to Composers, Performers, and Ensembles. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Music ML128 A2 G7
 
Horne, Aaron. Keyboard Music of Black Composers. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Music ML128 P58 H8
 
__________. String Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Music ML128 B4 H8
 
__________. Woodwind Music of Black Composers. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
SML ML128 W5 H65 1990 (LC)
 
Jackson, Irene V. Afro-American Religious Music: A Bibliography and Catalogue of Gospel Music. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
SML ML128 S4 J3 (LC)
 
Roach, Hildred. Black American Music: Past and Present. Malabar, FL: R. E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1985, 1976. 2v
Music ML3556 R628 B6 1985
 
Skowronski, JoAnn. Black Music in America: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981.
Music Reference ML128 A2 S6
 
Southern, Eileen. African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
SML Z5956 A47 +S68 1990 (LC)
 
Spencer, Jon Michael. As the Black School Sings: Black Music Collections at Black Universities and Colleges With a Union List of Book Holdings. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Music ML128 A2 S7
 
Tischler, Alice. Fifteen Black American Composers: A Bibliography of Their Works. Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1981.
Music ML106 U58 T6
 
Walker-Hill, Helen. Piano Music by Black Women Composers: A Catalog of Solo and Ensemble Works. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Music ML128 P58 W179
 
White, Evelyn Davidson. Choral Music by Afro-American Composers: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981.
Music ML128 A2 W5+
 
H. Race Relations
 
Davis, Lenwood G. Black-Jewish Relations in the United States, 1752-1984: A Selected Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Reference Z1361 N39 D57 1984 (LC) Also in Divinity
 
Kinloch, Graham Charles. Race and Ethnic Relations: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1984.
SML Z1361 E4 K54 1984 (LC)
 
Obudho, Constance E. Black-White Racial Attitudes: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.
SML Z1361 N39 O28 1976 (LC)
 
Racism in the United States: A Comprehensive Classified Bibliography. Comp. by Meyer Weinberg. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Reference Z1361 E4 R33 1990 (LC)
 
Thompson, Edgar Tristram. Race and Region, a Descriptive Bibliography Compiled With Special Reference to the Relations Between Whites and Negroes in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1949.
Reference Z1361 N39 T46 (LC)
 
I. Regional
 
Abajian, James de T. Blacks and Their Contributions to the American West: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings Through 1970. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1974.
SML Z1361 N39 A27 (LC)
 
McBride, David. The Afro-American in Pennsylvania: A Critical Guide To Sources in the Pennsylvania State Archives. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1979.
SML Z1361 N39 M27 (LC)
 
The Ohio Black History Guide. Ed. Sara Fuller. Columbus: Archives-Library Division, Ohio Historical Society, 1975.
SML Z1361 N39 O55 (LC)
 
Taylor, David Vassar. Blacks in Minnesota: A Preliminary Guide to Historical Sources. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1976.
SML Z1361 N39 +T27(LC)
 
J. Religion
 
Gray, John. Ashe, Traditional Religion and Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora: A Classified International Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
SML Z7834 A3 G72 1989 (LC)
 
Williams, Ethel Langley. The Howard University Bibliography of African and Afro-American Religious Studies: With Locations in American Libraries. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1977.
Reference Z1361 N39 +W555 (LC)
 
K. Slavery
 
Bartlett, John Russell. The Literature of the Rebellion: A Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the Civil War in the United States, and on Subjects Growing out of That Event, Together With Works on American Slavery, and Essays From Reviews on the Same Subjects. Westport: Negro Universities Press, [1970]. [Reprint of 1866 ed.]
SML Z1242 B37 [1866 ed.] Also: Andrews Study Z1242 B37 1970 (LC)
 
Dumond, Dwight Lowell. A Bibliography of Antislavery in America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1961.
Reference Z1249 S6 +D85 (LC)
 
Drescher, Seymour and Stanley L. Engerman. A Historical Guide to World Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
SML Ref. HT861 H59X 1998 (LC).
 
Finkelman, Paul. Slavery in the Courtroom: An Annotated Bibliography of American Cases. Washington, DC: Library of Congress: For Sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1985.
SML KF4545 S5 A123 1985 (LC)
 
Kujoory, Parvin. Black Slavery in America: An Annotated Mediagraphy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1995.
Reference E441 K84X 1995 (LC)
Miller, Joseph Calder. Slavery: A Comparative Teaching Bibliography. Waltham, MA: Crossroads Press, 1977.
SML Z7164 S6 +M54 (LC)
 
__________. Slavery: A Worldwide Bibliography, 1900-1982. White Plains, NY: Kraus International, 1985.
Reference Z7164 S6 M543 1985 (LC)
 
Schor, Joel. A List of References for the History of Black Americans in Agriculture, 1619-1980. Davis, CA: Agricultural History Center, University of California, [1981].
SML Z7164 L1 +S36 1981 (LC)
 
Smith, John David. Black Slavery in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography, 1865-1980. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Reference Z7164 S6 S63 1982 (LC)
 
L. Social Conditions
 
Hay, Frederick J. African-American Community Studies From North America: A Classified, Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1991.
SML Z1361 N39 H37X 1991 (LC)
 
Momeni, Jamshid A. Demography of the Black Population in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography With a Review Essay. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
SML Z1361 N39 M6 1983 (LC)
 
Nordquist, Joan. African Americans: Social and Economic Conditions: A Bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1992.
Reference Z7164 S66 C65 27 (LC)
 
Obudho, Robert A. Afro-American Demography and Urban Issues: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Reference Z1361 N39 O29 1985 (LC)
Also: SML Stacks
 
Ross, Frank Alexander. A Bibliography of Negro Migration. New York: B. Franklin, [1969].
CCL Z1361 N39 R8 1969 (LC)
 
M. Women
Nordquist, Joan. The African-American Woman: Social and Economic Conditions: A Bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1993.
Reference Z7164 S66 C65 32 (LC)
 
Redfern, Bernice. Women of Color in the United States: A Guide to the Literature. New York: Garland, 1989, 1988.
Reference Z7964 U49 R4 1989 (LC)
 
__________. The Progress of Afro-American Women: A Selected Bibliography and Resource Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.
Reference Z1361 N39 S52 (LC)
 
Williams, Ora. American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994. 3rd. ed. rev. and enl.
Reference Z1361 N39 W56 1994 (LC)
 
N. Miscellaneous
 
Adamczyk, Alice J. Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1989.
Reference Z7514 D2 A33 1989 (LC)
 
Black Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States: An Annotated bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
SML Z1361 N39 B553 1985 (LC)
 
Chambers, Frederick. Black Higher Education in the United States: A Selected Bibliography on Negro Higher Education and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978.
Reference Z5814 B44 C45 (LC)
 
Davis, Lenwood G. Black Artists in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography of Books, Articles, and Dissertations on Black Artists, 1779-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.
Art/Architecture Z5956 A47 D38 (LC)
________. Black Athletes in the United States: A Bibliography of Books, Articles, Autobiographies, and Biographies on Black Professional Athletes in the United States, 1800-1981. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
SML Z7515 U5 D38 (LC)
 
__________. Blacks in the American Armed Forces, 1776-1983: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Reference Z1249 M5 D38 1985 (LC)
 
___________. The Ku Klux Klan: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
SML Z1249 K8 D38 1984 (LC)
 
Gubert, Betty Kaplan. Invisible Wings: An Annotated Bibliography on Blacks in Aviation, 1916-1993. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
SML Z5065 U5 G83X 1994 (LC)
Jenkins, Betty. Black Separatism: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.
Reference Z1361 N39 J45 (LC)
 
Joyce, Donald F. Blacks in the Humanities, 1750-1984: A Selected Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. A guide to major published and unpublished sources in English about the contributions of Black Americans in eleven disciplines of the humanities and a general works category. Disciplines include philosophy, religion, journalism, libraries and librarianship, folklore, linguistics, art, music, performing arts, literary criticism, cultural and intellectual history.
Reference Z1361 N39 J69 1986 (LC)

Helmreich, William B. Afro-Americans and Africa: Black Nationalism at the Crossroads. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Reference Z3507 +A375 II.3 (LC)

Hirtle, Peter B. Blacks in American Medicine: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources, 1970-1987: 340 Citations. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 1988.
Med/Historical Reference Hist Ref 2 ZE185 +H57 1988

Momeni, Jamshid A. Demography of the Black Population in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography with a Review Essay. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
SML Z1361 N39 M6 1983 (LC)
 
Peterson, Bernard L. The African American Theatre Directory, 1819-1960: A Comprehensive Guide to Early Black Theatre Organizations, Companies, Theatres, and Performing Groups. Westport, CT & London: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Reference PN 2270 A35 P48X 1997
 
Rodgers, Marie E. The Harlem Renaissance: An Annotated Reference Guide for Student Research. Englewood: Libraries Unlimited, 1998.
SML Ref. Z5956 A47 R64X 1998 (LC).
 
Semmes, Clovis E. Roots of Afrocentric Thought:A Reference Guide to Negro Digest/ Black World, 1961-1976. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998.
SML Ref. E185 N3815 R66X 1998 (LC).
 
Szwed, John F. Afro-American Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography of Materials from North, Central, and South America, and the West Indies. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978.
Reference Z5984 A44 +S95 (LC)
 
 

VIII. PERIODICAL INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS
 
 
A Guide to Negro Periodical Literature. Winston-Salem, NC, 1941-1946.
SML X413 +G92 Also: SML Microform Film S1069 Published February 1941-September 1946. Publication suspended March 1943-February 1946. Continued by Index to periodical articles by and about Negroes.

Index to Black Periodicals. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984-. Included are indexes to African-American periodicals of general and scholarly interest. They include citations of journal articles, literary works, and book and live and recorded performance reviews. Previous titles: Index to Periodical Articles By and About Blacks (1973-1983) and Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes (1960-1972).
Reference, Index Case AI3 I563  

Newman, Richard. Black Index: Afro-Americana in Selected Periodicals, 1907-1949. New York: Garland Pub., 1981. Over 1,000 articles taken from over 350 journals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Reference Z1361 N39 N58 (LC)

General Indexes and Abstracts
 
America: History and Life. v.0(1954/63)-v.10(1973). Santa Barbara, CA: Clio, 1964-73. The primary index to the literature of American and Canadian History, covering over 2,000 journals in 45 languages. Also includes dissertations and selected book, film and video reviews. Quarterly with annual cumulations. The print volumes are issued in four parts:
Part A. Article abstracts and citations
Part B. Index to book reviews
Part C. American History bibliography, books, articles, and dissertations
Part D. Annual Index
Volume 0 covers 1954-1963. The CD-ROM covers 1964 to the present.
Reference, Index Case Z1236 +A43 (LC)
CD-ROM located in the CD-ROM Reference Center in the nave of SML  

Arts and Humanities Search. An international interdisciplinary index to literature of the arts and humanities, covering 6,100 journals, about 1,000 fully and about 5,100 selectively. Those selectively covered are titles in the sciences and social sciences indexed by Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, from which articles of possible interest in the arts and humanities are drawn. Arts & Humanities Search is divided into three parts:
CITATION INDEX through which you can find cited references)
SOURCE INDEX through which authors are indexed
PERMUTERM SUBJECT INDEX which offers keyword access to the titles of articles
The database covers 1978 to the present.
Available online through Library Research Workstation 

ATLA Religion Database. A comprehensive database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. The file contains citations from international titles and 13,000 multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. It also includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects from ATLA's print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Though coverage is from1949 to the present, not all publications begin in 1949.
Available online through the Library Research Workstation 

Congressional Masterfile I (1789-1969). Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service. A CD-Rom resource hat provides subject, title. keyword, bill number, name access to all indexes and abstracts. 1970-present.  

Congressional Universe. 1970-present <http://www.lexis.nexis.cis.com>. A web resource that provides access by subject, title. keyword and author to US Federal Government, state government and privately published statistical material and to a microfiche collection of state and nongovernmental statisitcal publications. Some titles are hotlinked to full text documents. 

Film Index International. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1993-. This CD-ROM, produced by the British Film Institute, includes cast lists, summaries, and citations to articles about 90,000 films and 30,000 persons, 1930-present.
SML CD-ROM Reference Center, Workstation 1

MLA Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association of American, 1921- . The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The database (online and CD-ROM) provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. The print volumes go back to 1921 and the database covers from 1963 to the present. The MLA Bibliography continues the Modern Language Association Annual Bibliography. For earlier volumes, check the SML Card Catalog under "Modern Language Association."
Reference, Index Case Z7006 M63
Available online through the Library Research Workstation. 

Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-1899. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1944. 2 vol. An author, subject, and illustrator index to articles and reviews appearing in 51 periodicals published in the U.S. and U.K. between 1890 and 1899. Fourteen titles were indexed beyond 1899 in order to make the indexing of each title complete from the year 1890 to the time it was added to the list of one of the current Wilson indexes. Broad subject coverage. Book reviews are listed under author only.
Reference, Index Case AI3 R43

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI Web). An electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed by title, author, and PCI heading. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other western languages. PCI Web currently indexes over six million articles in 2,006 journals. Every year, it adds records for more than two million articles. There is no print equivalent to the online index.
Available online through Databases & Article Searching

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1905-. An author and subject index to articles, literary works, and book and live and recorded performance reviews published in popular English language periodicals with broad subject coverage.
Reference, Index Case AI1 R43

Social Sciences Index. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1974/75-.
Reference, Index Case AI1 S633 (LC)  

Women's Resources International. Baltimore, MD: National Information Services Corp. (NISC), c1989,1996- . Women's Resources International is a collection of ten electronic files with 200,000 records pertaining to women's studies, including Women Studies Abstracts (1972-present).
Available online through the Library Research Workstation

Women Studies Abstracts. Rush, NY: Rush Pub., 1972-. Abstracts of articles and reviews published in U.S. and foreign journals, newsletters, and magazines having a women studies focus. The broad subject coverage includes the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
Reference Z7962 W65

IX. NEWSPAPER INDEXES

African-American Newspapers: The 19^th Century. Malvern, PA: Accessible Archives, 1997-. This is a searchable CD-ROM which will eventually contain the complete texts of over fifty nineteenth century African-American Newspapers. Part 1 offers Freedom's Journal, 1827-1830; Colored American, 1837-1842; The North Star, 1847-1851; and National Era, 1847-1860.
SML Electronic Text Center, SML 509

Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals. Ed. John W. Blassingame, Mae G. Henderson. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980-1984. 5v. Volume I. Annotated index of letters in the Philanthropist, (Mt. Pleasant, OH); Emancipator, (Jonesborough, TN); Genius of Universal Emancipation; Abolition Intelligencer, (Shelbyville, KY); African Observer, (Philadelphia) and The Liberator, (Boston) 1831-1845. Volume II. Annotated index of letters in The Liberator, (Boston) 1846-1865; Anti-Slavery Record, (New York); Human Rights, (New York); and the Observer, (St. Louis). Volume III. Annotated index of letters in the Friend of Man, (Utica, NY) Pennsylvania Freeman; Advocate of Freedom, (Hallowell, ME); and American & Foreign Anti-slavery Reporter, (New York). Volume IV. Annotated index of letters in the National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1840-1860. Volume V. Annotated index of letters in the National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1861-1871.
Reference, Index Case AI3 A58 (LC) 

Black Newspapers Index. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1987-. Continues Index to Black Newspapers, 1977-1986. Indexes citations for and includes brief abstracts for book, motion picture, and musical recordings reviews; editorials; obituaries and other general interest articles published in the Afro-American (Baltimore and Washington, DC); New York Amsterdam News; Chicago Defender; Journal and Guide (Norfolk, VA); Los Angeles Sentinal; Michigan Chronicle and Muslim Journal (Chicago).
Reference, Index Case AI3 +I45 (LC)

Ethnic Newswatch. Stamford, CT: Softline Information, Inc., 1991-. Datafile. Full text database containing ethnic and minority press newspapers and periodicals.
SML, Microform Reading Room, CD ROM.

Index to Black Newspapers. Wooster, Ohio: Indexing Center, UMI, 1977-1986.
Reference, Index Case AI3 I45 (LC)
Jacobs, Donald Martin. Antebellum Black Newspapers: Indices to New York Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), The Rights of All (1829), The Weekly Advocate (1837), and The Colored American (1837-1841). Westport: Greenwood Press, 1976.
Reference, Index Case E185.5 J34 (LC) Also: SML Stacks
 
Pennsylvania Gazette. Malvern, PA: Accessible Archives, 1991-. Searchable database of Pennsylvania Gazette articles from 1728-1800. Provides illustrations from the paper as well.
SML Electronic Text Center, SML 509
 

X. GUIDES TO NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
 
 
Afro-American Newspapers on Microfilm. Yale University Library, July, 1992. [Unpublished listing of newspapers at Yale.] Most of the newspapers listed in the work above are available on microfilm in the Early American Newspapers collection shelved in the Microform Room. Ask at SML Reference Desk.
Also: Microform Reading Room 

American Newspapers, 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada. Ed. Winifred Gregory. New York: Kraus, 1967.
SML Z6945 A48 1967 (LC) Also: Andrews Study
 
Brigham, Clarence S. History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976, 1975. Most of the newspapers in this work are available on microfilm in the Early American Newspapers collection shelved in the Microform Reading Room.
Reference Z6951 +B75 (LC)

Bryl, Susan. Black Periodicals and Newspapers. 1975.
SML Z1361 N39 +B79 (LC)
 
Campbell, Georgetta Merritt. Extant Collections of Early Black Newspapers: A Research Guide to the Black Press, 1880-1915, With an Index to the Boston Guardian, 1902-1904. Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing Co., 1981.
Reference Z6944 N39 C35 (LC)
 
Daniel, Walter C. Black Journals of the United States: Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Reference PN4882.5 D36
 
Henritze, Barbara K. Bibliographic Checklist of African American Newspapers. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1995.
Reference Z6944 N39 +H46X 1995 (LC)
Newspapers in Microform: United States, 1948-1983. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1984.
Reference Z6951 U469 (LC) Also: Microforms, Catalog Ref. Desk
 

 
XI. BOOK REVIEW SOURCES
 
 
Book Review Digest. New York: HW Wilson, 1905-. Book Review Digest is a bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts from reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books. An abstract of the book is also provided. Book Review Digest indexes reviews from approximately 100 leading periodicals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The online version of Book Review Digest covers the years 1983 to the present and is updated monthly.
Reference, Index Case Z12 19 B66
Available online through Databases & Article Searching
 

Book Review Index. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1965-
Reference, Index Case Z1035 A1 B66 (LC)
 
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974. Ed. Evan Ira Farber. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1982-1984.
Reference Z1035 A1 +C63 (LC)
 
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974. Ed. Evan Ira Farber. Arlington, Va.: Carrolton Press, 1979-1982.
Reference Z1035 A1 +C64 (LC)
 
 
XII. DISSERTATIONS
 
 
Comprehensive Dissertation Index. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1972-.
Reference Z5055 U49 +D77 (LC)
 
Dissertation Abstracts International. A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1969-. Lists Dissertations accepted for the Ph.D. and other doctoral degrees by American and Canadian degree-granting institutions. Dates of coverage 1861 to the present. Coverage is identical for all formats, although the CD-ROM and online versions of the database do not include abstracts for dissertations prior to 1981. Issued in three parts after 1969:
* Dissertation Abstracts International. Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences (1969-present)
Reference Z5055 +U49 +D57 (LC)
* Dissertation Abstracts International. Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences (1969-present)
* Dissertation Abstracts International. Section B: Sciences and Engineering (1969-present)
* Dissertation Abstracts International. Section C: European Abstracts (1976-1988) and Dissertation
Available online through Databases & Article Searching

Abstracts International. Section C: Worldwide (1989-present)
See also American Doctoral Dissertations (Z5055 +U49 A62 (LC))
 

Peebles, Joan B. A Bibliography of Doctoral Research on the Negro, 1967-1977. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1978(?). A supplement to A Bibliography of Research on the Negro, 1935 [i.e., 1933]-1966, compiled by Earle H. West. Annotations not provided.
Reference Z1361 N39 +W47 Suppl. 2 (LC)

West, Earle H. A Bibliography of Doctoral Research on the Negro,1933-1966. Washington, DC: Xerox, 1969. Nearly 1,500 dissertations arrange in seven major categories. Citations are drawn from American Doctoral Dissertations and Dissertation Abstracts. Very brief annotations are provided for the citations taken from Dissertation Abstracts.
Reference Z1361 N39 +W47 (LC) 
 
 

Ash, Lee. Subject Collections: A College, Public, and Special Libraries and Museums in the United States and Canada. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1985.
Reference Z688 A2 +A83 1985 (LC)
 
DeWitt, Donald L. Guides to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Reference CD3022 A2 D48X 1994 (LC)
 
__________. ArticlesDescribing Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Reference CD3022 A2 D478X 1997 (LC)
 
An Index to Microform Collections. Ed. Ann Niles. Westport, CT: Meckler Pub., 1984.
Microform Reference Z1033 M5 +I53 1984 (LC)
 
Index to Personal Names in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, 1959-1984. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1988.
Reference Z6620 U5 +I53 1988 (LC)

Library of Congress. Special Collections in the Library of Congress: A Selective Guide. Washington, DC: The Library; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1980.
Reference Z733 U58 U54 1980 (LC)
 
National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States. Phoenix: Oryx, 1988.
Reference CD3020 +D49 1988 (LC)

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1959/61.
Reference Z6620 U5 +N37 (LC)
 
Special Collections in College and University Libraries. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1989.
Reference Z731 +S73 1989 (LC)
 
U.S. National Historical Publications Commission. Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States. Ed. Phillip M. Hamer. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961.
Reference CD3022 A16 (LC)
 
XIV. LIBRARY CATALOGS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
 
Ball, Wendy. Rare Afro-Americana: A Reconstruction of the Adger Library. [Wellesley College] Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1981.
Reference Z1361 N39 B3 (LC)
 
Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1975-.
Reference Z881 N592 +S353 (LC)
Issued by the Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture. Supplement to: Schomburg
Collection of Negro Literature and History.
 
Brown, Rae Linda. Music, Printed and Manuscript, in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters: An Annotated Catalog. [Beinecke Rare Book Library, Yale University] New York: Garland Pub., 1982.
Music Reference ML136 N566 Y1
 
The Chicago Afro-American Union Analytic Catalog. An Index to Materials on the Afro-American in the Principal Libraries of Chicago. Housed in the Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American History and Literature at the George Cleveland Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1972.
Reference Z1361 N39 +C45 (LC)
 
Clark, Edward. Black Writers in New England: A Bibliography with Biographical Notes, of Books By and About Afro-American Writers Associated with New England in the Collection of Afro-American Literature, Suffolk University, Museum of Afro-American History, Boston African American National Historic Site. Boston: National Park Service, 1985.
SML Z1229 N39 C57 1985 (LC)
 
Fisk University, Nashville. Library. Dictionary Catalog of the Negro Collection of the Fisk University Library, Nashville, Tennessee. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1974.
Reference Z1361 N39 +F57 (LC)
 
___________. Fisk University Theses, 1917-1942, Available for Interlibrary Loan. Nashville, TN: Fisk University Library, 1942.
SML Xa56 F52 +942
 
___________. A List of Manuscripts, Published Works and Related Items in the Charles Waddell Chestnut Collection of the Erastus Milo Cravath Memorial Library, Fisk University. Nashville, TN: Fisk University, 1954.
Beinecke, James Weldon Johnson Collection Zan C425 Q954f
 
Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. Collis P. Huntington Library. A Classified Catalogue of the Negro Collection in the Collis P. Huntington Library, Hampton Institute. Comp. Mentor A. Howe, Roscoe E. Lewis. Hampton, VA: Hampton Institute, 1940.
Reference Z1361 N39 +H35 (LC)
 
Heath, Trudy. Slavery and Anti-slavery Pamphlets: An Index to the Microfilm Collection. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1979.
SML Z7164 S6 +H42 (LC)
 
Howard University, Washington, D.C. Library. Moorland Foundation. Dictionary Catalog of the Jesse E. Moorland Collection of Negro Life and History, Howard University, Washington, DC. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1970.
Reference Z1361 N39 +H68 (LC)
 
Howard University, Washington, D.C. Masters' Theses, Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master's Degree at Howard University, 1918-1945. Comp. Dorothy B. Porter. Washington, DC: 1946.
SML Xa56 H83 946h
 
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. The American Colonization Society: A Register of its Records in the Library of Congress. Washington, DC: The Library, 1979.
SML Z1249 S6 +U54 1979 (LC)
 
Maival, Fritz J. A Guide to the Archives of Hampton Institute. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
SML CD3569 H364 M35 1985 (LC)
 
Milton S. Eisenhower Library. The Birney Anti-Slavery Collection of the Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Md.: M. S. Eisenhower Library, Special Collections Division, 1985.
SML Z1249 S6 +M54 1985 (LC)
 
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. Library. The Glen Carrington Collection: A Ruide to the Books, Manuscripts, Music, and Recordings. Washington, DC: Howard University, 1977.
SML Z5961 U5 +M66 1977 (LC)
 
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center. Register of the Sam DeVincent Collection o f Illustrated American Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1980. Series 3: African-American Music, ca. 1828-1980. Washington, DC: Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1989.
Music ML136 W3715 N27 D4+ Ser.3
 
Newman, Debra L. Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National Archives. Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, General Services Administration, 1984.
Reference Z1361 N39 N576 1984 (LC)
 
Oberlin College Library. A Classified Catalogue of the Collection of Anti-slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library. Comp. Julian S. Fowler. Oberlin, OH: The Library, 1932.
Law BiblB Ob25
 
Old Slave Mart Museum, Charleston, S. C. Catalog of the Old Slave Mart Museum and Library, Charleston, South Carolina. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.
Reference Z1361 N39 +O43 (LC)
 
Philadelphia. Library Company. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906: Author Catalog of the Library Catalog of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1973.
Reference Z1361 N39 +P45 1973 (LC)
 
Plunkett, Michael. Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990.
SML Z1361 N39 P496 1990 (LC)
 
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1962. [Suppl. 1, 1967; Suppl. 2, 1972.]
Reference Z881 N592 +S353 (LC)
Supplemented by the Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies.
 
Spencer, Jon Michael. As the Black School Sings: Black Music Collections at Black Universities and Colleges With a Union List of Book Holdings. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
MUSIC ML128 A2 S7

Temple University Libraries. Catalogue of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection of the Temple University Libraries. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1990.
Reference Z1361 N39 +T39 1990 (LC)
 
Thackery, David T. Afro-American Family History at the Newberry Library: A Research Guide and Bibliography. Chicago: The Library, 1988.
SML Z1361 N39 +T48X 1988 (LC)
 
Von Salis, Susan J. Revealing Documents: A Guide to African American Manuscript Sources in the Schlesinger Library and the Radcliffe College Archives. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1993.
SML Z1361 N39 V66X 1993 (LC)
 
Wilson, Greta S. Guide to Processed Collections in the Manuscript Division of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. [Washington, DC]: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, 1983.
Divinity Stack Reference Z1361 N39 W57 1983 (LC)
 
Xavier University of Louisiana. Guide to the Heartman Manuscripts on Slavery. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1982.
SML Z1249 S6 X38 1982 (LC)
 
 
XV. MICROFORM COLLECTIONS & DATA FILES
 
 
Microform Collections

American Missionary Association Manuscripts, 1839-1882. 261 reels. Film MISC 627
 
Anti-slavery Collection: 18th-19th Centuries, From the Library of the Society of Friends, 1760-1978 (inclusive). 25 reels. Film MISC 1138
 
Anti-slavery Materials: Regional Records and Other Pamphlets, 18th-19th Centuries: The Collection at John Rylands University Library, Manchester. Film B14879
 
Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865. 17 reels. Film MISC 912
Correspondence, speeches, sermons, missionary reports, etc. of several hundred 19th century black abolitionists.
 
Civil Rights During the Johnson Administration. 69 reels. Film MISC 1002
 
Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963. Part 2, Papers of Burke Marshall, Asst. Attorney General for Civil Rights. 28 reels. LAW Film 141
 
Civil Rights During the Nixon Administration, 1969-1974. Part 1, White House Central Files. 46 reels. LAW Film 155 and 141
 
Communist Infiltration of the SCLC, FBI Investigation File, 1957-1983. 9 reels. Film MISC 1017
 
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Papers, 1959-1976. 80 reels. Film MISC 1007
 
Du Bois, W. E. B. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Papers, 1803-1968 (inclusive), 1877-1963 (bulk). 89 reels. Film MISC 932
 
Facts on Film. [Civil Rights & Race Relations] Nashville: Southern Education Reporting Service. Film S147
 
FBI file on Malcolm X. 10 reels. Film B16086
 
Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans: The First World War, the Red Scare, and the Garvey Movement 1917-1925. 25 reels. Film MISC 1082
 
Federal Writers' Project. Slave narratives: a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves. [type-written records prepared by the FWP, 1936-1938] Washington, 1941. Microform Fiche B930
 
Frederick Douglas Papers, 1862-1895. 34 reels. Film MISC 720
 
Brown vs. Board of Education Collection, 1950-1975. Kluger, Richard. [inclusive] Film MS759
 
Lewis Tappan Papers, 1809-1903. 7 reels. Film MISC 772
 
Malcolm X Surveillance Files, 1953-1971. 2 reels. Film MISC 811
 
Marcus Garvey: FBI Investigation File, 1921-1926. 1 reel. Film MISC 1018
 
The Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI File, 1958-1977. 25 reels. Film MISC 981
 
Mary Church Terrell Papers, 1886-1954. 34 reels. (Founder and first president of National Association of Colored Women; educator, political campaigner.) Film MISC 1001
 
Maryland State Colonization Society Papers, 1827-1894. 31 reels. Film MISC 1213
 
Muriel and William Peters Collection, 1817-1968. (Material on Amistad captives.) 16 reels. Film MISC 910
 
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Papers of the NAACP 1909-1955. Film MISC 960
 
The Negro in the Military Service of the United States, 1639-1886. 5 reels. Compiled for publication by the Colored Troops Division; includes published and unpublished primary source documents. Film 94 T-823 

Washington, Booker T. Papers of Booker T. Washington: Series 1-4, 1864-1950. [inclusive] Film MISC 1009

Data Files

Fogel, Robert Willaim. Slave Hires, 1775-1865 [computer file] Ann Arbor: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 1976.
SSL Social Science Data Archive Data Doc E442 F63 (LC)
 
__________. Slave Sales and Appraisals, 1775-1865. [computer file] Ann Arbor: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1976.
SSL Social Science Data Archive Data Doc E442 F634 (LC)
 
 
XVI: ELECTRONIC FULL TEXTS
 
 
The Yale University Library Electronic Text Center provides members of the Yale community with access to electronic texts, multi-media resources, and web development tools. Many of these resources are accessible only in the ETC, from stand-alone workstations, but a growing number of texts are available over the Internet (please note that access may be restricted to Yale affiliates). Located in room 509 of Sterling Memorial Library, the ETC is open Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 1:00-5:00 and Wednesday and Friday from 11:30-5:00.
 
Listed below is a sampling of the holdings in the ETC relevant to African-American Studies.
 
African-American Newspapers: The 19^th Century. This is a searchable CD-ROM that will eventually contain the complete texts of over fifty nineteenth-century African-American Newspapers. The first part offers Freedom's Journal, 1827-1830; Colored American, 1837-1842; The North Star, 1847-1851; and National Era, 1847-1860.
 
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900. A collection of more than 2,500 poems written by African-Americans in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poets include such widely known figures as Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar as well as many lesser known writers, and the poems explore a multitude of topics, including abolition, children, civil rights, education, political topics, prejudice, and slavery. For more information, look at the Database of African-American Poetry website. You can also connect to the Database of African-American Poetry online (requires Yale IP) from the Research Workstation.
 
Apartheid & the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa.
 
The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective. The Civil War as seen through the newspapers of the times. Search for names, places, words, and phrases. View illustrations taken from the papers themselves.
 
Letters of Delegates to Congress
 
Pennsylvania Gazette. (1728-1800) A searchable database of Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper articles from colonial times. Provides illustrations from the paper as well.
 
General U.S. Full-Text Sources: Sourcebook of American History; U.S. Foreign Affairs; U.S. History; Who Built America?