African-American Studies: Bibliography of Reference Books

REFERENCE WORKS IN THE FIELD OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES HELD BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

(Updated 1/19/96)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. GENERAL: Handbooks, Bibliographies, Biographical Sources, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Directories, Statistics, Maps, Quotations, Indexes

  2. LITERATURE: Bibliographies, Biographical Sources, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Indexes

  3. HISTORY: Bibliographies, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Statistics, Indexes, Chronologies

  4. RELIGION: Bibliographies, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Directories

  5. LANGUAGE: Bibliographies, Dictionaries

  6. MUSIC and ART: Bibliographies, Biographical Sources, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Directories, Indexes

  7. FILM and THEATRE: Bibliographies, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Directories, Indexes

  8. SOCIAL SCIENCES: Bibliographies, Directories

  9. SPORTS: Bibliographies, Biographical Sources

  10. CATALOGS OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

  11. GUIDES TO INDIVIDUAL ARCHIVAL AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

GENERAL

Handbooks

Pryor, LaRita Booth. The African-American Writer's Survival Handbook: how and where to get Published. Wakefield: Longwood Academic, 1991. BUTLER REFERENCE R029.6 P943

Bibliographies

Brignano, Russell C. Black Americans in Autobiography: an Annotated Bibliography of Autobiographies and Autobiographical Books Written since the Civil War. Rev. ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1984. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 B7681

Black Access: a Bibliography of Afro-American Bibliographies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 N467

Black American Culture and Society: an Annotated Bibliography. New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 1994. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 B563

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: Whitston Pub. Co., 1981. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.071 C15

Davis, Lenwood G. A Bibliographical Guide to Black Studies Programs in the United States: an Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 D29434

Davis, Lenwood G. Black-Jewish Relations in the United States, 1752-1984: a Selected Bibliography. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1984. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 D294

Davis, Nathaniel. Afro-American Reference: an Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 D295

Early Black Bibliographies, 1863-1918. New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1982. BUTLER STACKS Z1361 .N39 E25 1982

Guide to Scholarly Journals in Black Studies. Chicago, IL: Chicago Center for Afro-American Studies and Research, 1981. LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK REFERENCE Z1361 .N39 G83

Hill, George H.Black Media in America: a Resource Guide. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, c1984. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 H552

Images of Blacks in American Culture: a Reference Guide to Information Sources. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1988. BUTLER REFERENCE R326.8 Im1

Joyce, Donald F. Blacks in the Humanities, 1750-1984: a Selected Annotated Bibliography. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1986. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 J85

LaBrie, Henry G. The Black Press: a Bibliography. Kennebunkport, ME: Mercer House Press, 1973. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 L11

Miller, Elizabeth W.The Negro in America: a Bibliography. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 M611

Perry, Margaret. The Harlem Renaissance: an Annotated Bibliography and Commentary. New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1982. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 P42

Potter, Vilma Raskin.A Reference Guide to Afro- American Publications and Editors, 1827-1946. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1993. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.05 P85

Redfern, Bernice.Women of Color in the United States: A guide to the Literature. New York, NY: Garland, 1989. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.396 R246

Snorgrass, J. William.Blacks and Media: a Selected Annotated Bibliography, 1962-1982. Talahassee, FL: University Presses of Florida, c1985. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 Sn56

Stevenson, Rosemary M.Index to Afro-American Reference Resources. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 St48

Thompson, Julius Eric.The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865-1985. Gainsville, FL: University Press of Florida, c1993. BUTLER STACKS Z1361 .N39 T52 1993

Weiss, Ellen B.An Annotated Bibliography of African- American Architects and Builders. Philadelphia, PA: Society of Architectural Historians, 1993. AVERY REFERENCE AA705 W43

Williams, Ora. American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences. 3rd ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.396 W671

Young, Tommie M.Afro-American Genealogy Sourcebook. New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1987. BUTLER STACKS E185.96 .Y67 1987

Biographical Sources

African-American Business Leaders: a Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, c.1994 BUTLER STACKS HC102.5 .A2 I52 1994

African American Women: a Biographical Dictionary. New York, NY: Garland, 1993. BUTLER REFERENCE R041 Af83

African Muslims in Antebellum America: a Sourcebook. New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1984. BUTLER STACKS E444.A25 1984

Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950. Microform. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1987. BUTLER REFERENCE MICFICHE FX 3 4080 (1068 microfiches and guide) Cumulative Index. BUTLER REFERENCE R041 B561

Hawkins, Walter L. African American Biographies: Profiles of 558 Current Men and Women and African American Biographies 2: Profiles of 332 Current Men and Women. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, c1992 and 1994. BUTLER REFERENCE R041 H394

Logan, Rayford Whittingham. Dictionary of American Negro Biography. New York, NY: Norton, 1982. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R41 L828

Notable Black American Women. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1992. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R041 N843

Who's Who among Black Americans. Northbrook, IL: Who's Who among Black Americans, Inc., Pub. Co. 8th ed. 1994/95. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R041 W6855

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

The African-American Almanac. 6th ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, c1994. LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK REFERENCE E185 .A37 1994g

The African American Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Marshall Cavedish, c1993. 6 vols. BARNARD REFERENCE E185 .A253 1993

The Black American Reference Book. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1976. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R326 B56

Black Resource Guide. Washington, DC: Ben Johnson. Latest volume in BUTLER REFERENCE E185.5 .B568

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan Library Reference; London: Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall Int., 1996. BUTLER REFERENCE R326.8 En19

Encyclopedia of Black America. New York, NY: Mc Graw- Hill, c1981. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R326 En19

The Negro Almanac: a Reference Work on the African American. 5th ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, c1989. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R326 N311

Reference Library of Black America. Detroit, MI: Gale Research; s.l.: Distributed by Afro-American Press, c1994. 5 vols. BUTLER REFERENCE R325 R251

Directories

Black Americans Information Directory. Detroit, MI: Gale Research. Latest volume in BUTLER REFERENCE E185.5 .B513

Black Firsts. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1994. BUTLER REFERENCE R326 B564

Crayton, Tabitha. The African-American Address Book. New York, NY: Berkley Pub. Group, 1995. BUTLER REFERENCE R326 C857

Directory of African and African-American Studies in the United States. 8th ed. Atlanta, GA: African Studies Association Press, 1993. LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK REFERENCE DT19.9 .U5 D5611

Johnson, Ben. Who's What and Where: a Directory and Reference book on America's Minority Journalists. 2nd ed. Columbia, MO: Who's What and Where, 1988. JOURNALISM REFERENCE PN4882.5 .J6 1988g

LaBrie, Henry G. A Survey of Black Newspapers in America. Kennebunkport, ME: Mercer House Press, c1979. BUTLER REFERENCE R070.973 L1143

Statistics

Black Americans: a Profile. . DOCUMENTS SERVICE CENTER C 3.205/8:93-2

Black Americans: a Statistical Sourcebook. Boulder, CO: Numbers and Concepts, 1990- . BUTLER REFERENCE R326.8 B56

Matney, William C. America's Black Population, 1970 to 1982: a Statistical View. Washington, DC: US Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, <1983>. DOCUMENT SERVICE CENTER C3.268:83-1

1990 Census of Population. Characteristics of the Black Population. Washington, DC: US Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Admin., Bureau of the Census, <1994>. DOCUMENTS SERVICE CENTER C 3.223/10:1990 CP-3-6

Maps

The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans. New York, NY: Macmillan; Toronto: Collier Macmillan; New York: Maxwell Macmillan Internat'l., c1991. BUTLER REFERENCE R326.8 As13

Quotations

DuBois, W.E.B. The World of W.E.B. Du Bois: a Quotation Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 D8533

My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget: a Collection of Quotations by People of Color. Ed. by Dorthy Winbush Riley. New York, NY: Harper Collins, c1993. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R808.8 M99

Talking Drums: an African-American Quote Collection. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995. BUTLER REFERENCE On Order

Indexes

Black Newspapers Index. Wooster, OH: Bell and Howell, 1977-1992. BUTLER REFERENCE On Order.

The Black Women Oral History Project: a Guide to the Transcripts. Cambridge, MA: Radcliffe College, 1987. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.396 B56

Index to Black Newspapers. Wooster, OH: Indexing Center UMI, 1977- . BUTLER REFERENCE R070 In25

Index to Black Periodicals. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1973- . BUTLER REFERENCE R050 AIn211

Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986 - From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub., 1992. 5 vols. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 K128

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. 3rd ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, c1980- . 2 vols. BUTLER REFERENCE R040 Sp71

Thomison, Dennis. The Black Artist in America: an Index to Reproductions. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991. FINE ARTS REFERENCE N6538 T36

LITERATURE

Bibliographies

Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1790-1975: a Guide to Information Sources. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1979. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 Af85

Arata, Esther Spring. Black American Playwrights, 1800 to the Present: a Bibliography. Metuchen, Scarecrow Press, 1976. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.812 Ar15

Arata, Esther Spring. More Black American Playwrights: a Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.812 Ar153

Bassett, John Earl. Harlem in Review: Critical Reactions to Black American Writers, 1917-1939. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna Univ. Press; London: Associated University Presses, c1992. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 B29

Black-American Writers: Bibliographical Essays. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1978. 2 vols. BUTLER REFERENCE R810.9 B56

Essential Bibliography of American Fiction -- Modern African American Writers. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1993. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.813 M723

Fairbanks, Carol. Black American Fiction: a Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 F15

The French Critical Reception of African-American Literature from the Beginnings to 1970: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 F114

Foster, Mamie Marie Booth. Southern Black Creative Writers, 1829-1953: Biobibliographies. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1988. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 F815

Glikin, Ronda. Black American Women in Literature: a Bibliography, 1976-1987. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 1989. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 G498

Hatch, James V. Black Playwrights, 1823-1977: an Annotated Bibliography of Plays. New York, NY: Bowker, 1977. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.812 H28

Houston, Helen Rugh. The Afro-American Novel, 1965- 1975: a Descriptive Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Material. Troy, NY: Whitston, 1977. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R016.81 H818

Jordan, Casper LeRoy. A Bibliographical Guide to African- American Women Writers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 J761

Kinnamon, Keneth. A Richard Wright Bibliography: Fifty Years of Criticism and Commentary, 1933-1982. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1988. BUTLER REFERENCE R812W93 AK

Margolies, Edward. Afro-American Fiction, 1853-1976: a Guide to Information Sources. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1979. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.813 M33

Matthews, Geraldine O.Black American Writers, 1773-1949: a Bibliography and Union List. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1975. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 M43

Mikolyzk, Thomas A. Langston Hughes: a Bio-Bibliography. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1990. BUTLER REFERENCE R812H876 AM58

Newby, James Edward. Black Authors: a Selected Annotated Bibliography. New York, NY: Garland, 1991 BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 N429

Peavy, Charles D. Afro-American Literature and Culture since World War II: a Guide to Information Sources. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., c1979. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 P329

Rush, Theressa Gunnels. Black American Writers Past and Present: a Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R041 R895

Southgate, Robert L. Black Plots and Black Characters: a Handbook for Afro-American Literature. Syracuse, NY: Gaylord Professional Publications, 1979. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 So88

Werner, Craig Hansen. Black American Women Novelists: an Annotated Bibliography. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1989. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.813 W495

Whitelow, Roger. Black American Literature; a Critical History with a 1,520 Title Bibliography of Works Written by and about Black Americans. Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: Nelson Hall, 1976. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 W59

Whiteman, Maxwell. A Century of Fiction by American Negroes, 1853-1952: a Descriptive Bibliography. Philadelphia, PA: A. Saifer, 1968, BARNARD REFERENCE Z1361 .N39 W5 1968

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, NY: Oxford University Press, 1991. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 Y38

Biographical Sources

Afro-American Fiction Writers after 1955. Dictionary of Literary Biography, v.33. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1984. BUTLER REFERENCE R040 D564 v.33

Afro-American Poets since 1955. Dictionary of Literary Biography, v.41. Detroit MI: Gale Research Co., c1985. BUTLER REFERENCE R040 D564 v.41

Afro-American Writers after 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography, v.38. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1985. BUTLER REFERENCE R040 D564 v.38

Afro-American Writers before the Harlem Renaissance. Dictionary of Literary Biography, v.50. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1986. BUTLER REFERENCE R040 D564 v.50

Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. Dictionary of Literary Biography, v.51. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., c1987. BUTLER REFERENCE R040 D564 v.51

Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955. Dictionary of Literary Biography, v.76. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, c1988. BUTLER REFERENCE R040 D564 v.76

Black Writers: a Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, c1994. BUTLER STACKS PN490 .B52 1994g

Black American poets and Dramatists Before the Harlem Renaissance. New York, NY: Chelsea House, c1994. BUTLER REFERENCE R041 B562

Black American Prose Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. New York, NY: Chelsea House, c1994. BUTLER REFERENCE R041 B5611

Modern Black Writers. Compiled and edited by Michael Popkin. 2 vols. New York, NY: Ungar, c1978-1995. BUTLER REFERENCE R809 M72.

Page, James Allen. Selected Black American Authors: an Illustrated Bio-bibliographical Dictionary. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1977. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 P14

Peterson, Bernard L. Contemporary Black American Playwrights and their Plays: a Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1988. BUTLER REFERENCE R041 P442

Peterson, Bernard L. Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers: a Biographical Directory and Catalog of Plays, Films, and Broadcasting Scripts. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1990. BUTLER REFERENCE R041 P4423

Rollock, Barbara. Black Authors and Illustrators of Children's books: a Biographical Dictionary. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Garland, 1992. LIBRARY SERVICE Z1037 .R63 1992

Roses, Lorraine Elena. The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1990. BUTLER STACKS PS153 .N5 R65 1990

Shockley, Ann Allen. Living Black American Authors: a Biographical Dictionary. New York, NY: Bowker, 1973. BUTLER REFERENCE R41 SH72

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

African American Writers. New York, NY: C. Scribner's Sons; Toronto: Collier Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 Af83

Masterpieces of African-American Literature. New York, NY: HarperCollins, c1992. BUTLER REFERENCE R810.9 M39

Masterplots II. African American Literature Series. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, c1994. BURGESS PS153.N5 M2645 1994

Indexes

Campbell, Dorothy W. Index to Black American Writers in Collective Biographies. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1983. BUTLER REFERENCE R041 C152

Chapman, Dorothy H. Index to Poetry by Black American Women. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1986. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.811 C366

Kallenbach, Jessamine S.Index to Black American Literary Anthologies. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1979. BUTLER REFERENCE R058 K12

Yancy, Preston M. The Afro-American Short Story: a Comprehensive Annotated Index with Selected Commentaties. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.81 Y15

HISTORY

Bibliographies

Davis, Lenwood G. Blacks in the American Armed Forces, 1776-1983: a Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, c1985. LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK REFERENCE Z1249 .M5 D38 1985

Davis, Lenwood G. Marcus Garvey: an Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 G199

Dumond, Dwight Lowell. A Bibliography of Antislavery in America. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.326 D897

Fabre, Michel. Chester Himes: an Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, c1992. BUTLER STACKS Z8406.8 .F33 1992

Fisher, William Harvey. Free at Last: a Bibliography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1977. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 K58

Gubert, Betty Kaplan. Invisible Wings: an Annotated Bibliography on Blacks in Aviation, 1916-1993. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. BUTLER STACKS Z5065 .U5 G83 1994

Herod, Agustina. Afro-American Nationalism: an Annotated Bibliography of Militant Separatist and Nationalist Literature. New York, NY: Garland, 1986. LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK REFERENCE Z1361 .N39 H47 1986

Johnson, Timothy V. Malcolm X: a Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography. New York, NY: Garland Pub, 1986. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 L57

Library of Congress. The African-American Mosaic: a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. Washington, DC: The Congress, 1993. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.326 L61

McDonnell, Robert W. W.E.B. Du Bois: a Bibliography of Writings about him. Rev. ed. Whittier, CA: P.G. Partington, c1989. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 D8531

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. BUTLER REFERENCE R355.73 M722

Murphy, Harry R. Whitney M. Young, Jr.: a Guide to Information Sources in the United States. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, c1982. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.326 M95

Murray, Paul T. The Civil Rights Movement: References and Resources. New York, NY: G.K. Hall; Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.326 M96

National Archives Conference on Federal Archives as Sources for Research on Afro-Americans (1973: Washington, DC). Afro-American History: Sources for Research. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1981. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.326 N21

Olson, James Stuart. Slave Life in America: a Historiography and Selected Bibliography. Lanham: University Press of America, c1983. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.326 O18

Pyatt, Sherman E. Martin Luther King, Jr.: an Annotated Bibliography. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1968. LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK REFERENCE Z8464.44 .P9 1986

Rice, Mitchell F. Health of Black Americans from Post Reconstruction to Integration, 1871-1960: an Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Sources. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1990. BUTLER STACKS RA448.5 .N4 R52 1990

Smith, Dwight La Vern. Afro-American History: a Bibliography. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1974-81. 2 vols. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 Sm54

Wilson, Joseph. Black Labor in America, 1865-1983: a Selected Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.326 W69

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Black Women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub., c1993. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R326 B563

Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1988. BUTLER REFERENCE R326.973 D561

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: from Emancipation to the Present. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, c1992. BUTLER REFERENCE R326 En193

Grossman, Mark. The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Civil Rights Movement. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1993. BUTLER REFERENCE R326 G89

The Harlem Renaissance: a Historical Dictionary of the Era. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1984. BUTLER REFERENCE R978N48 H227

Joyce, Donald F. Black Book Publishers in the United States: a Historical Dictionary of Presses, 1817- 1990. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1991. BUTLER REFERENCE R019.41 J85

Directories

Foner, Eric. Freedom's Lawmakers: a Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993. BUTLER STACKS E185.96 .F64

Statistics

Historical Statistics of Black America. Compiled and edited by Jessie Carney Smith and Carrell Peterson Horton. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, c1995- . BUTLER REFERENCE R326.73 H62.

Minchinton, Walter E. Virginia Slave-Trade Statistics, 1698-1775. Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1984. BUTLER REFERENCE R326.1 M661

Indexes

Bergman, Peter M. Compiler. The Negro in the Congressional Record, 1789-1821. 5 vols. New York, NY: Bergman, 1969-1970. BUTLER STACKS E185 .B467 [Negro in the Continental Congress E185 .B47]

Blassingame, John W. Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals, Annotated Index of Letters.... Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, c1980-c1984. 5 vols. BUTLER REFERENCE R070 An87

Grant, Mildred Bricker. Indexes to The Competitor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. BUTLER STACKS E185.5 C82 Index

Index to the American Slave. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.326 In2

Jacobs, Donald M. 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, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1976. BUTLER REFERENCE R070 J15

Newman, Richard. Black Index: Afro-Americana in Selected Periodicals, 1907-1949. New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1981. BUTLER REFERENCE R050 AN49

Chronologies

Bergman, Peter M. The Chronological History of the Negro in America. New York, NY: Harper and Row, <1969>. BUTLER REFERENCE R326 B45

Cowan, Thomas Dale. Timelines of African-American History: 500 Years of Black Achievement. New York, NY: Berkley Pub. Group, 1994. BUTLER REFERENCE R973 C63

Diggs, Ellen Irene. Black Chronology: from 4000 B.C. to the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, c1983. BUTLER REFERENCE R326 D569

Harley, Sharon. The Timetables of African-American History: a Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in African-American History. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, c1995. BUTLER REFERENCE R326 H22

Hornsby, Alton. Milestones in 20th-Century African- American History. Detroit, MI: Visible Ink Press, c1993. BUTLER STACKS E185.6 .H82 1993

Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, c1991. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R973 H784

RELIGION

Bibliographies

Gray, John. Ashe, Traditional Religion and Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora: a Classified International Bibliography. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, c1989. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.2 G793

Richardson, Marilyn. Black Women and Religion: a Bibliography. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, c1980. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.396 R395

Williams, Ethel L. Afro-American Religous Studies: a Comprehensive Bibliography with Locations in American Libraries. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972. BUTLER STACKS Z1361 .N39 W55; LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK REFERENCE Z1361 .N39 W55

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of African American Religions. New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1993. BUTLER REFERENCE R032 En193

Directories

Directory of African American Religious Bodies: a Compendium by the Howard University School of Divinity. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1995. BUTLER REFERENCE R280 D62

LANGUAGE

Bibliographies

Brasch, Ila Wales. A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of American Black English. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.82978 B73

Dictionaries

Fab 5 Freddy. Fresh Fly Flavor: Words and Phrases of the Hip-Hop Generation. Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, <1991>. MUSIC REFERENCE PE3727 .N4 FE 1992

Holloway, Joseph E. The African Heritage of American English. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, c1993. BUTLER STACKS PE3102 .N4 H65 1993

Major, Clarence. Juba to Jive: The Dictionary of African- American Slang. New York, NY: Viking, 1994 BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R English Slang J872

Smitherman-Donaldson, Geneva. Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. BUTLER REFERENCE R English Slang Sm68

MUSIC and ART

Bibliographies

Floyd, Samuel A. Black Music Biography: an Annotated Bibliography. White Plains, NY: Kraus International Publications, c1987. MUSIC REFERENCE ML128 .B3 F6 1987

Floyd, Samuel A. Black Music in the United States: an Annotated Bibliography of Selected Reference and Research Mateials. Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publ., 1983. MUSIC REFERENCE ML128 .B45 F6 1983

Gray, John. Blacks in Classical Music: a Bibliographical Guide to Composers, Performers, and Ensembles. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, c1988. MUSIC REFERENCE ML128 .B45 G7 1988

Igoe, Lynn. 250 Years of Afro-American Art: an Annotated Bibliography. New York, NY: Bowker, 1981. FINE ARTS REFERENCE N6538 AIg6

Skowronski, JoAnn. Black Music in America: a Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981. MUSIC ML128 .B45 S6

Southern, Eileen. African-American Traditions in Song Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600's-1920: an annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1990 MUSIC REFERENCE Z5956 .A47 S68 1990

Tischler, Alice. Fifteen Black American Composers: a Bibliography of their Works. Detroit, MI: Information Coordinators, 1981. MUSIC ML106 .U3 T57

Biographical Sources

Southern, Eileen. Biographical Dictionary of Afro- American and African Musicians. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982 MUSIC REFERENCE ML105 .S67 1982

Turner, Patricia. Dictionary of Afro-American Performers: 78 RPM and Cylinder Recordings of Opera, Choral Music, and Song, c. 1900-1949. New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1990. BUTLER REFERENCE R041 T856

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Peterson, Bernard L. A Century of Musicals in Black and White: an Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works by, about, or involving African Americans. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. MUSIC REFERENCE ML102 .M88 P37 1993

Directories

Bianco, David. Heat Wave: the Motown Fact Book. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 1988. MUSIC REFERENCE ML3537 .B52 1988g

Indexes

De Lerma, Dominique-Rene. Black Music and Musicians in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music and the Harvard Dictionary of Music. Chicago, IL: Center for Black Music Research, c1989 MUSIC ML128 .A2 D3 1989g

Vann, Kimberly R. Black Music in Ebony: an Annotated Guide to the Articles on Music in Ebony Magazine, 1945-1985. Chicago, IL: Center for Black Music Research, c1990. MUSIC REFERENCE ML128 .B45 V3 1990

FILM and THEATRE

Bibliographies

Gray, John. Blacks in Film and Television: a Pan-African Bibliography of Films, Filmmakers, and Performers. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, c1990. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.80922 G793

Hyatt, Marshall. The Afro-American Cinematic Experience: an Annotated Bibliography and Filmography. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1983. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.80922 H99

Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in Black and White: a Source Book on Black Films. 2nd ed. Metuchen, NJ.: Scarecrow Press, 1995. BUTLER REFERENCE R809.22 S48

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Bogle, Donald. Blacks in American Films and Television: an Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1988. BUTLER REFERENCE DESK R809.22 B634

Woll, Allen L. Dictionary of the Black Theatre: Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Selected Harlem Theatre. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983. BUTLER REFERENCE R810.128 W83

Chronologies

Sampson, Henry T. The Ghost Walks: a Chronological History of Blacks in Show Business, 1865-1910. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, c1988. BUTLER REFERENCE R809.2 Sa48

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Bibliographies

Black Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States: an Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 B56

Davis, Lenwood G. The Black Family in the United States: a Revised, Updated, Selectively Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 D29451

Dittemore, Margaret. The Higher Education of Women in the South: an Annotated Bibliography. New Orleans, LA: Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University, c1992. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.396 D636

Evans, Brenda J. Black Males in the United States: an Annotated Bibliography from 1967-1987. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, c1988. PSYCHOLOGY REFERENCE Z1361 .N39 E93 1988

Hall, Christine C. Iijima. Black Females in the United States: a Bibliography from 1967 to 1987. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, c.1989. PSYCHOLOGY REFERENCE Z1361 .N39 H27 1989

Herod, Agustina. Afro-American Nationalism, an Annotated Bibliography of Militant, Separatist and Nationalis Literature. New York, NY: Garland, 1986. LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK REFERENCE Z1361 .N39 H47 1986

Hay, Frederick J. African-American Community Studies from North America: a Classified, Annotated Bibliography. New York, NY: Garland, 1991. BUTLER STACKS Z1361 .N39 H37 1991

McGee, Leo. Education of the Black Adult in the United States: an Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.326 M17

Momeni, Jamshid A. Demography of the Black Population in the United States: an Annotated Bibliography with a Review Essay. Greenwood Press, 1983. LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK REFERENCE Z1361 .N39 M6 1983

Myers, Hector F. Black Child Development in America, 1927-1977: an Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK REFERENCE Z1361 .N39 M94

Nordquist, Joan. African Americans: Social and Economic Conditions: a Bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1992. LEHMAN Z7161 .C4 No.27

Nordquist, Joan. The African-American Woman, Social and Economic Conditions: a Bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1993 LEHMAN Z7161 .C4 no.32

Obudho, Robert A. Afro-American Demography and Urban Issues: a Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK REFERENCE Z1361 .N39 O29 1985

Directories

Black American Colleges and Universities: Profiles of Two-year, Four-year and Professional Schools. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1994. BUTLER REFERENCE R378.73 B561.

Directory of Black Americans in Political Science. Washington, DC: Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, American Political Science Association, 1977-. Latest edition in LEHMAN REFERENCE JA28 .D5

SPORTS

Bibliographies

Davis, Lenwood G. Black Athletes in the United States: a Bibliography of Books, Articles, Autobiographies, and Biographies on Black Professional Athletes in the United States, 1800-1991. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1981. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.796 D29

Biographical Sources

Riley, James A. The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York, NY: Carroll and Graf Publishers/Richard Gallen, 1994. BUTLER REFERENCE On Order

CATALOGS OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Amistad Research Center. Manuscript Holdings. New Orleans, LA: The Center, <1991?>. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 Am57

Black Periodicals and Newspapers: a Union List of Holdings in Libraries of the University of Wisconsin and the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. 2nd rev. ed. Madison, WI: The Society, 1979. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.05 W75

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, MA: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, c1985. DOCUMENTS SERVICE CENTER I 29.82:B 56

Guide to African-American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society. Richmond, VA: Virginia Historical Society, 1995. BUTLER STACKS Z6611 .B63 G94 1995g

Ham, Debra Newman. Selected Documents Pertaining to Black Workers among the Records of the Department of Labor and its Component Bureaus, 1902-1969. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1977 (1985 printing). DOCUMENT SERVICE CENTER GS 4.7:40

Kupperman, Kim D. A Bibliography-in-Progress of Materias by and about U.S. Women of Color from the Myra Josephs Resource Collection at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. New York, NY: The Center, 1990. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.396 K95

Malval, Fritz J. A Guide to the Archives of Hampton Institute. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. BUTLER STACKS CD3569 .H364 M35 1985

New York. Public Library. Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History. Dictionary Catalog. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1962. Supplements through 1993. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 N48 and R016.3268 N481

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. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 N46

Papers of African American Artists. Washington, DC: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, <1992>. FINE ARTS In Process

Revealing Documents: a Guide to African American Manuscript Sources in the Schlesinger Library and the Radcliffe College Archives. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1993. BARNARD REFERENCE Z6611 .B63 1993g BUTLER REFERENCE: On order

Spencer, Jon Michael. As the School Sings: Black Music Collections at Black Universities and Colleges with a Union List of Book Holdings. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1987. MUSIC ML128 .B45 S7 1987

Temple University. Library. Catalogue of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, a Unit of the Temple University Libraries. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1990. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.326 T247

United States. National Archives and Records Service. Black Studies: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1984. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 Un325

University of California, Berkeley. Library. Afro- Americana: a Research Guide to Collections at the University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley, CA: General Library and Dept. of Afro-American Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1984. BUTLER STACKS Z1361 .N39 U69 1984

Utah. University. Library. Black Bibliography. [Salt Lake City, 1974.] Supplements 1977 and 1981. BUTLER REFERENCE R016.3268 Ut; R016.3268 Ut1 Suppl.; R016.3268 Ut1 Suppl.2.

GUIDES TO INDIVIDUAL ARCHIVAL AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

A Guide to Papers of the NAACP. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, c1982. MICROFORM READING ROOM Fa7476 Guide

The Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality: Addendum 1944-68: a Guide to the Microfilm Edition. Sanford, NC: Microfilming Corp. of America, 1982. MICROFILM READING ROOM Fa 3847 Guide

Schipper, Martin. The Claude A. Barnett Papers : The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985- . MICROFORM READING ROOM Fa8069 Guide

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Papers, 1959-1972: a Guide to the Microfilm Edition. Sanford, NC: Microfilming Corp. of America, 1982. MICROFORM READING ROOM Fa3858 Guide