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Great Lives from History: African Americans

Bibliography

by Joyce A. Barnes

This bibliography offers resources about African Americans, beginning with general reference and then arranged alphabetically by areas of achievement.

General Reference Works

1 

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, and Alan Steinberg. Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African American Achievement. New York: Perennial, 2000.

2 

Baraka, Amiri, and Larry Neal, eds. Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing. 1968. Baltimore: Black Classics Press, 2007.

3 

Braithwaite, Kisha, Paula Mitchell, and Veronica G. Thomas. African American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

4 

Burg, Barbara A., et al. Guide to African American and African Primary Sources at Harvard University. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

5 

Claytor, Constance, and Joan Potter. African American Firsts: Famous, Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America. Elizabethtown, N.Y.: Pinto Press, 1994.

6 

Daley, James. Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2006.

7 

Davies, Carole E. Boyce. Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2008.

8 

Flamming, Douglas. African Americans in the West. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2009.

9 

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. The African American National Biography. 8 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

10 

Hawkins, Walter L. African American Biographies, 3: Profiles of 909 Current Men and Women. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009.

11 

Hine, Darlene Clark, and Kathleen Thompson. Encyclopedia of Black Women in America. New York: Facts On File, 1997.

12 

Hudson, Wade. Powerful Words: More than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by African Americans. New York: Scholastic, 2004.

13 

Johnson, Vernon D., and Bill Lyne. Walkin’ the Talk: An Anthology of African American Studies. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002.

14 

Kinshasa, Kwando M. African American Chronology. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006.

15 

Mallegg, Kristin B. Who’s Who Among African Americans. Detroit: Gale, 2010.

16 

Miles, Johnnie H., et al. Almanac of African American Heritage: A Book of Lists Featuring People, Places, Times, and Events That Shaped Black Culture. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2001.

17 

Mullane, Deirdre. Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing. New York: Anchor Books, 1993.

18 

Newman, Richard. Black Access: A Bibliography of Afro-American Bibliographies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.

19 

Rustavo, S. T. Black American Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Nova Science, 1994.

20 

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. African American Desk Reference. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

21 

Smith, Jessie C. Black Firsts: Four Thousand Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 2003.

22 

Smith, Jessie C., and Joseph M. Palmisano. Reference Library of Black America. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group, 2000.

23 

Stevenson, Rosemary M. Index to Afro-American Reference Resources. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988.

24 

Thompson, Kathleen, and Hilary Austin. The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Art, Architecture, and Photography

25 

Bearden, Romare, and Harry Henderson. A History of African-American Artists from 1792 to the Present. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

26 

Farris, Phoebe. Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.

27 

Jegede, Dele. Encyclopedia of African American Artists. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2009.

28 

Macklin, A. D. A Biographical History of African-American Artists, A-Z. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.

29 

Thomison, Dennis. The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1991.

30 

Weiss, Ellen B. An Annotated Bibliography of African-American Architects and Builders. Philadelphia, Pa.: Society of Architectural Historians, 1993.

31 

Williams, Ora. American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences. 3d ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1994.

32 

Willis, Deborah. Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.

33 

_______, et al. Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institute, 2007.

34 

Wilson, Dreck Spurlock. African-American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Business and Industry

35 

Ballard, Donna. DoingIt for Ourselves: Success Stories of African-American Women in Business. New York: Berkley Books, 1997.

36 

Bell, Gregory S. In the Black: A History of African Americans on Wall Street. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

37 

Biddle, Stanton F. The African-American Yellow Pages: A Comprehensive Resource Guide and Directory. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.

38 

Cobbs, Price M., and Judith L. Turnock. Cracking the Corporate Code: The Revealing Success Stories of Thirty-two African-American Executives. New York: Amacom, 2003.

39 

Dingle, Derek T. Black Enterprise Titans of the B.E. 100’s: Black CEOs Who Redefined and Conquered American Business. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

40 

Harris, Wendy, and Wendy Beech. Against All Odds: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Followed Their Hearts and Found Success. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

41 

Ingham, John N., and Lynne B. Feldman. African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

42 

Kranz, Rachel. African-American Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs. A to Z of African Americans. New York: Facts On File, 2004.

43 

Smith, Jessie C. Encyclopedia of African American Business. 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006.

44 

Walker, Juliet E. K. Encyclopedia of African American Business History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.

45 

Woodard, Michael D. Black Entrepreneurs in America: Stories of Struggle and Success. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Civil Rights and Social Activism

46 

Bowser, Benjamin P., and Louis Kushnick. Against the Odds: Scholars Who Challenged Racism in the Twentieth Century. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.

47 

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.

48 

_______. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

49 

_______. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

50 

Carrier, Jim. A Traveler’s Guide to the Civil Rights Movement. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2004.

51 

Carson, Clayborne, et al., eds. The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle. New York: Penquin, 1991.

52 

Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V. P. Franklin. Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

53 

Crawford, Vicki L., Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

54 

Gore, Dayo F., Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard. Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

55 

Hampton, Henry, Steve Fayer, and Sarah Flynn, comps. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950’s Through the 1980’s. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

56 

Marable, Manning, and Leith Mullings, eds. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African American Anthology. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

57 

Murray, Paul T. The Civil Rights Movement: References and Resources. New York: G. K. Hall, 1993.

58 

Sargent, Frederic O. The Civil Rights Revolution: Events and Leaders, 1955-1968. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2004.

59 

Sugrue, Thomas J. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. New York: Random House, 2008.

60 

Sullivan, Patricia. Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: New Press, 2009.

61 

Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. New York: Penguin, 1988.

62 

Wynn, Linda T., and Jessie C. Smith. Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience. Canton, Mich.: Visible Ink Press, 2009.

Culture and History

63 

Alexander, Leslie M., and Walter C. Rucker, eds. Encyclopedia of African American History. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2010.

64 

Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

65 

Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

66 

Asante, Molefi K., and Mark T. Mattson. The African-American Atlas: Black History and Culture—An Illustrated Reference. New York: Macmillan, 1998.

67 

Battle, Thomas C., and Donna M. Wells. Legacy: Treasures of Black History. Washington, D.C: National Geographic, 2006.

68 

Boyd, Herb. Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: Doubleday, 2000.

69 

Brosman, Catharine S. Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture: African American Culture. Detroit, Mich: Gale Cengage, 1996.

70 

Chafe, William H. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. New York: New Press, 2001.

71 

Davis, Thomas J., and Michael L. Conniff. Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

72 

Earle, Jonathan Halperin. The Routledge Atlas of African American History. New York: Routledge, 2000.

73 

Finkelman, Paul. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

74 

_______. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

75 

George, Nelson. Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980’s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes). New York: Viking, 2004.

76 

Halliburton, Warren J. Historic Speeches of African Americans. New York: F. Watts, 1993.

77 

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, 1996.

78 

Harris, Robert L., and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

79 

Higginbotham, Evelyn B., Leon F. Litwack, and Darlene C. Hine. The Harvard Guide to African-American History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

80 

Hine, Darlene C., and Jacqueline McLeod. Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

81 

Holland, Jesse J. Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History in and Around Washington, D.C. Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2007.

82 

Hornsby, Alton. A Companion to African American History. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005.

83 

_______. Milestones in Twentieth Century African-American History. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1993.

84 

Joseph, Peniel E. Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York: Henry Holt, 2006.

85 

Katz, William L. The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

86 

Kelley, Robin D. G., and Earl Lewis. To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

87 

Laird, Taneshia N., Elihu Bey, and Roland O. Laird. Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans. New York: Sterling, 2009.

88 

Maguire, Jack, and Thomas D. Cowan. Timelines of African-American History: 500 Years of Black Achievement. New York: Berkley, 1994.

89 

Marable, Manning, Nishani Frazier, and John C. McMillian. Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

90 

Mullings, Leith, Sophie Spencer-Wood, and Manning Marable. Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle. London: Phaidon Press, 2002.

91 

Painter, Nell I. Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

92 

Palmer, Colin A. Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. 6 vols. Detroit: Macmillan, 2006.

93 

Salzman, Jack, David L. Smith, and Cornel West. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. New York: Macmillan, 1996.

94 

Schneider, Mark R. African Americans in the Jazz Age: A Decade of Struggle and Promise. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

95 

Spivey, Donald. Fire from the Soul: A History of the African-American Struggle. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2003.

96 

Wright, Kai. The African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 2009.

Education

97 

Anderson, Noel S., and Haroon Kharem. Education as Freedom: African American Educational Thought and Activism. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010.

98 

Bower, Beverly L., and Mimi Wolverton. Answering the Call: African American Women in Higher Education Leadership. Sterling, Va.: Stylus, 2009.

99 

Cox, Clinton, and James Haskins. African American Teachers. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

100 

Dillihunt, Monica L., and Kenneth Maurice Tyler. Connecting the Legacies: African American Scholars in Education. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

101 

Fairclough, Adam. A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.

102 

Gasman, Marybeth, and Katherine Sedgwick. Uplifting a People: African American Philanthropy and Education. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.

103 

Jenoure, Terry. Navigators: African American Musicians, Dancers, and Visual Artists in Academe. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

104 

Wilds, Mary. I Dare Not Fail: Notable African American Women Educators. Greensboro, N.C.: Avisson Press, 2004.

Entertainment: Dance, Film, and Television

105 

Berry, Torriano, and Venise T. Berry. The A to Z of African AmericanCinema. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

106 

_______. Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007.

107 

Bogle, Donald. Blacks in American Films and Television: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1989.

108 

_______. Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood. New York: One World Ballantine Books, 2005.

109 

_______. Brown Sugar: Over One Hundred Years of America’s Black Female Superstars. New York: Continuum, 2007.

110 

Donalson, Melvin B. Black Directors in Hollywood. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.

111 

Dreher, Kwakiutl L. Dancing on the White Page: Black Women Entertainers Writing Autobiography. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.

112 

Fearn-Banks, Kathleen. The A to Z of African-American Television. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

113 

Geran, Trish. Beyond the Glimmering Lights: The Pride and Perseverance of African Americans in Las Vegas. Las Vegas: Stephens Press, 2006.

114 

Gill, Glenda E. No Surrender! No Retreat! African-American Pioneer Performers of Twentieth-Century American Theater. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

115 

Glass, Barbara S. African American Dance: An Illustrated History. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007.

116 

Hacker, Carlotta. GreatAfrican Americans in the Arts. Outstanding African Americans. New York: Crabtree, 1997.

117 

Hill, Anthony D. Pages from the Harlem Renaissance: A Chronicle of Performance. New York: P. Lang, 1996.

118 

Lotz, Rainer E. Black People: Entertainers of African Descent in Europe and Germany. Bonn: Birgit Lotz Verlag, 1997.

119 

MacDonald, Fred J. Blacks and White TV: African Americans in Television Since 1948. 2d ed. Florence, Ky.: Wadsworth, 1992.

120 

Magus, Jim. Magical Heroes: The Lives and Legends of Great African American Magicians. Marietta, Ga.: Magus Enterprises, 1995.

121 

Manchel, Frank. Every Step a Struggle: Interviews with Seven Who Shaped the African-American Image in Movies. Washington, D.C.: New Academia, 2007.

122 

Mapp, Edward. African Americans and the Oscar: Decades of Struggle and Achievement. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2008.

123 

Mask, Mia. Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

124 

Peterson, Bernard L. Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.

125 

Reed, Bill. Hot from Harlem: Twelve African American Entertainers, 1890-1960. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010.

126 

Regester, Charlene B. African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.

127 

Rennert, Richard S. Performing Artists. Profiles of Great Black Americans. New York: Chelsea House, 1994.

128 

Tanner, Jo A. Dusky Maidens: The Odyssey of the Early Black Dramatic Actress. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Journalism and Publishing

129 

Broussard, Jinx C. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists. New York: Routledge, 2004.

130 

Dawkins, Wayne. Rugged Waters:Black Journalists Swim the Mainstream. Newport News, Va.: August Press, 2003.

131 

Jackson, Ronald L., and Sonja M. Brown Givens. Black Pioneers in Communication Research. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2006.

132 

Joyce, Donald F. Black Book Publishers in the United States: A Historical Dictionary of the Presses, 1817-1990. Westport, Conn.: Greenword Press, 1991.

133 

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

134 

Streitmatter, Rodger. Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

135 

Terry, Wallace. Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America—An Oral History. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007.

136 

Wolseley, Roland Edgar. Black Achievers in American Journalism. Nashville, Tenn.: James C. Winston 1995.

Literature. See “Literary Bibliography” in this volume, pages1658-1664

Military and War

137 

Astor, Gerald. The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 1998.

138 

Brown, Edward. A Brief History of African Americans in the Military. De Soto, Tex.: Edward Rose Counseling, 1997.

139 

Buckley, Gail L. American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm. New York: Random House, 2002.

140 

Burbridge, Doris A. D. V., et al. African-Americans in the Military: World War I and World War II, Selected Biographies. New York: AAHGS-NY Writers Group, 2008.

141 

Dunklin, Arthur L. African American Men and Opportunity in the Navy: Personal Histories of Eight Chiefs. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008.

142 

Goff, Stanley, Robert Sanders, and Clark Smith. Brothers: Black Soldiers in the Nam. New York: Berkley, 1987.

143 

Hawkins, Walter L. African American Generals and Flag Officers: Biographies of Over 120 Blacks in the United States Military. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1993.

144 

_______. BlackAmerican Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007.

145 

Homan, Lynn M., and Thomas Reilly. Black Knights: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen. Gretna, La.: Pelican, 2001.

146 

Latty, Yvonne, comp. We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans from World War II to the War in Iraq. New York: Amistad, 2004.

147 

Moore, Christopher P. Fighting for America: Black Soldiers, the Unsung Heroes of World War II. New York: One World, 2005.

148 

Reef, Catherine. African Americans in the Military. New York: Facts On File, 2004.

149 

Schneller, Robert John. Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval Academy’s First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality. New York: New York University Press, 2005.

150 

Weir, William. The Encyclopedia of African American Military History. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004.

151 

Wright, Kai. Soldiers of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed Forces. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 2002.

Music

152 

Berry, Lemuel J. Great African American Musicians: From Marian Anderson to Stevie Wonder. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

153 

Bianco, David. Heat Wave: The Motown Fact Book. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pierian Press, 1988.

154 

Camp, Shermanita. Blacks in the Holocaust: An Untold and Striking Story of Survival of Seven Black Jazz Musicians in Hitler’s Concentration Camp. Hollywood, Calif.: Hallelujah, 2000.

155 

Cheatham, Wallace. Dialogues on Opera and the African-American Experience. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997.

156 

Clifford, Mike, Jon Futrell, Ray Bonds, et al. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Black Music. New York: Random House, 1988.

157 

Crazy Horse, K. Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock’n’Roll. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

158 

Davis, Angela Y. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999.

159 

Davis, Sharon. Chinwaggin’: The Classic Soul Interviews. New Romney, Kent, England: Bank House Books, 2006.

160 

Donovan, Richard X. Black Musicians of America. Portland, Oreg.: National Book Co., 1991.

161 

Floyd, Samuel A., and Marsha J. Reisser. Black Music Biography: An Annotated Bibliography. White Plains, N.Y.: Kraus, 1987.

162 

Foster, Pamela E. My Country, Too: The Other Black Music. Nashville, Tenn.: My Country, 2000.

163 

Gambrell-Drayton, Joyce. Distinguished Church Musicians in the United States. Philadelphia: Church Musicians Services, 1994.

164 

Greig, Charlotte. Icons of Black Music. San Diego, Calif.: Thunder Bay Press, 1999.

165 

Handy, D. A. Black Women in American Bands and Orchestras. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1999.

166 

Hine, Darlene C., and Kathleen Thompson. Music. Vol. 5 in Facts On File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America. New York: Facts On File, 1997.

167 

Jasper, Kenji, Ytasha Womack, Robert Johnson, and Mark Allwood. Beats, Rhymes and Life: What We Love and Hate About Hip-Hop. New York: Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, 2007.

168 

Mandel, Howard. Miles, Ornette, Cecil: How Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor Revolutionized the World of Jazz. London: Routledge, 2007.

169 

Nash, Elizabeth, comp. Autobiographical Reminiscences of African-American Classical Singers, 1853-Present: Introducing Their Spiritual Heritage into the Concert Repertoire. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007.

170 

Neff, Robert, and Anthony Connor. The Blues: In Images and Interviews. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1999.

171 

Oliver, Paul. The Story of the Blues. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.

172 

Othello, J. The Soul of Rock ’n Roll: A History of African Americans in Rock Music. Oakland, Calif.: Regent Press, 2004.

173 

Porter, Eric. What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

174 

Price, Emmett George, III, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Music. 3 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2010.

175 

Ramsey, Frederic, and Charles E. Smith. Jazzmen. New York: Limelight, 1985.

176 

Rubin, Dave. Inside the Blues: 1942 to 1982. Milwaukee, Wis.: Hal Leonard, 2007.

177 

Rylatt, Keith. Groovesville USA: The Detroit Soul and R&B Index. Great Britain: Stuart Russell, 2010.

178 

Smith, Eric L. Blacksin Opera: An Encyclopedia of People and Companies, 1873-1993. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1995.

179 

Spellman, A. B. Four Jazz Lives. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.

180 

Taylor, Art. Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews. New York: Da Capo Press, 1993.

181 

Turner, Patricia. Dictionary of Afro-American Performers: 78 RPM and Cylinder Recordings of Opera, Choral Music, and Song, 1900-1949. New York: Garland, 1990.

182 

Walker-Hill, Helen. From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.

183 

Ward, Andrew. Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. New York: Amistad, 2001.

Politics, Government, and Leadership

184 

Amer, Mildred L. Black Members of the United States Congress with Biographies, 1789-2004. New York: Novinka Books, 2007.

185 

Clay, William L. JustPermanent Interests: Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1991. New York: Amistad Press, 1992.

186 

Elliot, Jeffrey M. Encyclopedia of African-American Politics. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1995.

187 

Farrar, Hayward. Leaders and Movements: African American Life. Vero Beach, Fla.: Rourke Press, 1995.

188 

Freedman, Eric, and Stephen A. Jones. African Americans in Congress: A Documentary History. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2008.

189 

Hackney, Carrie M., and Arthuree M. L. Wright. “The Black Church and the Spirituality of Politics”: A Bibliography Compiled for the 80th Annual Convocation of the Howard University School of Divinity. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Libraries, 1996.

190 

Haskins, James. Distinguished African American Political and Governmental Leaders. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1999.

191 

Johnson, Ollie A., and Karin L. Stanford. BlackPolitical Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

192 

King-Meadows, Tyson, and Thomas F. Schaller. Devolution and Black State Legislators: Challenges and Choices in the Twenty-first Century. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.

193 

Ragsdale, Bruce A., and Joel D. Treese. Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990.

194 

Salser, Mark R. Black Americans in Congress. Portland, Oreg.: National Book, 1991.

195 

Schultz, Jeffrey D., et al., eds. Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics. 2 vols. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 2000.

196 

Smith, Robert C. Encyclopedia of African American Politics. New York: Facts On File, 2003.

197 

Tate, Katherine. Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003.

198 

Thompson, J. P. Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy. Transgressing Boundaries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

199 

Uschan, Michael V. Blacks in Political Office. Detroit, Mich.: Lucent Books, 2008.

200 

Walters, Ronald W., and Cedric Johnson. Bibliography of African American Leadership: An Annotated Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

201 

White, John. Black Leadership in America: From Booker T. Washington to Jesse Jackson. London: Longman, 1990.

Religion

202 

Aaseng, Nathan. African-American Religious Leaders: A-Z of African Americans. New York: Facts On File, 2010.

203 

Best, Felton O. Black Religious Leadership from the Slave Community to the Million Man March: Flames of Fire. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.

204 

DuPree, Sherry Sherrod. African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1996.

205 

Hemesath, Caroline. Our Black Shepherds: Biographies of the Ten Black Bishops of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Josephite Pastoral Center, 1987.

206 

Jones, Bobby, and Les Sussman. Touched by God: America’s Black Gospel Greats Share Their Stories of Finding God. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.

207 

Paris, Peter J. Black Religious Leaders: Conflict in Unity. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004.

208 

Pinn, Anthony B., Stephen C. Finley, and Torin Alexander. African American Religious Cultures. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2009.

209 

Raboteau, Albert J. Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

210 

Ritz, David. Messengers: Portraits of African American Ministers, Evangelists, Gospel Singers, and Other Messengers of the Word. New York: Doubleday, 2006.

211 

Sernett, Milton C. African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness. 2d ed. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.

212 

Wayman, A. W. Cyclopædia of African Methodism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

213 

Williams, Juan, and Quinton H. Dixie. This Far by Faith: Stories from the African-American Religious Experience. New York: William Morrow, 2003.

Science, Medicine, and Technology

214 

Barber, John T. The Black Digital Elite: African American Leaders of the Information Revolution. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006.

215 

Bellinger-Biggers, Vivian. African American Science Books for Younger Readers. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1994.

216 

Bernstein, Leonard, Alan Winkler, and Linda Zierdt-Warshaw. African and African American Women of Science. Maywood, N.J.: Peoples Publishing Group, 1998.

217 

Broadnax, Samuel L. Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007.

218 

Brodie, James Michael. Created Equal: The Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators. North Yorkshire, U.K.: Quill, 1994.

219 

Carey, Charles W., Jr. African Americans in Science: An Encyclopedia of People and Progress. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2008.

220 

Donovan, Richard X. African-American Scientists. Portland, Oreg.: National Book, 1999.

221 

Greene, Robert E. Physicians and Surgeons of Color: Real Image Models for Youth and Adults. Fort Washington, Md.: R. E. Greene, 1996.

222 

Gubert, Betty Kaplan. Invisible Wings: An Annotated Bibliography of Blacks in Aviation, 1916-1993. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

223 

Hardesty, Von. Black Wings: Courageous Stories of African Americans in Aviation and Space History. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

224 

Harmon, Marylen E., and Sherry Guertler. Visions of a Dream: History Makers—Contributions of Africans and African Americans in Science and Mathematics. Roanoke, Va.: M. E. Harmon, 1994.

225 

Hine, Darlene Clark, and Kathleen Thompson, eds. Science, Health, and Medicine. Vol. 11 in Facts On File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America. New York: Facts On File, 1997.

226 

Jenkins, Edward Sidney. To Fathom More: African American Scientists and Inventors. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1996.

227 

Jordan, Diann. Sisters in Science: Conversations with Black Women Scientists About Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2006.

228 

Kessler, James H., et al. Distinguished African American Scientists of the Twentieth Century. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1996.

229 

Krapp, Kristine M. Notable Black American Scientists. Detroit: Gale, 1999.

230 

Lang, Mozell P. Contributions of African American Scientists and Mathematicians. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2005.

231 

Marchè, Wina. African American Achievers in Science, Medicine, and Technology: A Resource Book for Young Learners, Parents, Teachers, and Librarians. Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books, 2003.

232 

Sammons, Vivian O. Blacks in Science and Medicine. New York: Hemisphere, 1990.

233 

Sluby, Patricia Carter. The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008.

234 

Spangenburg, Ray, and Diane Moser. African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention. New York: Facts On File, 2003.

235 

Spurlock, Jeanne. Black Psychiatrists and American Psychiatry. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 1999.

236 

Sullivan, Otha Richard, and James Haskins. African American Women Scientists and Inventors. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

237 

Warren, Wini. Black Women Scientists in the United States. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

238 

Webster, Raymond B. African American Firsts in Science and Technology. Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 1999.

239 

Williams, Michael, and Djehuti-Ankh-Kheru. Black Women Scientists and Inventors. London: BIS, 2007.

240 

Wilson, Donald, and Jane Wilson. The Pride of African American History: Inventors, Scientists, Physicians, Engineers. Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books, 2003.

Sports

241 

Aaseng, Nathan. African-American Athletes. New York: Facts On File, 2010.

242 

Ashe, Arthur. A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete—Boxing. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

243 

Bayne, Bijan C. Sky Kings:Black Pioneers of Professional Basketball. New York: Franklin Watts, 1998.

244 

Dawkins, Marvin P., and Graham C. Kinloch. African American Golfers During the Jim Crow Era. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Press, 2000.

245 

Freedman, Lee. African American Pioneers of Baseball: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007.

246 

Hogan, Lawrence D. Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2006.

247 

Hunter, Shaun. Great African Americans in the Olympics. New York: Crabtree, 1997.

248 

Jacobs, Barry. Across the Line—Profiles in Basketball Courage: Tales of the First Black Players in the ACC and SEC. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2008.

249 

Jacobson, Steve. Carrying Jackie’s Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball—and America. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2007.

250 

Johnson, M. Mikell. The African American Woman Golfer: Her Legacy. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Press, 2007.

251 

Kennedy, John H. A Course of Their Own: A History of African American Golfers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

252 

Lapchick, Richard Edward. 100 Pioneers: African-Americans Who Broke Color Barriers in Sport. Morgantown, W.Va.: Fitness Information Technology, 2008.

253 

McNary, Kyle P. Black Baseball: A History of African-Americans and the National Game. Canton, Ohio: PRC Publishing, 2006.

254 

Porter, David L. African-American Sports Greats: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.

255 

Ross, Charles. Outside the Lines: African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

256 

Walter, John C., and Malina Iida. Better than the Best: Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.

257 

Whitaker, Matthew C. African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage, and Excellence. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008.

258 

Wiggins, David Kenneth. Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006.

259 

Wiggins, David Kenneth, and Patrick B. Miller. The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.

260 

Wigginton, Russell Thomas. The Strange Career of the Black Athlete: African Americans and Sports. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006.

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Barnes, Joyce A. "Bibliography." Great Lives from History: African Americans, edited by Carl L. Bankston, Salem Press, 2011. Salem Online, online.salempress.com/articleDetails.do?articleName=GLAA_184356601843.
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Barnes, J. A. (2011). Bibliography. In C. L. Bankston (Ed.), Great Lives from History: African Americans. Salem Press. online.salempress.com.
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Barnes, Joyce A. "Bibliography." Edited by Carl L. Bankston. Great Lives from History: African Americans. Hackensack: Salem Press, 2011. Accessed October 22, 2025. online.salempress.com.