African American History Resources

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Crafting a Legacy

An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North by Zoë Burkholder

African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution

American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race

Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon

Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, 20th Anniversary Edition

Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military

A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs

The Fellowship Church: Howard Thurman and the Twentieth-Century Christian Left by Amanda Brown

Healing for the Soul: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination by Braxton D. Shelley

Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Equal Rights in Antebellum New England

Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora

Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights

A Long, Long Way: Hollywood's Unifinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation

Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation's Capital

Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field

Obama on Our Minds: The Impact of Obama on the Psyche of America

The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America

Promises to Keep: African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present

Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865

Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics

Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College

To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk

The Transformation of Black Music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora

Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination

What Is African American Literature? by Margo N. Crawford

Where Is All My Relation?: The Poetics of Dave the Potter

White Men's Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism