Selected BSL Reference Resources for African American Studies

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Biographical Resources / Encyclopedias / Africana / History / Art, Music & Literature / Bibliographies of Newspapers & Periodicals /

E185.C775
Contemporary Black biography
Detroit : Gale Research Inc., c1992-

E185.86.B5233
Hine, Darlene Clark, ed.
Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1993

E185.86.N68
Smith, Jessie Carney, ed.
Notable Black American men
Detroit : Gale, c1999

E185.96.N68
Smith, Jessie Carney, ed.
Notable Black American women : Book I & Book II
Detroit : Gale Research, c1992

E185.96.W54
Who's Who Among African Americans
Detroit : Gale Research, 1996-

Q141.N726
Krapp, Kristine M., ed.
Notable Black American scientists
Detroit, MI : Gale Research, 1999

E185.A253
Williams, Michael W., ed.
The African American encyclopedia
New York : Marshall Cavendish Corp., c1993

E185.A2533
Smith, C. Carter, Jr., ed.
African-American Experience on File
New York : Facts On File, c1999

E185.E54
Salzman, Jack; David Lionel Smith; Cornel West, eds.
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history
New York : Macmillan Library Reference, 1996

E185.R435
Mabunda, L. Mpho, ed.
Reference library of Black America
Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1997

DT14.A37435
Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Henry Louis Gates, Jr, eds.
Africana : The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
New York : Basic Civitas Books, c1999

E185.18.J46
Jenkins, Everett.
Pan-African Chronology: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, Europe, and Asia
Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co.,, c1996-c2001

E185.A455
Altman, Susan.
Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage
New York : Facts on File, c2000.

E185.B467
Bergman, Peter M., Jean McCarrol.
The Negro in the Congressional Record
New York : Bergman, 1969.

E185.H326
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, et.al., eds.
The Harvard guide to African-American History
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2001.

E185.2.A25
African American History in the Press 1851-1899: from the coming of the Civil War to the Rise of Jim Crow as Reported and Illustrated in Selected Newspapers of the Time
Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1996.

Atlases

E185.A79
Asante, Molefi K., and Mark T. Mattson.
The African-American Atlas: Black History and Culture - An Illustrated Reference
New York : Macmillan; London : Prentice Hall International, c1998.

E185.C55
Ciment, James.
Atlas of African-American History
New York : Facts on File Library of American History, c2001.

E185.E125
Earle, Jonathan Halperin.
The routledge Atlas of African American History
New York : Routledge, 2000.

Almanacs & Factbooks

E185.A448
Miles, Johnnie h., et. al.
Almanac of African American Heritage: A Book of Lists Featuring People, Places, Times and Events that Shaped Black Culture
Paramus, NJ : Prentice Hall Press, c2001.

E185.B574
Smith, Jessie Carney, ed.
Black Firsts : 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events
Detroit : Visible Ink, c2003

E185.N3683
The African-American Almanac
Detroit : Gale Research, c1994-

E185.N49
The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference / The New York Public Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
New York : Wiley, 1999.

Statistics

E185.B483
Hornor, Louise L., ed.
Black Americans : A Statistical Sourcebook
Palo Alto, CA : Information Publications, c1999

E185.H543
Smith, Jessie Carney, & Carrell Peterson Horton eds.
Historical Statistics of Black America
New York : Gale Research, c1995

E185.5.S7
Smith, Jessie Carney, & Carrell Peterson Horton eds.
Statistical Record of Black America.
Detroit : Gale Research, c1997

Chronologies

E185.H295
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, c1995

E185.H64
Hornsby, Alton
Chronology of African American history : from 1492 to the present
Detroit : Gale Research, c1997

UB418A47M64
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

Slavery

HT861.H57
Rodriguez, Junius P., ed.
The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery

HT861.M24
Finkelman, Paul; Joseph C. Miller, eds.
Macmillan encyclopedia of world slavery
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, Simon & Schuster Macmillan ; London : Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, c1998

Civil Rights

E185.61.E58
Lowery, Charles D., John F. Marszalek, eds.
Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present
New York : Greenwood Press, 1992.

E185.61.G78
Grossman, Mark.
The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Civil Rights Movement
Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, 1993.

E185.61.L84
Luker, Ralph.
Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement
Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 1997.

E185.61.R514
Riches, William Terence Martin.
The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance
New york : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

E185.97.K5A2
Carson, Clayborne, ed.
The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992-

Politics

E185.A2536
Pohlman, Marcus D., ed.
African American Political Thought
New York : Routledge, 2003-

N40.S78
Riggs, Thomas, ed.
St. James guide to Black artists
Detroit, MI : St. James Press, c1997

PN841.M58
Manitou Wordworks
Modern black writers
Detroit : St. James Press, c2000

AI3.I33
Index to Black newspapers
Wooster, Ohio, Indexing Center, UMI

PN4882.5.A47
Danky, James P.; Maureen E. Hady, eds.
African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998

Z1361.N39N58
Newman, Richard
Black index : Afro-Americana in selected periodicals, 1907-1949
New York : Garland Pub., 1981