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Resources for Teachers and Researchers

Online Resources

Selected Reference Sources

Andrews, William L. To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. University of Illinois Press, 1986.

—. Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865. Oxford UP, 2019.

Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Oxford UP, 2007.

Bacon, Jacqueline. Freedom’s Journal: The First African-American Newspaper. Lexington Books, 2007.

Ball, Erica C. To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class. University of Georgia Press, 2012.

Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Anchor Books, 2008.

Carby, Hazel V. Race Men. Harvard UP, 2009.

Cooper, Brittney C. Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women. University of Illinois Press, 2017.

Dunbar, Eve. Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers between the Nation and the World. Temple UP, 2013.

Early African American Print Culture. Edited by Laura Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

Fagan, Benjamin. The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation. University of Georgia Press, 2016.

Foreman, P. Gabrielle, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson. The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century. University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Gardner, Eric. Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture. Oxford UP, 2015.

—. Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. University Press of Mississippi, 2009.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Penguin Press, 2019.

Jones, Angela. African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement. Praeger, 2011.

Jones, Martha S. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. Cambridge UP, 2018.

Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900. Edited by Philip Sheldon Foner and Robert J. Branham, University of Alabama Press, 1998

Mitchell, Koritha. Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930. University of Illinois Press, 2011.

Murray, Hannah-Rose. Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles. Cambridge UP, 2020.

Nwankwo, Ifeoma Kiddoe. Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Perry, Kennetta Hammond. London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship, and the Politics of Race. Oxford UP, 2015.

Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919. Edited by Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard, NYU Press, 2006.

Spires, Derrick R. The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Tuck, Stephen. The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest. University of California Press, 2014.

Zackodnik, Teresa. Press, Platform, Pulpit: Black Feminist Publics in the Era of Reform. University of Tennessee Press, 2011.