African American Gateway
The Genealogy Center >> African American Gateway >> Subjects
Search Results: BIOGRAPHY
15 Famous Black Scientists in History
African American Experience in Louisiana
Alex Haley Biography
All the Stories are True: African American Writers Speak (Smithsonian)
Benjamin Banneker: The Black Tobacco Farmer who the Presidents Couldn’t Ignore
Biographies of Famous African Americans (database of biographies)
Biography of Rev. David Smith of the AME Church - Including History of Wilberforce University (Wilberforce University)
Civil War in Southern Ohio (African American soldier biographies)
Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
Daniel Hale Williams, MD: A Moses in the Profession
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (African American doctor Rock County Connections)
Famous Black Artists
Frederick Douglass: American Abolitionist
Jackie Robinson and other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s (baseball league)
Notable Kentucky African Americans Database
Revolutionary War Soldiers (3 African American bios)
St. Johns County African-American World War I Soldiers with some Biographies
The Struggle for Justice (Smithsonian)
W. E. B. Du Bois: A Resource Guide
WEB DuBois Learning Center
Aaseng, Nathan. African-American Religious Leaders. New York: Facts on File, 2003. 264p. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Aa77af/
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African American Achievement. . New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1996. 232p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Ab324bL/
Adams, William Crawford Samuel. Freeborn: 350 Years of Eastern Shore African American History--The Adams/Beckett Family. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2000. 140p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. /GC 929.2 Ad101aw/
African American Biographies. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2006. Volume 1-10. Illustrations. Indices. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Af833bg/
African American Lives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 1025p. Indices. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Af8337/
Agle, Nan Hayden. Free to Stay: The True Story of a Former Slave and the Family She Adopted. Fruitland, MD: Maryland History Press, 2000. 160p. Photographs. /GC 975.2 Ag53fr/
Aleshire, William A. A Buffalo Soldier's Story: Medal of Honor Recipient Sergeant Thomas Boyne and His Comrades, 1864 to 1889. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2004. 705p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.001 Aa1ales/
Alexander, Eleanor. Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore; A Social History of Love, Sex, and the African-American Elite, 1870-1910. Providence, RI: E. Alexander, 1996. 377p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.068 Al261Ly/
Andrews, William L., ed. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986. 245p. Notes. /GC 973.068 Si846/
Angell, Stephen Ward. Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South. Knoxville, TX: The University of Tennessee Press, 1992. 340p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.102 M56an/
Atkins, James E. Adam Boykin: Slave, Soldier, Citizen. Surry County, VA: n. pub., 2008. 69p. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 975.501 SU7AT
Baker, Henry E. The Colored Inventor. New York: Arno Press, 1969. 12p. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B17co/
Ball, Erica L, Tatiana Seijas and Terri L. Snyder. As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 501p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 929.19 Am35b/
Bankston, Carl L. III. African Americans. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2011. 5 vols. Bibliographies. Index. Photographs. Great Lives from History Series. /GC 973.068 Af833gr V. 1-5/
Basker, James G. Black Writers of the Founding Era, 1760-1800. Ypsilanti, MI: The Library of America, 2023. 706p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 B56b
Baskin, Wade and Richard N. Runes. Dictionary of Black Culture. New York: Philosophical Library, 1973. 493p. /GC 973.068 B293di/
Basso, Ralph. Nationalism, Nativism, and the Black Soldier: Daniel Ullmann, A Biography of a Man Living in a Period of Transition, 1810-1892. New York: R. Basso, 1985. 453p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.068 B295na/
Beam, Laura. He Called Them By the Lightning: A Teacher's Odyssey in the Negro South, 1908-1919. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. 230p. Notes. /GC 973.068 B37he/
Beck, Jane C. Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 295p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 T851be/
Beito, David T. and Linda Royster Beito. Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 304p. Index. Notes. Photographs/GC 973.068 H831b/
Bell, Richard. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home. . New York: 37Ink/Simon & Schuster, 2019. 318p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 413st/
Bennet, Bernice Alexander et. al. Our Ancestors, Our Stories. Suwanee, GA: The Write Image, 2014. 161p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 975.702 Ed35bai/
Bentley, Kenneth W. Women of Courage II. Glendale, CA: Nestle, 1998. 65p. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B446w/
Bernard, Jacqueline. Journey Toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner Truth. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1967. 267p. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 929.2 T776b/
Berry, Mary Frances. "We Are Who We Say We Are:" A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2015. 206p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 B459we/
Berry, Stephen. Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2007. 554p. Index. Notes. /GC 975 B459p/
Billington, Ray Allen, ed. The Journal of Charlotte Forten: A Young Black Woman's Reactions to the White World of the Civil War Era--A Free Negro in the Slave Era. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1953. 286p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 F77j/
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. . Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2008. 803p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B56/
Black Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, Inc., 1999. 730p. Bibliographies. Index. /GC 929.1 B56wr/
Blackett, R. J. M. Beating Against the Barriers: The Lives of Six Nineteenth-Century Afro-Americans. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989. 417p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 B563be/
Blake, John. Children of the Movement. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2004. 260p. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B58ch/
Bowley, Freeman S. A Boy Lieutenant: Memoirs of Freeman S. Bowley, 30th United States Colored Troops Officer. Fredericksburg, VA: Sergeant Kirkland's Museum and Historical Society, Inc., 1997. 124p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.74 Aa1bov/
Boyd, Gerald M. My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2010. 402p. Index. Photographs. /GC 929.2 B691by/
Braithwaite, Rella and Tessa Benn-Ireland. Some Black Women: Profiles of Black Women in Canada. Toronto, Ontario: Sister Vision, 1993. 119p. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 971 B731s/
Branche, Juanita Odom. Lost Identities, Ancestors of the Past: Bailey, Branche, Clarke, Floyd, Harley, Holmes, Odom, Reynolds, Walker. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1996. 114p. Maps. Photographs. Charts and tables. Much data regarding tracing an African American family. /GC 929.2 Od47b/
Brown-Kubisch, Linda. The Queen's Bush Settlement: Black Pioneers, 1839-1865. Toronto, Ontario: Natural Heritage Books, 2004. 340p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 971.301 W46bk/
Broyard, Bliss. One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets. New York: Back Bay Books, 2007. 514p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 B828on/
Bundles, A'Lelia. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker. New York: Pocket Books, 2001. 415p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC GC 929.2 W151bu/
Burnard, Trevor. Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 320p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 972.92 B931m/
Byrd, Rudolph P., ed. Generations in Black and White. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1993. 172p. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 V375ge/
Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2011. 279p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 C223ph/
Chalk, Ocania. Pioneers of Black Sport: The Early Days of the Black Professional Athlete in Baseball, Basketball, Boxing and Football. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1975. 305p. Index. Appendix. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 C35pi/
Cheek, William and Aimee Lee Cheek. John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65. . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989. 478p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photograph. Blacks in the New World Series. /GC 973.068 C414jo/
Christopher, Maurine. Black Americans in Congress. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976. 329p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 C466bL/
Cole, C.R. Samuel Fraunces: "Black Sam". [Centre County, PA] : [C.R. Cole], 2009. 121p. Illustrations. /GC 929.2 F8653CO/
Cooper, Helen. . The House of Sugar Beach. New York: Simon Schuster, 2008. 336p. Photographs. /GC 929.2 929.2 C7846c/
Crawford, George W. Prince Hall and His Followers: Being a Monograph on the Legitimacy of Negro Masonry. New York: The Crisis, 1914. 96p. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 C856p/
Crow, Hugh. The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain. Oxford, England: Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford, 2007. 198p. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 929.2 C8885ch/
Cunningham, Michael and Connie Briscoe. Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007. 214p. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 C917je/
Dagbovic, Pero Gaglo. The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 258p. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 D132e/
Daniels, Nathan W. Thank God My Regiment an African One: The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. 214p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.74 Aa1dan/
Davis, Lenwood G., William J. Rice, and James H. McLaughlin. African Americans in Winston Salem/Forsyth County: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company, 1999. 192p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 975.602 W73da/
Davis, Michael D. Black American Women in Olympic Track and Field: A Complete Illustrated Reference. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1992. 170p. Appendix. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 D92bl/
Dean, Mary. The Black Legends of Kansas. Wichita, KS: M. Dean, 2015. 145p. Photographs. /GC 978.1 D344bL/
Diop, Leon and Briana Fitzsimons. Black & Irish: Legends, Trailblazers & Everyday Heroes. Dublin, Ireland: Little Island Books, 2023. 175p. Illustrations. /GC 941.5 B56d/
Donaldson, Cynthia Norfleet. Hidden History: My Family's Ancestral Roots. Springfield, OH: C.N. Donaldson, 2019. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 N765dc/
Donaldson, Cynthia Norfleet. Life in Black and White: A Family's Story of Navigating the Color Line. Columbus, OH: C.N. Donaldson, 2022. 287p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 C358dc/
Drago, Edmund L., ed. Broke by the War: Letters of a Slave Trader. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. 152p. Notes. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 975.702 C38mce/
Dray, Philip. Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. 463p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 973.068 D797c/
Due, Tananarive and Patricia Stephens Due. Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. New York: One World, 2003. 389p. Index. Notes. Photos. /GC 973.068 D868fr/
Duster, Alfreda M. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1970. 434p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 W46c/
Editors of Ebony. The Ebony Success Library, Volume 1: 1,000 Successful Blacks. Nashville, TN: The Southwestern Company, 1973. 341p. Photographs. /GC 973 Eb74esl/
Editors of Salem Press. Notable African American Writers. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Inc., Vol. 1-3. Bibliographies. Index. Photographs. /GC 929.11 N843af V 1-3/
Emberton, Carole. To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. 242p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 975.6 Em1t/
Five Black Lives: The Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, the Rev. G.W. Offley, James L. Smith. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. 240p. /GC 974.6 F586/
Flipper, Henry Ossian. The Colored Cadet at West Point. New York: Arno Press, 1969. 322p. /GC 973.068 F648co/
Foley, Albert S. God's Men of Color: The Colored Catholic Priests of the United States, 1859-1954. New York: Arno Press, 1969. 322p. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 F699go/
Foner, Eric. Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. 298p. Indices. Photographs. /GC 973.068 F732fa/
Foner, Eric. Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 290p. Illustrations. Indices. /GC 973.068 F732f/
Franklin, John Hope & Loren Schweninger. In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 286p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 T362fr/
Fullwood, Valaida. Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists. Charlotte, NC: Foundation for the Carolinas, 2011. 365p. Appendices. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 F959gi/
Gable-Wilson, Sonya R. Let Freedom Sing! Four African-American Concert Singers in Nineteenth-Century America. Gainesville, FL: S. R. Gable-Wilson, 2005. 231p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 929.11 G113Le/
Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: William Morrow, 1986., 800p. Index. Bibliography. /GC 973.068 G194be/
Garrow, David J., ed. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. 190p. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 976.101 M76ro/
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own. New York: Crown Publishers, 2007. 191p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 929 G223f/
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past. New York: Crown Publishers, 2009. 438p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 G223i/
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds. African American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Eight volumes. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Af8338 V. 1-8/
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 595 p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 G2268ga/
Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook. Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How and Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. 256p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.0496 G32m/
Gibson, Lyle Eric. Black Tie White Tie: Chronicle of an American Family, 1739-1940. Kansas City, KS: Cushani Publishing, Inc., 168p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Indices. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 R25ga/
Gibson, Lyle Eric. The Reed-Walker Family: Descendants of Savannah Reed-Walker. Pine Bluff, AR: L. E. Gibson, 1995. 133p. Illustrations. /GC 929.2 R25g/
Gilliland, C. Herbert. Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master's Mate Lawrence with the African Squadron, 1844-1846. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004. 329p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 L435v/
Goings, Henry. Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012. 157p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Carter G. Woodson Institute Series. /GC 973.068 G561ra/
Goodwin, Robert. Crossing the Continent, 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South. New York: Harper, 2008. 414p. Index. Notes. Bibliography. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 G632C/
Gordan, Grant. From Slavery to Freedom: The Life of David George, Pioneer Black Baptist Minister. Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press Limited, 1992. 356p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 971.6 G655f/
Gould, William IV. Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. 373p. Index. Notes. /GC 973.74 Aa1gou/
Grizzle, Stanley G. My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada-Personal Reminiscences of Stanley G. Grizzle. Toronto, Ontario: Umbrella Press, 1998. 127p. Appendices. Index. Photographs. /GC 971 G887m/
Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor. The Sweeter The Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 271p. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 929.2 T21hs/
Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Love, War, and the 96th Engineers (Colored): The World War II New Guinea Diaries of Captain Hyman Samuelson. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 319p. Index. Notes. /GC 940.5410 Aalhg/
Hall, Nora Darlene. On Being an African-American Woman: Gender and Race in the Writings of Six Black Women Journalists, 1849-1936. Minneapolis, MN: N. D. Hall, 1998. 376p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 973.068 H14on/
Harmon, Judith Eilene Brown. James Weldon Johnson, A New Negro: A Study of His Early Life and Literary Career, 1871-1916. Atlanta, GA: Emory University, 1988. 246p. Dissertation. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.068 H228ja/
Harris, Milton Stephen. Black Family Tree: "Slavery to 1984." Owensboro, KY: M. S. Harris, 1984. 60p. Photographs. /GC 929.2 Si47ha/
Harrison, Paul Carter, Bill Duke, and Danny Glover. Black Light: The African American Hero. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993. 208p. Photographs. /GC 973.068 H245bL/
Haskins, James. Distinguished African American Political and Governmental Leaders. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999. 314p. Index. Appendices. Bibliography. Photographs. Notes. /GC 973.068 H273d/
Haskins, John. . Black Eagles: African American in Aviation. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1995. 196p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 H273bL/
Hawkins, Walter L. African American Biographies: Profiles of 558 Current Men and Women. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1992. 490p. Indices. Photographs. /GC 973.068 H314af/
Hawkins, Walter L. African American Generals and Flag Officers: Biographies of Over 120 Blacks in the United States Military. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1993. 264p. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.001 Aa1haw/
Hawkins, Walter L. Black American Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007. 549p. Appendices. Photographs. /GC 973.001 Aa1hawa/
Heller, Charles E. In Advance of Fate: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809-1867. Amherst, MA: C. E. Heller, 1985. 452p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974 H367in/
Hicks, Nora Louis. Slave Girl Reba and Her Descendants in America. s.l.: s.p., 1974. 95p. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 929.2 H5297Hi
Hill, Pascoe Grenfell. Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel in the Mozambique Channel, April and May, 1843. Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 1993. 58p. /GC 973.068 H552f/
Hinkle, Alice M. Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier. Lexington, MA: Pleasant Mountain Press, 2001. 94p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.34 M38hi/
Hotaling, Edward. The Great Black Jockeys: The Lives and Times of the Men Who Dominated America's First National Sport. Rocklin, CA: FORUM, 1999. 380p. Index. Notes. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 H797gr/
Jacobs, Donald M. Index to the American Slave. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981. 274p. /GC 929.11 In2/
Jacobs, John Swanson. The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 295p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 975.6 J15u/
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Abolitionist Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies & the Unfinished Work of Emancipation. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 337p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 J37ab/
Johnson, Dolores. Onward: A Photobiography of African-American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2006. 64p. Index. Photographs. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 929.2 H3984jo/
Johnson, John L. Every Night & Every Morn: Portraits of Asian, Hispanic, Jewish, African-American, and Native-American Recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Winston- Salem, NC: Tristan Press, 2007. 263p. Appendices. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 973.001 Aa1JJL/
Johnson, Michael D. Wade H. Hammond (1879-1957): Early Twentieth Century African-American Military Bandmaster. Lubbock, TX: M. D. Johnson, 2004. 314p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 973.068 J63wa/
Johnson, Mildred and Theresa Delsoin. Malindy's Freedom: The Story of a Slave Family. St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society Press, 2005. 215p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 929.2 W691iy/
Johnson, Robert. Why Blacks Left America for Africa: Interviews with Black Repatriates, 1971-1999. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. 162p. Index. Bibliography. /GC 973.068 J63wh/
Johnson, Robert Lee. Notable Southern Californians in Black History. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2017. 127p. Photographs. /GC 979.4 J63n/
Jones, Marquita Chamblee. A Profile of Black Agriculture Students at Selected 1862 and 1890 Land Grant Institutions. University Park, PA: M. C. Jones, 1993. 141p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 973.068 J71pr/
King, Cynthia P. Rhetoric and Resistance in the Historical Narratives of Nineteenth Century African Americans William Wells Brown and George Washington Williams. College Park, MD: C. P. King, 2002. 227p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.068 K58rh/
Krapp, Kristine, ed. Notable Black American Scientists. Farmington, MI: Gale Research, 1999. 349p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 N843k/
Kremer, Gary R. George Washington Carver in His Own Words. Columbia, MO; University of Missouri Press, 1987. 208p. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 C256c/
Lacey, Earnest Edward. The Search for FreeJoe. Memphis, TN: FreeJoe Enterprises, 1999. 257p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 H24l/
Lampe, Gregory P. Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice, 1818-1845. Madison, WI: G. P. Lampe, 1995. 499p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 973.068 L196fr/
Lanier, Shannon and Jane Feldman. Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family. New York: Random House, 2000. 144p. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 929.2 J356L/
Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. 403p. Index. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. Family Tree. /GC 973.068 L329bo/
Lee, George L. Interesting People: Black American History Makers. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 1976. 210p. Index. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 L511m/
Lee, Irvin H. Negro Medal of Honor Men. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1967. 139p. Index. Bibliography. Appendix. Photographs. /GC 973.068 L51ne/
Lemon, Samuel Michael. Go Stand Upon the Rock: From Stories Handed Down by My Grandmother About How Our Ancestors Fought to be Free. S.l.: Buckhorn Press, 2012. 297p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 R437Le/
Levine, Ellen. Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. 167p. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 973.068 L578fr/
Lo, Mbaye and Carl W. Ernst. I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 218p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Indices. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 L78ic/
Ludlow, Susie Nickens. Carry Me Back: A Family and National History of Slavery and Freedom. Oakland, CA: Honocan Press, 2000. 264p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 N5289L/
Lutz, Christine Ann. "The Dizzy Steep to Heaven:" The Hunton Family, 1850-1970. Atlanta, GA: C. A. Lutz, 2001. 367p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 929.2 H926Lu/
Lyman, Gracie May Williams et al. Memoirs of My Family's Legacy: Puzzles of a Lifetime. S.l.: N. Jones Enterprise LLC, 2016. 267p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 W6714Lg/
Manning, Vergil L. Ancestors and Descendants of the Manning Family. S. l.: s. n., 19--. 22p. African American genealogy. /GC 929.2 M316206m/
Mather, Frank Lincoln, ed. Who's Who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent. Chicago, IL: s. n., 1915. 296p. /GC 929.11 W62co/
Mathurin, Owen Charles. Henry Sylvester Williams and the Origins of the Pan-African Movement, 1869-1911. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. 183p. Index. Bibliography. Appendix. Notes. /GC 973.068 M426he/
Matthews, Harry Bradshaw. Cato Freedom Project: Three African American Revolutionary War Patriots in Central New York. Oneonta, NY: United States Colored Troops Institute, Hartwick College, c2009. 10p. Photographs. Illustrations. Bibliography. /GC 973.068 M433C/
McBurney, Christian M. Jailed for Preaching: The Autobiography of Cato Pearce, A Freed Slave from Washington County, Rhode Island. Kingston, RI: Pettaquamscutt Historical Society, 2006. 37p + 48p. Illustrations. Appendices. /GC 929.2 P315Mc/
McGruder, Larry. Kelly Miller: The Life and Thoughts of a Black Intellectual, 1863-1939. Oxford, OH: L. McGruder, 1984. 154p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.068 M178ke/
McKissack, Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack. Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. 152p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 M4599bL/
McPherson, Mark F. Looking for Lisette: In Quest of an American Original. Dexter, MI: Mage Press, 2001. 2nd edition. 456p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 973 M241Loa/
Metzger, Linda, ed. Black Writers: A Selection of Sketches from "Contemporary Authors". Detroit, MI: Gale Research, Inc., 1989. 619p. /GC 973.068 B561/
Meyler, Peter, ed. Broken Shackles: Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom. Toronto, Ontario: Natural Heritage Books, 2001. 221p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 971.3 B787/
Meyler, Peter. A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint. Toronto, Ontario: Natural Heritage Books, 1999. 141p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. /GC 971.301 W45me/
Miles, Tiya Alicia. "Bone of My Bone:" Stories of a Black-Cherokee Family, 1790-1866. St. Paul, MN: T. A. Miles, 2000. 250p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 970.3 C42mil/
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. New York: Random House, 2021. 385p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 M593a/
Mitchell, James Nathaniel. Nat Turner: Slave, Preacher, Prophet, and Messiah, 1800-1831: A Study of the Call of a Black Slave to Prophethood and to the Messiahship of the Second Coming of Christ. Nashville, TN: J. N. Mitchell, 1975. 139p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.068 M692na/
Morgan, Kathryn L. Children of Strangers: The Stories of a Black Family. [Gordon family] Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980. 122p. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 G652mo/
Murphy, Barbara Thrash. Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999. 513p. Index. Appendices. Illustrations. Photographs. Bibliography. /GC 929.11 M951bl/
Newman, Richard S. Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. New York: New York University Press, 2008. 359p. Index. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 N462fr/
Norris, Michele. The Grace of Silence. New York: Pantheon Books, 2010. 185p. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 N7g/
O'Toole, James. Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. 284p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Ot6p/
Our Heritage: Family Stories. Chicago: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2010. 386p. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 977.302 C43ou/
Pearson, Hugh. Under the Knife: How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South. New York: The Free Press, 2000. 249p. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 G8746p/
Penn, I. Garland. The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. New York: Arno Press, 1969. 575p. Appendix. Index. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 P38af/
Perpener, John O. African-American Concert Dance: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 284p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 P425af/
Perry, Mark. Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders. New York: Penguin Books, 2001. 406p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 929.2 G88275p
Peterson, Frank E. Into the Tiger's Jaw, America's First Black Marine Aviator: The Autobiography of Lt. Gen. Frank E. Peterson. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1998. 334p. Photographs. /GC 973.068 P442in/
Phelps, J. Alfred. They Had a Dream: The Story of African-American Astronauts. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1994. 291p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 P511th/
Pollock, Alan J. Barnstorming to Heaven: Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 407p. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 973.068 P765B/
Potter, Joan. African-American Firsts: Famous, Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America. Elizabethtown, NY: Pinto Press, 1994. 336p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 973 P853a/
Prince, Bryan. A Shadow on the Household: One Enslaved Family's Incredible Struggle for Freedom. Toronto: Emblem/McClelland & Stewart, 2010. 280p. Index. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 W419pr/
Ragsdale, Bruce A. and Joel D. Treese. Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1990. 164p. Photographs. Notes. /GC 929.11 R128BL/
Ramsey, Sylvester. Just This Side of Slavery: Volume II. [SC]: Sylvester Ramsey, Jr. 2010. 283p. Photographs. /GC 929.2 R149RAM/
Ravage, John W. Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier. Salt Lake City, UT: The University of Utah Press, 1997. 224p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 978 R197bl/
Reid, Joy-Ann. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America. New York: Mariner Books, 2024. 342p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.2 R27me/
Rich, Doris L. Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. 153p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 R37qu/
Richardson, Ben. Great American Negroes. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1956. 339p. Index. /GC 973 R393g/
Riley, James A. The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994. 952p. Index. Photographs. /GC 973 R453bi/
Robinson, Wilhelmena S. Historical Negro Biographies. New York: Publishers Company, Inc., 1967. (International Library of Negro Life and History) 291p. Bibliography. Drawings. Index. Photographs. /GC 929.11 R568h/
Rosengarten, Theodore. All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. 575p. Index. Appendix. /GC 976.1 Sh26al/
Rummel, Jack and G. S. Prentzas. African-American Social Leaders and Activists. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2011. 262p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. A to Z of African Americans Series. /GC 973.068 R865af/
Russell, Anne D. Builders of Detroit: Biographical Sketches of 62 Outstanding Blacks. [Pontiac, MI]: A.D. Russell, 1979. 152p. Photographs. /GC 977.402 D48bu/
Russell, Dick. Black Genius: Inspirational Portraits of America's Black Leaders. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009. 499p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 R911bL/
Salem, Dorothy C. African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993. 622p. Appendix. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 Af834/
Salvador, George Arnold. Paul Cuffe, The Black Yankee, 1759-1817. Dartmouth, MA: George A. Salvador, 1969. 76p. Bibliography. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Sa383p/
Sammons, Vivian Ovelton. Blacks in Science and Medicine. New York: Hemisphere Publishing, 1990. 293p. Index. Bibliography. /GC 929.11 Sa458bl/
Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2014. 2 vols. Appendices. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Sa48b V. 1-2/
Schmal, John P. An African-American Family: The Williams-Lear Family History. S.l.: s.n., 1993. 50p. Notes. /GC 929.2 W671sc/
Schubert, Irene & Frank N. On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier II: New and Revised Biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2004. 502p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. /GC 973.001 Aa10a/
Schwarz, Suzanne. Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press, 2008. 212p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 929.2 Ir861j/
Shellum, Brian G. Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment: The Military Career of Charles Young. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 360p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 SH44bl/
Shockley, Ann Allen and Sue P. Chandler. Living Black American Authors: A Biographical Directory. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1973. 220p. Index. /GC 973.068 Sh71Li/
Short, Wallace V. William Henry Sheppard, Pioneer African-American Presbyterian Missionary, Human Rights Defender, and Collector of African Art, 1865-1927. Washington, DC: W. V. Short, 2006. 544p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 973.068 Sh811wi/
Shorter, Aylward and Maggie Price Taylor. The Shorter Family: England, America and Africa in the History of a Family. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2003. 288p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 Sh817sh/
Simmons, William J. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. Chicago: Johnson Publishing, 1970. 829p. Index. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 Si473me/
Simon, Walter Augustus. Henry O. Tanner--A Study of the Development of an American Negro Artist: 1859-1937. New York: W. A. Simon, 1960. 202p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.068 Si531he/
Sloan, Samuel H. The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson. Bronx, NY: Ishi Press International, 2007. 309p. plus addendum & various additional paging. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.4 St5s/
Smallwood, Thomas. A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man). Toronto, Canada: The Mercury Press, 2000. 110p. Appendix. Bibliography. /GC 971.3 Sm19n/
Smith, Jessie Carney. Black Heroes. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 2001. 733p. Indices. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Sm51bl/
Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. Black Heroes of the 20th Century. Detroit, MI: Visible Ink Press, 1998. 733p. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Sm511bh/
Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. Notable Black American Women, Book II. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, Inc., 1996. 775p. Indices. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 N843sm/
Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. Powerful Black Women. Detroit, MI: Visible Ink, 1996. 423p. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 979.068 P87/
Smith, Jessie Carney. Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events. Detroit, MI: Visible Ink, 2003. 878p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Sm51bla/
Smith, Jonathan Kennon. Varied Notes Regarding Bishop Isaac Lane. S. l.: J. K. Smith, 1999. 48p. Bibliography. Index. /GC 929.2 L24sm/
Smith, Valerie et. al. African American Writers. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1993. 414p. Index. /GC 973.068 Af835/
Soodalter, Ron. Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader. New York: Atria Books, 2006. 318p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 So62h/
Starobin, Robert S., ed. Denmark Vesey: The Slave Conspiracy of 1822. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970. 185p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 975.702 C38den/
Stephenson, Wendell Holmes. Isaac Franklin: Slave Trader and Planter of the Old South. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana University Press, 1938. 368p. Index. Plantation records. /GC 975 St4i/
Stillwell, Paul, ed. The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993. 304p. Index. Appendices. Photographs. /GC 973.068 G565/
Taylor, Susie King. Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: An African American Woman's Civil War Memoir. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2006. 126p. Appendix. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 973.74 Aa1tays/
Thomas, Lamont D. Paul Cuffe: Black Entrepreneur and Pan-Africanist. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988. 187p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Blacks in the New World Series. /GC 974.4 T361pa/
Thornbrough, Emma Lou, ed. Black Reconstuctionists. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972. 182p. Index. Appendix. Bibliography. /GC 973.068 B56th/
Toppin, Edgar A. A Biographical History of Black in America Since 1528. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1971. 499p. Index. /GC 973.068 T628b/
Ullman, Victor. Look to the North Star: A Life of William King. Toronto, Canada: Umbrella Press, 1994. 256p. Illustrations. Index. Maps. /GC 971.301 EL3u/
Ulzen, T. P. Manus. Java Hill: An African Journey--A Nation's Evolution through Ten Generations of a Family Linking Four Continents. S.l.: Xlibris Corporation, 2013. 190p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 929.2 UL9ja/
Vaughn, Emily E. Black Snow(den), Warsaw(Benjamin Snowden and the Related Lines: A Wee Bit 'o' History of the Snowdens from Maryland to Ohio and to Warsaw, New York, by the Underground Railroad. Buffalo, NY: E. E. Vaughn, 1997. 198p. Family Group Sheets. Photographs. /GC 929.2 Sn635v/
Walker, Juliet E. K. Encyclopedia of African American Business History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 721p. Bibliographies. Index. /GC 973.068 En193w/
Warner, Lee H. Free Men in an Age of Servitude: Three Generations of a Black Family. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1992. 168p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 929.2 P942w/
Warren, Richard P. D., Sr. 20 Historical Black Natives of Charleston, South Carolina, Volume One. Charleston, SC: R. P. D. Warren, Sr., 2020. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 975.702 C38wrp/
Wedin, Carolyn. Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. 367p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 W416in/
Whitaker, Matthew C., ed. Icons of Black America: Breaking Barriers and Crossing Boundaries. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2011. 3 vols. Bibliographies. Photographs. /GC 929.11 Ic7wh v. 1-3
White, Barnetta McGhee. In Search of Kith and Kin: The History of a Southern Black Family. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1986. 208p. Appendices. Index. /GC 929.2 M1729w/
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. The Shelburne Black Loyalists: A Short Biography of All Blacks Emigrating to Shelburne County, Nova Scotia after the American Revolution, 1783. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Province of Nova Scotia, 2000. 294p. Bibliography. Index. /GC 971.601 Sh4w/
Who's Who Among Black Americans. Lake Forest, IL: Educational Communications, 1985. 1043p. Indices. /GC 973.068 W621/
Who's Who in Black Cincinnati: The 2003-2004 Edition. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing, 2003. 204p. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C49who 2003-2004/
Who's Who in Black Cincinnati: The 2005 Edition. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing, 2005. 260p. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C49who 2005/
Who's Who in Black Indianapolis: The 2005-2006 Edition. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing, 2005. 304p. Index. Photographs. /GC 977.202 IN3wb/
Who's Who in Black St. Louis: The 2004-2005 First Edition. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing, 2004. 272p. Indices. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 977.802 SA227WHO, 2004-2005/
Who's Who in Black St. Louis: The 2005-2006 Edition. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing, 2005. 300p. Indices. Photographs. /GC 977.802 SA227WHO, 2005-2006/
Wiencek, Henry. The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 H1264w/
Wiggins, David K., ed. Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. 459p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Ou82/
Wiggins, Rosalind Cobbs. Captain Paul Cuffe's Logs and Letters, 1808-1817: A Black Quaker's "Voice from Within the Veil". Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1996. 529p. Index. Illustrations. Bibliography. /GC 929.2 C8945c/
Wilkins, Carolyn Marie. Damn Near White: An African American Family's Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success. [Wilkins family] Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2010. 186p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 W651wil/
Willborn, C. N. John L. Girardeau (1825-98), Pastor to Slaves and Theologian of Causes: A Historical Account of the Life and Contributions of an Often Neglected Southern Presbyterian Minister and Theologian. Philadelphia, PA: C. N. Willborn, 2003. 379p. Appendix. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 929.102 P92wil/
Wills, Cheryl. Die Free: A Heroic Family Tale. Minneapolis, MN: Bascom Hill Publishing Group, 2010. 233p. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 929.2 W5799d/
Wills, Garry. Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 274p. Index. Notes. /GC 973.4 W685ne/
Wilson, Keith P. Honor in Command: Lt. Freeman S. Bowley's Civil War Service in the 30th United States Colored Infantry. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. 290p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.74 Aa1bova/
Winter, Kari J. The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 244p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974 W73b/
Wycliff, Don and David Krashna, eds. Black Domers: African-American Students at Notre Dame in Their Own Words. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. 376p. Index. Photographs. /GC 977.202 So8bd/
Young, Sandra Sandiford. A Different Journey: John Brown Russwurm, 1799-1851. Boston, MA: S. S. Young, 2004. 351p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 973.068 Y841di/