African American History Resources

@ Pequot Library

Arranged by category (alphabetically), from most recently published to earliest published.

Biography arranged by subject’s last name.

Women [arranged from most recent to earliest]:

The Match:  Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton:  How Two Outsiders – One Black, the Other Jewish – Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History.  Schoenfeld, Bruce, 2004.    796.342 SCHOENFELD

Freedom’s Daughters:  The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970.   Olson, Lynne, 2001.   323.092 OLSON

Hidden in Plain View:  the Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.  Tobin, Jacqueline, 1999.     973.7 TOBIN

Love Poems.   Giovanni, Nikki, 1997.     811.54 GIOVANNI

Anything We Love Can Be Saved:  a Writer’s Activism.   Walker, Alice, 1997.     818.54 WALKER

My Soul is a Witness:  African-American Women’s Spirituality.   Wade-Gayles, Gloria, ed., 1995.  

277.3 MY

Double Stitch:   Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters.  Bell-Scott, Patricia, 1991.

810.8 DOUBLE

Pride of Family:  Four Generations of American Women of Color.   Ione, Carole, 1991.   920 IONE

Celia, a Slave.  McLaurin, Melton Alonza, 1991.  345.73 MCLAUREN

The Women of Plums:  Poems in the Voices of Slave Women.  Kendrick, Dolores, 1989.  811.54 KENDRICK

Within the Plantation Household:  Black and White Women of the Old South.  Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1988.     325 FOX

In Search of Sisterhood:  Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement.     Giddings, Paula, 1988.     378.198 GIDDINGS

Black Women Writers (1950-1980):  a Critical Evaluation.   Evans, Mari, ed., 1984.  810.9 EVANS

The Free Women of Petersburg:  Status and Culture in a Southern Town.   Lebsock, Suzanne, 1984.     305.4 LEBSOCK

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.  Jacobs, Harriet Ann, 1983.     326 BRENT

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens:  Womanist Prose.  Walker, Alice, 1983.     818.54 WA

Women, Race & Class.  Davis, Angela Yvonne, 1981.     305.4 DAVIS