For more recent additions to the library collection, check the library catalog here.
Additional materials can be found in the Pamphlet File.
326 ADA | Great negroes past and present | Adams, Russell L | 1963 |
326 APP | Africana: the encyclopedia of the African American experience | Appiah, Kwame Anthony | 1999 |
326 BEN | Before the Mayflower: a history of the Negro in America 1619 -1962 | Bennett, Lerone, Jr | 1962 |
326 BEN | Before the Mayflower: a history of the Negro in America ca 1619-1964 | Bennett, Lerone, Jr | 1966 |
326 BOS | Lizzie’s story: a slave family’s journey to freedom | Boswell, Clarice | 2002 |
326 BUR | Black Roots: a beginner’s guide to tracing the African American family tree | Burroughs,Tony | 2001 |
326 DAY | Locating free African American ancestors: a beginner’s guide | Day, Aaron L | 2003 |
326 GAT | Finding Oprah’s Roots: finding your own | Gates, Henry Louis, Jr | 2007 |
326 GIB | Progress of a race | Gibson, J. W. | 1912 |
326 HEN | Autobiography of The Reverend Josiah Henson | Henson, Josiah | 1969 |
326 HUS | 1936 delegates to the National Negro Congress | Husband, Lori | 1998 |
326 JAC | Incidents in the life of a slave girl | Jacobs, Harriet | 2001 |
326 JOU | Index to the Journal of Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly issues 1980-1990 | 1991 | |
326 RIC | Evidences of progress among colored people | Richings, G F | 1905 |
326 ROS | Black genesis: a resource book for African-American genealogy | Rose, James M | 2003 |
326 SEC | Guide to tracing your African American Civil War ancestor | Secret, Jeanette Braxton | 1997 |
326 SIM | Bibliography of African American family history at the Newberry Library | Simpson, Jack | 2005 |
326 SMI | Genealogist’s guide to discovering your African-American ancestors | Smith, Franklin Carter | 2003 |
326 STR | Slave genealogy: a research guide with case studies | Streets, David H | 1986 |
326 THA | Case studies in Afro-American genealogy | Thackery, David T | 1989 |
326 THA | Finding your African-American ancestors: a beginner’s guide | Thackery, David T | 2000 |
326 TRU | Black America: a bibliography of the holdings of the Purdue University Calumet Campus Library | Trusty, Lance | 1976 |
326 TYL | Underground railroad resources in the United States theme study | Tyler-McGraw, Marie | 1998 |
326 WAL | Black genealogy: how to begin | Walker, James D | 1977 |
326 WAL | Black Indian genealogy research: African American ancestors among the Five Civilized Tribes | Walton-Raji, Angela Y | 1993 |
326 WEI | American Negro slavery: a modern reader | Weinstein, Allen | 1968 |
326 WIT | Bibliography of sources for black family history in the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Department | Witcher, Curt Bryan | 1989 |
326 WOO | Finding a place called home: a guide to African-American genealogy and historical identity | Woodtor, Dee Parmer | 1999 |
326.92 MON | Autobiography of a runaway slave | Montejo, Esteban | 1968 |
331 BRA | Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: its origins and development | Brazeal, Brailsford R | 1946 |
331 SAN | Miles of smiles, years of struggle: stories of Black Pullman porters | Santino, Jack | 1991 |
929.3 SEL | Selected bibliography of print and non-print Afro-American genealogy | 1982 | |
973.8 FAM CD | Freedman’s Bank records | Family Search | 2000 |
973.8 HER CD | World immigration series : African Americans in the 1870 US Federal census | Heritage Quest | 2000 |
973.8 LEC | Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative Of The Negro Cavalry In The West | Leckie, William H | 1967 |
974.426 D-CAR | Black Families in Hampden County, Massachusetts 1650-1955 | Carvalho, Joseph, III | 1984 |
975 H-OLM | Slave States | Olmstead, Frederick Law | 1959 |
975.2 D-CAR | Maryland slave owners and superintendents 1798 | Carothers, Bettie Stirling | 1974 |
975.3 H-HUT | Anacostia story, 1608-1930 | Hutchinson, Louise Daniel | 1977 |
976.2 D-WEB | African Americans: a Mississippi source book | Webster, Anne L | 2001 |
976.9425 H-SIN | History of the Baptist Church at the Stamping Ground, KY 1795- | Singer, J W | 1970 |
977 H-SMI | Liberty and Free Soil parties in the Northwest | Smith, Theodore Clarke | 1967 |
977.239 D-BAR | Knox County, Indiana early land reocrd and court indexes (includes records of slaves and masters) | Barekman, June B | 1973 |
977.252 D-SPE | Admission record Indianapolis Asylum for Friendless colored children | Spears, Jean E | 1978 |
977.3 A-ILL | Illinois African American resource guide | 1999 | |
977.3 D-TRE | River roads to freedom | Tregillis, Helen Cox | 1988 |
977.3 H-GOO | Eighth Illinois | Goode, W T | 1899 |
977.3 T-ILL | Illinois generations: a traveler’s guide to African American heritage | nd | |
977.311 D-CIT | Chicago’s Black population Chicago Dept of Planning and Development | 1975 | |
977.311 D-HUS | 1930 hallelujah contestants | Husband, Lori | 1992 |
977.311 D-HUS | Chicago World War I draftees districts 3,4,5 and 70 | Husband, Lori | 1990 |
977.311 D-HUS | Deaths in the Chicago Defender 1910-1920 | Husband, Lori | 1990 |
977.311 H-FAI | Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church 2004 convocation | 2004 | |
977.311 H-FEL | Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church 1999 cotillion/beautillion | 1999 | |
977.311 H-REG | Black Chicago’s first century Volume 1, 1833-1900 | Reed, Christopher Robert | 2005 |
977.3162 D-ALA | Index of headstones in Lincoln Cemetery Chicago , Illinois Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago | Alabama Study Group | 1999 |
977.3167 H-MCC | Final ministry of Amanda Berry Smith: an orphanage in Harvey, Illinois | McClellan, Larry | 1994 |
977.3167 H-MCC | Final ministry of Amanda Berry Smith: an orphanage in Harvey, Illinois 1895-1918 | McClellan, Larry | 1997 |
977.5 H-ETH | Black settlers in rural Wisconsin | Cooper, Zachary | 1994 |
978 H-BUR | Black, buckskin, and blue: African American Scouts and soldiers on the Western frontier | Burton, Art T | 1999 |
F H JONES | Descendants of Shandy Wesley Jones and Evalina Love Jones: the story of an African American family of Tuscaloosa, Alabama | Pinkard, Ophelia Taylor | 1993 |