African American women -- Political activity -- Illinois -- History
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Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1998), by Wanda A. Hendricks (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
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Filed under: African American women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century- Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2021), by Riché Richardson (PDF at OAPEN)
- Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2021), by Riché Richardson (PDF at OAPEN)
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The author, 1850; main text as reprinted by Oxford University Press in 1991), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Aunt Judy's Story: A Tale From Real Life, Written for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Fair (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1855), by Matilda G. Thompson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction, ed. by Hallie Q. Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Shadow and Sunshine, by Eliza Suggs
- Women of Achievement (Chicago: Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, c1919), by Benjamin Brawley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Women of Distinction: Remarkable in Works and Invincible in Character (Raleigh, NC: L. A. Scruggs, 1893), by L. A. Scruggs, contrib. by Josephine J. Turpin Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gospel Trailblazer: An African-American Preacher's Historic Journey Across Racial Lines (c2003), by Howard O. Jones (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Yevette Richards (page images at Pitt)
- An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist (Chicago: Meyer and Brother, 1893), by Amanda Smith, contrib. by J. M. Thoburn
- From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, ca. 1890), by Lucy A. Delaney
- Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (New York: The author, 1861), by Louisa Picquet and Hiram Mattison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Boston: For the Author, 1875), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Battle Creek, MI: For the author, 1878), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"; Also, a Memorial Chapter, Giving the Particulars of Her Last Sickness and Death (Battle Creek, MI: Review and Herald Office, 1884), by Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert, and Frances W. Titus
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The Author, 1850), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld
- Deaconess Manual of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1902), by Abraham Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Slave Girl's Story: Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold (Brooklyn: The Author, 1898), by Kate Drumgoold (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Portraits in Color: The Lives of Colorful Negro Women (New York, Pageant Press, c1962), by Gwendolyn Cherry, Ruby Thomas, and Pauline Willis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aunt Sally, or, The Cross the Way of Freedom: A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan (Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858), by Isaac Williams (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of Phebe Ann Jacobs (ca. 1850), by Mrs. T. C. Upham (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815 (Boston: James Loring, 1832), by Rebecca Warren Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave (Nashville: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, 1897), by Nina Hill Robinson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Black Worker: A Documentary History From Colonial Times to the Present (8 volumes, originally published 1978-1984; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), ed. by Philip Sheldon Foner and Ronald L. Lewis, contrib. by Keona K. Ervin
- Volume I (The Black Worker to 1896): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
- Volume II (The Black Worker During the Era of the National Labor Union): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
- Volume III (The Black Worker During the Era of the Knights of Labor): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
- Volume IV (The Black Worker During the Era of the American Federation of Labor and the Railroad Brotherhoods): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
- Volume V (The Black Worker From 1900 to 1919): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
- Volume VI (The Era of Post-War Prosperity and the Great Depression, 1920-1936): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
- Volume VII (The Black Worker from the Founding of the CIO to the AFL-CIO Merger, 1936-1955): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
- Volume VIII (The Black Worker Since the AFL-CIO Merger, 1955-1980): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
- Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1998), by Wanda A. Hendricks (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Retrieving African-American Women's History: A Methodological Guide to Manuscript Sources in the Special Collections Library at Duke University, by Jennifer L. Morgan, ed. by Virginia Daley (illustrated HTML at Duke)
- Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne, Written From the Sea Islands of South Carolina, 1862-1884 (Cambridge, MA: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1912), by Laura M. Towne, ed. by Rupert Sargent Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Voice from the South, By a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892), by Anna J. Cooper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- John Francis Snyder: Selected Writings (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Society, 1962), by John Francis Snyder, ed. by Clyde C. Walton, contrib. by Phyllis Connolly and Melvin L. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Illinois As It Is, by Frederick Gerhard (page images at MOA)
- A History of Illinois, From its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847 (2 volumes; Chicago: Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 1945-1946), by Thomas Ford, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Settlement of Illinois from 1830 to 1850 (dissertation, published as Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin History series #220 (history series v1 #4), 1908), by William Vipond Pooley
- A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (partial serial archives)
- Mid-America (partial serial archives)
- Illinois Catholic Historical Review (full serial archives)
- Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk (Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834), by Black Hawk, ed. by J. B. Patterson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk (c1882), by Black Hawk, ed. by J. B. Patterson
- Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk (1833 edition), by Black Hawk (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Record of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in the Black Hawk War, 1831-32, and in the Mexican war, 1846-8 (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, state printer, 1882), by Illinois Military and Naval Department, contrib. by Isaac H. Elliott
- Life and Services of Colonel James J. Healy (1913), by C. C. Bowsfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days Upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and Over the Old Natchez Trace (Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1924), by Otto A. Rothert (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Chicago: Past, Present, Future, by John Stephen Wright (page images at MOA)
- The Story of Chicago and National Development, 1534-1910 (Chicago: Little Chronicle Co., c1909), by Eleanor Atkinson, ed. by Little Chronicle Company (page images at HathiTrust)
- History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West, by E. J. Goodspeed (page images at MOA)
- Sketches of Childhood and Girlhood: Chicago, 1847-1864 (c1925), by Cornelia Gray Lunt
- The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1991), by Harold L. Platt (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)
- A Classic Town: The Story of Evanston, by "An Old Timer" (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1891), by Frances E. Willard (HTML at NIU)
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