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• African Americans -- History -- Sources

• Civil Rights and African Americans: A Documentary History (with new preface; Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, c1991), ed. by Albert P. Blaustein and Robert L. Zangrando (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Free at Last: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2008), by Michael Jay Friedman (PDF at state.gov)
• The Color of Representation: Congressional Behavior and Black Interests (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Kenny J. Whitby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Justice for All: The Legacy of Thurgood Marshall (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Mildred Sola Neely (PDF at state.gov)
• Our Home Colony: A Treatise on the Past, Present and Future of the Negro Race in America (Steubenville, OH: Herald Printing Co., c1908), by Moses Fleetwood Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Intimidation and the Number of White and Colored Voters in Louisiana in 1876, As Shown by Statistical Data Derived From Republican Official Reports (New York: Picayune Office Job Print., 1877), by Stanford E. Chaillé (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Aiken (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Black Citizenship and Authenticity in the Civil Rights Movement (New York and London: Routledge, c2013), by Randolph Hohle
  • PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org

• Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Global Freedom Struggle (online encyclopedia based on Carson-edited "Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia"), contrib. by Clayborne Carson (illustrated HTML at Stanford)

• To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers From World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Judson MacLaury (PDF at Tennessee)

• Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Angela D. Dillard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Aiken (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Statement From Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia (ca. 1921), by Hugh Manson Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Basic Documents on the Black Struggle (documents from 1939 and 1948 reprinted ca. 1970), ed. by C. L. R. James (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa (A Convert to Christianity); With a Description of That Part of the World; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants (Detroit: G.. E. Pomeroy and Co., 1854), by Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, ed. by Samuel Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Right to Vote (from the Milestone Documents in the National Archive series; Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1987), contrib. by Nancy E. Allyn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, by Michael Plunkett (HTML at Virginia)