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• The Negro in the Slaughtering and Meat-Packing Industry in Chicago (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932), by Alma Herbst (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Let Freedom Ride the Rails (1954), by National Negro Labor Council (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro and the UAW: Labor, American Politics and the Struggle for Equality (New York: New York Executive Committee, Left Wing (Majority) Tendency, Young Peoples Socialist League, 1963), by Michael Shute (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925: A Study in American Economic History (New York: Vanguard Press, c1927), by Charles H. Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Negro (International Pamphlets #18; New York: International Pamphlets, 1932), by James S. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Negro (International Pamphlets #18, second edition; New York: International Pamphlets, 1932), by James S. Allen (PDF at flvc.org)
• Facts concerning the freedmen : their capacity and their destiny / collected and published by the Emancipation League. (Boston: : Press of Commercial Printing House, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro Laborer: A Word to Him, by W. H. Councill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Occupations of the Negroes, by Henry Gannett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Disadvantages and Opportunities of the Colored Youth, by Reverdy C. Ransom (Gutenberg ebook)
• Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States: The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12, by Archibald Henry Grimké (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• The Negro at Work in New York City: A Study in Economic Progress, by George Edmund Haynes (Gutenberg ebook)

• History of Negro Servitude in Illinois, and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864 (Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co., 1904), by Norman Dwight Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1922), by Chicago Commission on Race Relations (multiple formats at archive.org)
• De Mau Mau: A Factual Account of Racism in the White Press (ca. 1973), by De Mau Mau Defense Fund (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Colored People of Chicago: An Investigation Made for the Juvenile Protective Association, by Louise de Koven Bowen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot, by Chicago Commission on Race Relations (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Chicago Race Riots, July, 1919 (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1919), by Carl Sandburg, contrib. by Walter Lippmann
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  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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)

• 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)

• Proceedings of the Illinois State Convention of Colored Men, assembled at Galesburg, October 16th, 17th, and 18th, containing the state and national addresses promulgated by it, with a list of the delegates composing it. (Chicago : Church, Goodman and Donnelley, printers, 1867), by Illinois State Convention of Colored Men (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proceedings of the Illinois State Convention of Colored Men, assembled at Galesburg, October 16th, 17th, and 18th, containing the state and national addresses promulgated by it, with a list of the delegates composing it. (Chicago : Church, Goodman and Donnelley, printers, 1867), by Illinois State Convention of Colored Men (page images at HathiTrust)