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• African Americans -- Rhode Island -- Social conditions
• African Americans -- South Carolina -- Social conditions
• African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions
• African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions

• Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2022), by Hannah Noel (PDF at OAPEN)
• As Victim to Victims: An American Negro Laments With Jews (New York: Fortuny's, c1941), by James Samuel Stemons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black Rage Confronts the Law (New York: New York University Press, c1997), by Paul Harris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Why Negroes Should Oppose the War (published under "J. R. Johnson" pseudonym; New York: Pioneer Publishers, ca. 1940), by C. L. R. James
  • page images at Pitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Negro Slavery, Then and Now (Chicago: Revolutionary Workers League, 1939), by Revolutionary Workers League of the U.S. (page images at HathiTrust)
• All White America (Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1937), by Thomas Theodore McKinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eagle Clippings (Brooklyn, NY: D.B. Fulton, ca. 1907), by Jack Thorne
  • illustrated HTML at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965; online version omits tables and graphs), by United States Department of Labor, contrib. by Daniel P. Moynihan (HTML at dol.gov)
• A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States, Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia (1921), by Benjamin Brawley (Gutenberg text)
• The Struggle for Negro Equality (second enlarged edition; New York: Printed for the Socialist Workers Party by Pioneer Press, 1943), by John Saunders and Albert Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Legal Status of the Negro (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940), by Charles S. Mangum (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Blind African Slave, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace, by Boyrereau Brinch and Benjamin F. Prentiss (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood and Co., 1875), by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society, ed. by Gerald David Jaynes and Robin M. Williams (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro (Publications of the American Economic Association v11 #1-3; 1896), by Frederick L. Hoffman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Children of the Slaves (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920), by Stephen Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Autobiography of Nicholas Said, A Native of Bournou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa (Memphis, TN: Shotwell and Co., Publishers, 1873), by Nicholas Said
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood and Co., 1875), by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Children of the Slaves (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920), by Stephen Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Racism in America: A Reader (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, c2020), contrib. by Annette Gordon-Reed (multiple formats with commentary at Harvard)

• American Negro Problems (Workers Library #9; New York: Workers Library Publishers, c1928), by John Pepper
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • reprint: multiple formats at archive.org
• Recreation and Amusement Among Negroes in Washington, D.C.: A Sociological Analysis of the Negro in an Urban Environment (Washington: Howard University Press, 1927), by William Henry Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature (Chicago: Ida B. Wells, 1893), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, and F. I. Barnett (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Social and Mental Traits of the Negro: Research into the Conditions of the Negro Race in Southern Towns; A Study in Race Traits, Tendencies, and Prospects (1910), by Howard Washington Odum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• For a Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question (third printing, 1959), by Harry Haywood (HTML at marxists.org)

• Civil Rights in America: Racial Desegregation of Public Accommodations (revised edition; Washington: National Historic Landmarks Program, 2009), by Susan Salvatore (PDF at nps.gov)
• Segregation and Common Sense (Boston: Forum Pub. Co., c1961), by O. R. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Segregation and the South (Greenwood, MS: Association of Citizens' Councils, ca. 1957), by Thomas P. Brady (page images at Preservica)
• Segregation: Is It Justified? (second edition; Columbus, GA: Muscogee Pub. Co., c1957), by Richard W. Edmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Now is the Time (New York: Viking Press, 1955), by Lillian Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Segregation of the White Race Must be Preserved: A Declaration (New Orleans: The Society, 1955), by Society for the Preservation of State Government and Racial Integrity (page images at Preservica)
• You and Segregation (Birmingham, AL: Vulcan Press, c1955), by Herman E. Talmadge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toward Better Race Relations (New York: Woman's Press, c1949), by Dothory Sabiston, ed. by Margaret Hiller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unequal Access: The Desegregation of Public Libraries in Northern Virginia (Fairfax, VA: Fairfax County Public Library, 2021), by Chris Barbuschak and Suzanne S. LaPierre (PDF at fairfaxcounty.gov)
• House Un-American Activities Committee: Bulwark of Segregation (Los Angeles: National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1964), by Anne Braden (PDF at crmvet.org)
• The Inaugural Address of Governor George C. Wallace, January 14, 1963, Montgomery, Alabama (prepared text; 1963), by George C. Wallace (PDF at alabama.gov)
• Race Mixing a Religious Fraud (ca. 1959), by D. B. Red (page images at Preservica)
• Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded From the Street Cars, by B. P. Hunt (page images at MOA)
• The Wall Between (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1958), by Anne Braden (page images at HathiTrust)
• God the Original Segregationist (c1955), by Carey L. Daniel (page images at USM)
• The "Negro Pew": Being an Inquiry Concerning the Propriety of Distinctions in the House of God, on Account of Color (Boston: I. Knapp, 1837), by Harvey Newcomb (multiple formats at Google)
• People vs. Property: Race Restrictive Covenants in Housing (Nashville: Fisk University Press, 1947), by Herman H. Long and Charles Spurgeon Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Albany (typescript special report; Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1962), by Howard Zinn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Racial Conflict a Home Front Danger: Lessons of the Detroit Riot (1943), by National Urban League (page images at HathiTrust)

• Racial Amalgamation Propaganda Versus Segregation and Racial Cooperation: An Address (Jackson, MS: State Department of Public Welfare, ca. 1963), by Fred A. Ross (page images at Preservica)

• Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), by Guion Griffis Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or, A Story Based on Facts (1911), by I. E. Lowery (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days" (original newspaper serial version, with new introduction; from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of 1948), by Ray Sprigle, contrib. by Bill Steigerwald (illustrated HTML at post-gazette.com)
• To Live and Die in Dixie (New York: Southern Workers Defense Committee, ca. 1936), by Robert Wood, contrib. by Southern Workers Defense Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gastonia: A Class Case and a Class Verdict (1929), by International Labor Defense, contrib. by John Louis Engdahl (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by R. Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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