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• Civil Rights in America: Racial Voting Rights (revised edition; Washington: National Historic Landmarks Program, 2009), by Susan Salvatore (PDF at nps.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)
• 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)

• 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)

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

• Disfranchisement (New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, ca. 1912), by W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Message to the Black Movement, by Black Liberation Army (PDF page images at MSU)
• Protest Against the Robbery of the Colored Race by the Proposed Amendment of the Constitution, by George B. Cheever (page images at MOA)
• Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964; and Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Washington: GPO, 1966), by United States, ed. by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern Philanthropy Illustrated: How They Tried to Make a White Man of a Negro Twenty-Five Hundred Years Ago; Will the Experiment Succeed Any Better Now? (1868) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Negro as a Political Problem: Oration by the Hon. George W. Williams of Massachusetts at the Asbury Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1884 (Boston: A. Mudge and Son, printers, 1884), by George Washington Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Political Machinery vs. Reform, or, Two Speeches That Were Too True for the Political Boss to Allow Published: A Speech of a United States Senator and a Paper of a Prominent Educator (c1908) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proceedings of the Convention of the Republican Party of Louisiana, Held at Economy Hall, New Orleans, September 25, 1865, and of the Central Executive Committee of the Friends of Universal Suffrage of Louisiana, Now "The Central Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Louisiana" (New Orleans: Printed at the New Orleans Tribune Office, 1865), by Republican Party (La.) Convention
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Voice of the Third Generation: A Discussion of the Race Question for the Benefit of Those Who Believe That the United States Is a White Man's Country and Should Be Governed By White Men (Chattanooga, TN: The author, c1906), by Henry P. Fry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838), by Robert Purvis
  • HTML and page images with commentary at hsp.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The 1619 Project (special issue of The New York Times Magazine, with supplementary materials; 2019), ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones (PDF with commentary at pulitzercenter.org)
• Manuscript for a Proposed Text Book in Negro History (only volume published; typescript covering up to early 19th century; Tulsa, OK: Tulsa Public Schools, ca. 1934), by A. Julian Lee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Black Experience in America, by Norman Coombs (Gutenberg text)
• The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America (Boston: The Stratford Co., 1924), by W. E. B. Du Bois (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Historical Romance of the American Negro (Baltimore: Press of Thomas and Evans, 1902), by Charles H. Fowler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers and as Citizens, Together With a Preliminary Consideration of The Unity of The Human Family, an Historical Sketch of Africa, and an Account of The Negro Governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia (2 volumes; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by George Washington Williams
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and page images
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and page images
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Mob Violence and the American Negro: "My Experience in the Sunny South" (1919), by Velley Loyn Lester (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Narrative of the Negro (Washington: Press of R.L. Pendleton, 1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African descent (Washington: American Negro Academy, 1914), by John Wesley Cromwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Negro in Our History (c1922), by Carter Godwin Woodson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A New Negro for a New Century: An Accurate and Up-to-Date Record of the Upward Struggles of the Negro Race (Chicago: American Publishing House, ca. 1900), ed. by John E. MacBrady, contrib. by Booker T. Washington, Norman B. Wood, and Fannie Barrier Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Progress of a Race: or the Remarkable Advancement of the American Negro (new edition, some early pages missing (see earlier edition for full B. T. Washington introduction); Naperville, IL: J. L. Nichols and Co., c1920), ed. by J. L. Nichols, W. H. Crogman, H. F. Kletzing, and J. W. Gibson, contrib. by Margaret James Murray Washington, Charles M. Melden, Matthew W. Dogan, Albon L. Holsey, and Robert Russa Moton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at archive.org
• Progress of a Race: or the Remarkable Advancement of the Colored American (revised and enlarged edition; Naperville, IL: J. L. Nichols and Co., c1912), ed. by J. W. Gibson, W. H. Crogman, and H. F. Kletzing, contrib. by Booker T. Washington and Fannie Barrier Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A School History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1890, Combined With the History of the Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia (revised edition, 2 parts in 1 volume; New York: I. Goldmann, 1911), by Edward A. Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890, With a Short Introduction as to the Origin of the Race; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia (first edition; Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, 1890), by Edward A. Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890, With a Short Introduction as to the Origin of the Race; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia (revised edition; Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1893), by Edward A. Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A School History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1890, With a Short Introduction as to the Origin of the Race; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia (revised edition; Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co., 1895), by Edward A. Johnson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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 Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery (2 volumes; New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1909), by Booker T. Washington
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Twentieth Century Negro Literature: or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro (Toronto et al.: J. L. Nichols and Co., c1902), ed. by Daniel Wallace Culp (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• History of the Black Man: An Authentic Collection of Historical Information on the Early Civilization of the Descendants of Ham, the Son of Noah; History of the Black Kingdoms of Ghana, Melle, Songhay and Hansas, and the Early American Negro (ca. 1921), by Joseph Julius Jackson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The National Cyclopedia of the Colored Race (only volume published; Montgomery, AL: National Pub. Co., 1919), ed. by Clement Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of George Henry; Together with a Brief History of the Colored People in America (Providence, RI: H.I. Gould, 1894), by George Henry (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1992), ed. by Frank McGlynn and Seymour Drescher (page images at Pitt)
• The Negro as a Political Problem: Oration by the Hon. George W. Williams of Massachusetts at the Asbury Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1884 (Boston: A. Mudge and Son, printers, 1884), by George Washington Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The South Since the War, As Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas, by Sidney Andrews (page images at MOA)
• Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War, by P. K. Rose (HTML at webharvest.gov)

• History of the American Negro in the Great World War: His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe (1919), ed. by William Allison Sweeney (Gutenberg text)
• A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894, Respectfully Submitted to the Nineteenth Century Civilization in 'the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave' (Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1895), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML at NIU)
• The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States (reprint of 1895 pamphlet), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Forgotten Patriots: African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War, A Guide to Service, Sources and Studies (second edition; Washington: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, c2008), ed. by Eric Grundset (PDF with supplementand other commentary at dar.org)

• Negro History and Literature: A Selected Annotated Bibliography (New York: American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, 1968) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• American Traveler's Guide to Negro History (third edition; 1967), by American Oil Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• The Negro as a Political Problem: Oration by the Hon. George W. Williams of Massachusetts at the Asbury Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1884 (Boston: A. Mudge and Son, printers, 1884), by George Washington Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War, by P. K. Rose (HTML at webharvest.gov)

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