Research Guides: Research Guide for Primary Sources on Civil Rights: Reference Sources

Reference Sources

Negro yearbook. Tuskegee Institute, Ala. : Negro Year Book Pub. Co., 1914-1952(?)
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--Continues: Negro year book and annual encyclopedia of the Negro. Tuskegee, Alb.: Monroe N. Work, [1912-1913] 2 v.
--HOLLIS Record
HathiTrust 1912-1922
In Internet Archive 1931-1932 -- 1937-1938 -- 1947 -- 1952

Guide to African American and African primary sources at Harvard University, by Barbara A. Burg, Richard Newman, Elizabeth E. Sandager. Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 2000, 217 p
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Internet Archive full text

Revealing documents: a guide to African American manuscript sources in the Schlesinger Library and the Radcliffe College Archives, by Susan J. von Salis. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1993, 174 p.
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Anthologies of African American Writing, Lists and indexes anthologies, often citing notices and reviews, with illustrative material.

Black list; the concise reference guide to publications and broadcasting media of Black America, Africa and the Caribbean. New York, Panther House, 1970, 289 p.
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The Black resource guide. Washington, D.C.: Ben Johnson, 1981-[1994], 1981-10th ed. (1993-94).
HOLLIS Record

African-American Studies Center: Historical and contemporary information documenting African diaspora and African American history and experience. Includes encyclopedias and other reference works covering all aspects of the African American past. Best place to begin research.

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history: the Black experience in the Americas, ed. by Colin A. Palmer. 2nd ed. Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. 6 v.
Lamont | REFERENCE | E185 .E54 2006
Widener | RR 4781.44.5

African American Studies Center includes encyclopedias and other reference works covering all aspects of the African American past, including:
--Africana
--Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
--Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present|Black Women in America, Second Edition
--African American National Biography

Encyclopedia of Black folklore and humor, ed. by Henry D. Spalding. Middle Village, NY: J. David Publishers, 1990, 523 p.
Widener WID-LC PN6231.N5 S6 1990
001980815

Encyclopedia of slave resistance and rebellion, ed. by Junius P. Rodriguez. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. 2 v.
Widener | WID-LC | E447 .E53 2007

Slavery in the United States: a social, political, and historical encyclopedia, ed. by Junius P. Rodriguez. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007. 2 v.
Widener | RR 4781.41.90

The Harvard guide to African-American history, ed. by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham et al. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001, 923 p. + 1 computer optical disc Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | E185 .H326 2001 CD-ROM in pocket of inside back cover.
Harvard University Archives | HU 137.6932.20
Kennedy Sch of Gov | Ref | E185 .H326 2001 Consult Circ. Desk for accompanying CD-ROM
Lamont | E185 .H326 2001
Lamont | REFERENCE | E185 .H326 2001
Law School | Reference | E185 .H326 2001
Widener | WID-LC | RR 4781.88 accompanying CD shelved in Harvard Depository
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The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights: from emancipation to the twenty-first century, ed. by Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek. 2nd ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003, 2 v.
Widener | RR 4781.41.52

Chronologies

African American almanac: day-by-day Black history, by Leon T. Ross and Kenneth A. Mimms. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997, 177 p.
Widener | WID-LC | E185 .R815 1997x

Bibliographies

Look for specialized subject bibliographies in the HOLLIS Catalog: Search <African Americans civil rights [Keyword search] and bibliography [Subject Keyword search]> on Expanded Search screen.

The 1960s: an annotated bibliography of social and political movements in the United States, by Rebecca Jackson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992, 237 p.
Lamont | HN59.Z99 J33 1992x
Widener | WID-LC | HN59.Z99 J33 1992