African Americans: Contents
Archives
Fiction
Museums and Research Centers
Published Primary Sources
Reports
Secondary Sources
Archives
Archives and Research Library of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
Detroit, MI. http://thewright.org/archives/
Bently Historical Library, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. http://bentley.umich.edu/legacysupport/detroit/detroit_search.php?heading=2
Genesee Historical Collections Center, University of Michigan-Flint Thompson Library. Flint, MI.
http://www.umflint.edu/archives/archives
Indiana Historical Society Collections. Indianapolis, IN. http://www.indianahistory.org/ourcollections#.Vy_e5hhBC4v Materials include Indiana ethnic history, 19th- and 20thcentury African American history, Indiana Women's History, and Indiana social history,
especially the records of social service organizations.
Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnhs.org/research Contains historic material, including
oral histories, personal papers, and government record, from American Indian, South,
East, and Southeast Asian; Latino/a, African, African American, communities in
Minnesota.
Western Reserve Historical Society. Cleveland, OH. http://www.wrhs.org/research/ Materials
concerning the history of Northeast Ohio, including collections on immigration, Jewish
Americans, Asian Indian Americans, African Americans, and LGBT communities.
Fiction
Brooks, Gwendolyn. A Street in Bronzeville. New York: Harper, 1945.
Flournoy, Angela. The Turner House. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Hughes, Langston. One-Way Ticket. New York : Alfred A. Knopf,1949.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved: A Novel. New York: Knopf, 1987.
Museums and Research Centers
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Detroit, MI. http://thewright.org/
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Cincinnati, OH. http://www.freedomcenter.org/
Published Primary Sources
Black, Timuel D. Bridges of Memory. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2003.
Dolinar, Brian. The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press,
2013.
Pate, Alexs D., Pamela R. Fletcher, and J. Otis Powell. Blues Vision: African American Writing
from Minnesota. Saint Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2015.
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Richards, Phillip M. An Integrated Boyhood: Coming of Age in White Cleveland. Kent, OH: Kent
State University Press, 2012.
Stange, Maren. Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943. New York: New Press,
2003.
Trotter, Otis. Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine. Athens, OH:
Ohio University Press, 2015.
Wilson, Sunnie, and John Cohassey. Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998.
Wright, Richard. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth. New York: Harper & Bros, 1945.
Reports
Indiana. Underground Railroad Research in Select Indiana Counties. Indianapolis: Division of
Historic Preservation and Archaeology, 2003.
KSTP-TV. Minnesota Pride, Minnesota Prejudice. VHS. Minneapolis: KSTP-TV, 1990.
Ohio Auditor of State. Blacks Immigrating to Ohio, 1861-1863. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical
Society, 1988.
Hughes, Elizabeth A. "Living Conditions for Small-Wage Earners in Chicago." Chicago:
Department of Public Welfare, 1925.
Secondary Sources
Anderson, Bridget L. Migration, Accommodation and Language Change: Language at the
Intersection of Regional and Ethnic Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Andrews, Gregg. Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle. Columbia,
MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011.
Baldwin, Davarian L. Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, & Black Urban
Life. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Bates, Beth Tompkins. The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Beasley, Nancy M. The Underground Railroad in DeKalb County, Illinois. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland & Company, 2013.
Bivens, Allen Lincoln. "Housing Migration of Black Cincinnatians in the 1950's and 1960's." MA
Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 1971.
Black, Timuel D. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's Second Generation of Black Migration.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2007.
Bone, Robert, Richard A. Courage, and Amritjit Singh. The Muse in Bronzeville African
American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 2011.
Brown, Maxine F. The Role of Free Blacks in Indiana's Underground Railroad: The Case of
Floyd, Harrison, and Washington Counties. Indianapolis: Indiana Department of Natural
Resources, 2001.
Bryant, Vinnie Vanessa. "Columbus, Ohio and the Great Migration." MA Thesis, Ohio State
University, 1983.
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Bunch-Lyons, Beverly A. Contested Terrain: African American Women Migrate from the South
to Cincinnati, Ohio, 1900-1950. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Chatelain, Marcia. South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2015.
Cooley, Verna Lucille. "Illinois and the Underground Railroad to Canada." MA Thesis, University
of Illinois, 1917.
Coulthard, Edmund, Morgan Freeman, and Nicholas Lemann. Take Me to Chicago. VHS.
Bethesda, MD: Discovery Channel, 1995.
Croisier, Anne Christine. "Detroit and Philadelphia: A Comparison of Black Suburbanization in
Two Metropolitan Areas." Ph.D. Diss, University of Michigan, 1993.
Davies, C. Shane, and Gary L. Fowler. "The Disadvantaged Black Female Household Head:
Migrants to Indianapolis." Southeastern Geographer. 11, no. 2 (1971): 113-120.
Davison, Victoria F., and Lyle William Shannon. Change in the Economic Absorption of
Immigrant Mexican-Americans and Negroes in Racine, Wisconsin between 1960 and
1971. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa, 1975.
Dawson, Elise Schebler, and Grayphenia Bayles. Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration,
1915-1940 : April 13, 1991-June 30, 1991 : Exhibit Guidebook. Des Moines, IA: State
Historical Society of Iowa, 1991.
De Medeiros, James. The Migration North. New York: Weigl Publishers, 2009.
Dickerson-Cousin, Christina. "'I Call You Cousins': Kinship, Religion, and Black-Indian Relations
in Nineteenth-Century Michigan," Ethnohistory. 61, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 79-98.
Dorsey, James. The Underground Railroad: Northeastern Illinois and Southeastern Wisconsin.
Zion, IL: Sons of Thunder Ministry, 2000.
Ellis, Jacqueline Elizabeth. "The Experience of Migration and Selected Perceptions of Older
Residents of the Waterloo Black Community." MA Thesis, University of Northern Iowa,
1983.
Frazier, Harriet C. Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 17631865. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co, 2004.
Gaston, Juanita. "The Changing Residential Pattern of Blacks in Battle Creek, Michigan: A
Study in Historical Geography." Ph.D. diss, Michigan State University, 1976.
Geib, Paul Edward. "The Late Great Migration: A Case Study of Southern Black Migration to
Milwaukee, 1940-1970." MA Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1993.
Goodall, Hurley C. Underground Railroad: The Invisible Road to Freedom Through Indiana.
Muncie, IN: National Park Service, 2000.
Goodwin, E. Marvin. Black Migration in America from 1915 to 1960: An Uneasy Exodus.
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990.
Grabow, Steven Harris. "Migration of Blacks and Whites: a Focus on Outlying Neighborhoods of
Cincinnati, Ohio." MA Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 1974.
Griffler, Keith P. Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground
Railroad in the Ohio Valley. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
Grim, Valerie. 2001. "From the Yazoo Mississippi Delta to the Urban Communities of the
Midwest: Conversations with Rural African American Women." Frontiers: A Journal of
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Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Gutsche, Robert E. A Transplanted Chicago: Race, Place and the Press in Iowa City. Jefferson,
NC: McFarland & Company, 2014.
Hagedorn, Ann. Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Hamilton, Roy L. "Expectations and Realities of a Migrant Group: Black Migration from the
South to Milwaukee, 1946-1958." MA Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1981.
Hamilton, Tullia Brown. Up from Canaan: The African American Journey from Mound Bayou to
St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo: PenUltimate Press, 2011.
Harden, Jacalyn D. Double Cross: Japanese Americans in Black and White Chicago.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Harshaw, John W. Cincinnati's West End Through Our Eyes. United States: CreateSpace,
2009.
Hart, Richard Evan. Lincoln's Springfield: The Underground Railroad. Springfield, IL: Sangamon
County Historical Society, 2006.
Hawkins, Homer C., and Richard W. Thomas. Blacks and Chicanos in Urban Michigan. Lansing,
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Hine, Darlene Clark, and John McCluskey. The Black Chicago Renaissance. Urbana :
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Hudson, J. Blaine. Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland.
Jefferson, NC.: McFarland & Co, 2002.
Jack, Bryan M. The St. Louis African American Community and the Exodusters. Columbia, MO:
University of Missouri Press, 2007.
Jackson, Ruby West, and Walter T. McDonald. Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua
Glover, Runaway Slave. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2007.
King, George. Goin' to Chicago. VHS. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1994.
Knupfer, Anne Meis. The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. Urbana, IL:
University of Illinois Press, 2006.
LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer. Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The
Geography of Resistance. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Lawson, Ellen NicKenzie. Moving on: Oral Histories of African American Migrants. Bainbridge
Island, WA.: E.N. Lawson, 1993.
Lehman, Christopher P. Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865: A History of
Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Jefferson, N.C.:
McFarland, 2011.
Lindquist, Charles N. The Antislavery-Underground Railroad Movement in Lenawee County,
Michigan, 1830-1860. Adrian, MI: Lenawee County Historical Society, 1999.
Lu, Marlene K., Bettie Davis, and Berky Davis. Walkin' the Wabash: An Exploration into the
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Martin, Elizabeth Anne. Detroit and the Great Migration, 1916-1929. Ann Arbor, MI: Bentley
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McClellan, Larry A. The Underground Railroad in Will County. Lockport, IL: Will County
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McClure, Stanley W. "The Underground Railroad in South Central Ohio." MA Thesis, Ohio State
University, 1932.
McKether, Willie L. "Voices in Transition: African-American Migration to Saginaw, Michigan:
1920-1960." Ph.D. Thesis, Wayne State University, 2005.
Michney, Todd Michael. "Changing Neighborhoods: Race and Upward Mobility in Southeast
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Miles, Norman Kenneth. "Home at Last: Urbanization of Black Migrants in Detroit, 1916-1929."
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Morgans, James Patrick. The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier: Escapes from
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