African American Subject Funnel Project

AFRICAN AMERICAN CATALOGING REFERENCE SOURCES

Compiled by Betty M. Culpepper and Ardie Myers
Library of Congress
Updated: December 2003

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Abajian, James de T. Blacks in Selected Newspapers, Censuses, and Other Sources: An Index to Names and Subjects. Boston, Mass: G.K. Hall, 1985.

Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955. Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 76. Detroit, Mich: Gale Research, 1988.

Afro-American Poets Since 1955. Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 41. Detroit, Mich: Gale Research Co, 1985.

Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance. Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 50. Detroit, Mich: Gale, 1986.

Aguet, Isabelle. A Pictorial History of the Slave Trade. Geneve: Minerva, 1971.

Andrews, William L., Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris. The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Bell & Howell Co and others. Index to Black Newspapers. Wooster, Ohio: Indexing Center, UMI, 1977-1986.

Bergman, Peter M. The Chronological History of the Negro in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.

Biddle, Stanton F. The African American Yellow Pages: A Comprehensive Resource Guide and Directory. 1st ed ed. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.

Black Resource Guide. Washington, D.C.: R.B. Johnson, 1990.

Blassingame, John W., Mae Henderson, and Jessica M. Dunn. Anti-slavery Newspapers and Periodicals. Reference Publications in Afro-American Studies. Boston: G.K.Hall, 1980-1984.

Bloom, Harold. Modern Black American Fiction Writers: Writers of English. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.

Bogle, Donald. Blacks in American Films and Television: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Pub., 1988.

Bogle, Donald. Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Bolden, Tonya. The Book of African-American Women 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters. Holbrook, Mass: Adams Media, 1996.

Burkett, Randall K., Nancy Hall Burkett, and Henry Louis Gates. Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index. Alexandria: Chadwyck-Healey, 1991.

Cantor, George. Historic Black Landmarks: A Traveler's Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink,1991.

Clay, William L. Just Permanent Interests: Black Americans in Congress,
1870-1991. New York: Amistad Press, 1992.

Contemporary Black Biography. Detroit: Gale Research Inc, 1992-

Cunard, Nancy. Negro: An Anthology. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1970.

Danky, James Philip and Maureen E. Hady. African-American Newspapers and Periodicals a National Bibliography. Harvard University Press Reference Library.

Davis, Arthur Paul, J. Saunders Redding, and Joyce Ann Joyce. The New Cavalcade: African American Writing From 1760 to the Present. Washington, D.C: Howard University Press, 1991-1992.

Davis, Thadious M. and Trudier Harris. Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 38. Detroit, Mich: Gale Research Co, 1985.

Directory of African American Religious Bodies: A Compendium by the Howard University School of Divinity. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1995.

Draper, James P. Black Literature Criticism Excerpts From Criticism of the Most Significant
Works of Black Authors Over the Past 200 Years. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992.

DuPree, Sherry Sherrod. African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement: An Annotated Bibliography. Religious Information Systems: Garland Reference Library of Social Science: Religious Information Systems Series, v. 526. vol. 4. New York: Garland,1996.

Fisk University. Library. Dictionary catalog of the Negro collection of the Fisk University Library, Nashville, Tennessee. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1974.

Franklin, John Hope and August Meier. Black leaders of the twentieth century. Urbana; University of Illinois Press, 1982.

Gates, Henry Louis and Nellie Y. McKay. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1996.

Hallie Q. Brown Memorial Library. Index to Periodical Articles By and About Blacks. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1973-1983.

Harley, Sharon. The Timetables of African-American History a Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in African-American History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Hughes, Langston and Milton Meltzer. Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the African-American in the Performing Arts. New York: Da Capo Press, 1990.

Index to Black Periodicals. Boston, Mass: G.K. Hall & Co, 1988- .

Jackson, Cynthia L. African American Education: A Reference Handbook. Contemporary Education Issues. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, Inc, 2001.

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (U.S.). Black Elected Officials a Statistical Summary. Washington, DC: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 1998.

Joint Center for Political Studies (U.S.). Profiles of Black Mayors in America. Washington: The Center, 1977.

Joint Center for Political Studies (U.S.) and Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (U.S.). Black Elected Officials. New York: UNIPUB, 1984.

Jones, Reginald Lanier. Handbook of Tests and Measurements for Black Populations. Hampton, VA: Cobb & Henry Publishers, 1996.

Kennard, Toni Hodge. The Handbook of Historically Black Colleges & Universities Comprehensive Profiles and Photos of Black Colleges and Universities. 2nd ed. 1995-97 ed. Wilmington, DE: Jireh & Associates, 1995.

Kern-Foxworth, Marilyn. Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994.

Krapp, Kristine (ed.) Notable Black American Scientists. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999.

Leeman, Richard W. African-American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Library of Congress, Debra Newman Ham, and Beverly W Brannan. The African-American Mosaic a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture : Library of Congress Resource Guide. Washington: Library of Congress. For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O, 1993.

Loewenberg, Bert James and Ruth Bogin. Black Women in Nineteenth-century American Life: Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.

Lowery, Charles D. and John F. Marszalek. Encyclopedia of African-American Civil
Rights from Emancipation to the Present. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Malinowski, Sharon (ed.) Black Writers a Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994.

Mapp, Edward. Directory of Blacks in the Performing Arts. Metuchen, N.J.:
Scarecrow Press, 1990.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project. A Guide to Research on Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle. Occasional Publications in Bibliography Series, no. 1. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Libraries, 1989.

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. Dictionary Catalog of the Jesse E. Moorland Collection of Negro Life and History, Howard University, Washington, D.C. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1970.

Nalty, Bernard C. and Morris J. MacGregor. Blacks in the Military: Essential Documents. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 1981.

Penn, Irvine Garland. The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Springfield, Mass.:Wiley & Co., 1891.

Puckett, Newbell Niles. Black Names in America : Origins and Usage. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1975.

Rayford, W. Logan and Michael R. Winston (eds.). Dictionary of American Negro Biography. New York: Norton, 1982.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Center for Negro Literature & History. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1962.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Southern, Eileen. Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Southern, Eileen and Josephine Wright. African-American Traditions in Song,Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature,Collections, and Artworks. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Spradling, Mary Mace. In Black and White: A Guide to Magazine Articles, Newspaper Articles, and Books Concerning More Than 15, 000 Black Individuals and Groups. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1980.

Stuhr-Rommereim, Rebecca. Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1997.

Szwed, John F. and Roger D. Abrahams. Afro-American Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography of Materials From North, Central, and South America, and the West Indies. Publications of the American Folklore Society, v. 31-32. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978.

A Testament of Hope the Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1st ed. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986.

Thomison, Dennis. The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions. Metuchen,NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991.

University Microfilms International. Black Newspapers Index. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms International, 1987- .

Valade, Roger M. Essential Black Literature Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1996.

Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American History and Literature. The Dictionary Catalog of the Vivian G. Harsh Collections of Afro-American History and Literature, The Chicago Public Library. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1978.

We are you sisters: Black women in the 19th Century. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.

Who's Who Among African Americans. New York: Gale Research, 1996.

Who's Who in Colored America. New York: Who's Who in Colored America Corp,1927- .

Williams, Ethel L., Clifton F. Brown, and Howard University. The Howard University Bibliography of African and Afro-American Religious Studies with Locations in American Libraries. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 1977.

Woodson, Carter Godwin and Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc. Negro History Bulletin. Washington: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1937- .

Work, Monroe Nathan. A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America. New York: Argosy-Antiquarian, 1965.