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REFERENCE NUMBER: 001.
AUTHOR: Adams, C. C. and Marshall A. Talley
TITLE: Negro Baptists and Foreign Missions
PUBLISHED: Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., Philadelphia, [1944]

REFERENCE NUMBER: 002.
AUTHOR: Adams, H[enry] G[ardiner]
TITLE: God's Image in Ebony; Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, Etc.
PUBLISHED: Partridge and Oakey, London, 1854

REFERENCE NUMBER: 003.
AUTHOR: Adams, Revels A[lcorn]
TITLE: Cyclopedia of African Methodism in Mississippi
PUBLISHED: [Natchez, MS?], 1902

REFERENCE NUMBER: 004.
AUTHOR: Ahuma, S[amuel] B[rew]
TITLE: Memoirs of West African celebrities, Europe &c. (1700-1850)
PUBLISHED: D. Marples, Liverpool, 1905

REFERENCE NUMBER: 005.
AUTHOR: Akin, Emma E.
TITLE: Ideals and Adventures (The Negro American Series) [Juvenile]
PUBLISHED: Harlow Publishing Corporation, Oklahoma City, 1938c., 1939

REFERENCE NUMBER: 006.
AUTHOR: Albany Institute of History and Art
TITLE: The Negro Artist Comes of Age; A National Survey of Contemporary American Artists
PUBLISHED: Albany Institute of History and Art?, [Albany?], 1945

REFERENCE NUMBER: 007.
AUTHOR: Alexander, Charles
TITLE: One Hundred Distinguished Leaders
PUBLISHED: Franklin Printing and Publishing Co., Atlanta, [1899]

REFERENCE NUMBER: 008.
AUTHOR: Alexander, Sadie T[anner] M[ossell]
TITLE: Who's Who among Negro Lawyers
PUBLISHED: National Bar Association, 1945
Session of The General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion

REFERENCE NUMBER: 009.
AUTHOR: Anderson, J[ames] Harvey
TITLE: Biographical Souvenir Volume of the Twenty-Third Quadrennial Session of The General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
PUBLISHED: [1908]

REFERENCE NUMBER: 010.
AUTHOR: Armistead, Wilson
TITLE: A Tribute for the Negro
PUBLISHED: William Irwin, Manchester, England, 1848

REFERENCE NUMBER: 011.
AUTHOR: Arnett, Benjamin W.
TITLE: The Budget: Containing the Annual Reports of the General Officers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
PUBLISHED: Christian Publishing House, Dayton, OH, [1883]
Annual Reports of the General Officers of the African Methodist Episcopal

REFERENCE NUMBER: 012.
AUTHOR: Arnett, B[enjamin] W.
TITLE: The Budget: Containing Biographical Sketches, Quadrennial and Annual Reports of the General Officers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
PUBLISHED: Christian Publishing House Print., Dayton, OH, 1884

REFERENCE NUMBER: 013.
AUTHOR: Arnett, B[enjamin] W.
TITLE: Proceedings of the Semi-Centenary Celebration of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Cincinnati
PUBLISHED: H. Watkin, printer, Cincinnati, OH, 1874

REFERENCE NUMBER: 014.
AUTHOR: Bacote, Samuel William
TITLE: Who's Who Among the Colored Baptists of the United States
PUBLISHED: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., Kansas City, MO, 1913, (Vol. 1, no more published)

REFERENCE NUMBER: 015.
AUTHOR: Barton, Rebecca Chalmers
TITLE: Witnesses for Freedom; Negro Americans in Autobiography
PUBLISHED: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1948

REFERENCE NUMBER: 016.
AUTHOR: Battle, Charles A.
TITLE: Negroes on the Island of Rhode Island
PUBLISHED: [Newport, RI, 1932]

REFERENCE NUMBER: 017.
AUTHOR: Beasley, Delilah L.
TITLE: The Negro Trail Blazers of California
PUBLISHED: Los Angeles, 1919

REFERENCE NUMBER: 018.
AUTHOR: Berry, L[ewellyn] L[ongfellow]
TITLE: A Century of Missions of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1840-1940
PUBLISHED: Gutenberg Printing Co., Inc., New York, 1942

REFERENCE NUMBER: 019.
AUTHOR: Blackwell, G[eorge] L.
TITLE: Who Is Who in the Fifth Episcopal District in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church...May, 1920
PUBLISHED: Wm. H. Watson, Printer, Philadelphia, 1920

REFERENCE NUMBER: 020.
AUTHOR: Bontemps, Arna
TITLE: We Have Tomorrow
PUBLISHED: Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, MA, 1945

REFERENCE NUMBER: 021.
AUTHOR: Bontemps, Arna and Jack Conroy
TITLE: They Seek a City
PUBLISHED: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1945
and Rededication of the African Methodist Episcopal Mount Pisgah Church,

REFERENCE NUMBER: 022.
AUTHOR: Booker, Emmer H[enri]
TITLE: One Hundred Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration and Rededication of the African Methodist Episcopal Mount Pisgah Church, Inc.
PUBLISHED: [Philadelphia, 1948]

REFERENCE NUMBER: 023.
AUTHOR: Boone, K. Irving
TITLE: Directory, Negro Business and Professional Men and Women; A Survey of Negro Progress in Varied Sections of North Carolina
PUBLISHED: R. Irving Boone, Wilmington, NC, 1946

REFERENCE NUMBER: 024.
AUTHOR: Boone, Theodore S[ylvester]
TITLE: Negro Baptist Chief Executives in National Places
PUBLISHED: A.P. Publishing Company, Detroit, 1948

REFERENCE NUMBER: 025.
AUTHOR: Boothe, Charles Octavius
TITLE: The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama; Their Leaders and Their Work
PUBLISHED: Alabama Publishing Co., Birmingham, AL, 1895

REFERENCE NUMBER: 026.
AUTHOR: Boykin, Ulysses W.
TITLE: A Hand Book on the Detroit Negro; A Preliminary Edition
PUBLISHED: The Minority Study Associates, Detroit, 1943

REFERENCE NUMBER: 027.
AUTHOR: Bragg, George F[reeman, Jr.]
TITLE: The Colored Harvest in the Old Virginia Diocese
PUBLISHED: [Baltimore], 1901

REFERENCE NUMBER: 028.
AUTHOR: Bragg, George F[reeman, Jr.]
TITLE: Heroes of the Eastern Shore
PUBLISHED: Baltimore, 1939

REFERENCE NUMBER: 029.
AUTHOR: Bragg, George F[reeman, Jr.]
TITLE: History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church
PUBLISHED: Church Advocate Press, Baltimore, 1922

REFERENCE NUMBER: 030.
AUTHOR: Bragg, George F[reeman, Jr.]
TITLE: Men of Maryland
PUBLISHED: Church Advocate Press, Baltimore, 1914

REFERENCE NUMBER: 031.
AUTHOR: Bragg, George F[reeman, Jr.]
TITLE: Men of Maryland
PUBLISHED: Church Advocate Press, Baltimore, 1925

REFERENCE NUMBER: 032.
AUTHOR: Bragg, George Freeman, [Jr.]
TITLE: A Race with a History and a Country
PUBLISHED: C.M. Dorsey & Sons, Baltimore, n.d.

REFERENCE NUMBER: 033.
AUTHOR: Brawley, Benjamin [Griffith]
TITLE: Early Negro American Writers
PUBLISHED: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1935

REFERENCE NUMBER: 034.
AUTHOR: Brawley, Benjamin [Griffith]
TITLE: Negro Builders and Heroes
PUBLISHED: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1937

REFERENCE NUMBER: 035.
AUTHOR: Brawley, Benjamin [Griffith]
TITLE: The Negro Genius
PUBLISHED: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1937

REFERENCE NUMBER: 036.
AUTHOR: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith
TITLE: The Negro in Literature and Art
PUBLISHED: [Atlanta?], 1910

REFERENCE NUMBER: 037.
AUTHOR: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith
TITLE: The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States
PUBLISHED: Duffield & Co., New York, 1918

REFERENCE NUMBER: 038.
AUTHOR: Brawley, Benjamin [Griffith]
TITLE: The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States
PUBLISHED: Duffield & Co., New York, 1921, revised edition

REFERENCE NUMBER: 039.
AUTHOR: Brawley, Benjamin [Griffith]
TITLE: Women of Achievement; Written for The Fireside Schools
PUBLISHED: Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, Chicago, 1919

REFERENCE NUMBER: 040.
AUTHOR: Brewer, J[ohn] Mason
TITLE: An Historical Outline of the Negro in Travis County
PUBLISHED: Samuel Houston College, Austin, TX, 1940

REFERENCE NUMBER: 041.
AUTHOR: Brewer, J[ohn] Mason
TITLE: Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants
PUBLISHED: Mathis Publishing Co., Dallas, 1935

REFERENCE NUMBER: 042.
AUTHOR: Brown, Hallie Q[uinn]
TITLE: Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction
PUBLISHED: The Aldine Publishing Company, Xenia, OH, 1926

REFERENCE NUMBER: 043.
AUTHOR: Brown, Hallie Q[uinn]
TITLE: Pen Pictures of Pioneers of Wilberforce
PUBLISHED: The Aldine Publishing Company, Xenia, OH, 1937

REFERENCE NUMBER: 044.
AUTHOR: Brown, William Wells
TITLE: The Black Man; His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements
PUBLISHED: Thomas Hamilton, R. F. Wallcut, New York, Boston, 1863, second edition, revised and enlarged

REFERENCE NUMBER: 045.
AUTHOR: Brown, W[illiam] Wells
TITLE: The Rising Son; or, The Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race
PUBLISHED: A.G. Brown S Co., Boston, 1873c., 1876

REFERENCE NUMBER: 046.
AUTHOR: Bruce, John Edward
TITLE: Short Biographical Sketches of Eminent Negro Men & Women in Europe & the United States
PUBLISHED: Gazette Press, Yonkers, NY, 1910

REFERENCE NUMBER: 047.
AUTHOR: Buck, D. D.
TITLE: The Progression of the Race in the United States and Canada
PUBLISHED: Atwell Printing & Binding Co., Chicago, 1907

REFERENCE NUMBER: 048.
AUTHOR: Bullock, Ralph W.
TITLE: In Spite of Handicaps
PUBLISHED: Association Press, New York, 1927

REFERENCE NUMBER: 049.
AUTHOR: Burrell, W[illiam] P[atrick] and D.E. Johnson, Sr.
TITLE: Twenty-five Years History of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, 1881-1905
PUBLISHED: Richmond, VA, 1909

REFERENCE NUMBER: 050.
AUTHOR: Bush, A. E. and P. L. Dorman
TITLE: History of the Mosaic Templars of America - Its Founders and Officials
PUBLISHED: Central Printing Company, Little Rock, AR, 1924

REFERENCE NUMBER: 051.
AUTHOR: Butt, lsrael L[aFayette]
TITLE: History of African Methodism in Virginia or Four Decades in the Old Dominion
PUBLISHED: Hampton Institute Press, Hampton, VA, 1908

REFERENCE NUMBER: 052.
AUTHOR: Caldwell, A[rthur] B[unyan]
TITLE: History of the American Negro and His Institutions, Georgia Edition, Vol. I and II
PUBLISHED: A.B. Caldwell Publishing Co., Atlanta, 1917; 1920

REFERENCE NUMBER: 053.
AUTHOR: Caldwell, A[rthur] B[unyan]
TITLE: History of the American Negro, South Carolina Edition, Vol. III
PUBLISHED: A.B. Caldwell Publishing Co., Atlanta, 1919

REFERENCE NUMBER: 054.
AUTHOR: Caldwell, A[rthur] B[unyan]
TITLE: History of the American Negro, North Carolina Edition, Vol. lV
PUBLISHED: A.B. Caldwell Publishing Co., Atlanta, 1921

REFERENCE NUMBER: 055.
AUTHOR: Caldwell, A[rthur] B[unyan]
TITLE: History of the American Negro, Virginia Edition, Vol. V
PUBLISHED: A.B. Caldwell Publishing Co., Atlanta, 1921

REFERENCE NUMBER: 056.
AUTHOR: Caldwell, A[rthur] B[unyan]
TITLE: History of the American Negro, Washington, D.C., Edition, Vol. Vl
PUBLISHED: A.B. Caldwell Publishing Co., Atlanta, 1922

REFERENCE NUMBER: 057.
AUTHOR: Caldwell, A[rthur] B[unyan]
TITLE: History of the American Negro, West Virginia Edition, Vol. VII
PUBLISHED: A.B. Caldwell Pub[lishing] Co., Atlanta, 1923

REFERENCE NUMBER: 058.
AUTHOR: Carter, E[dward] R[andolph]
TITLE: Biographical Sketches of Our Pulpit
PUBLISHED: [Atlanta.?], 1888

REFERENCE NUMBER: 059.
AUTHOR: Carter, E[dward] R[andolph]
TITLE: The Black Side; A Partial History of the Business, Religious and Educational Side of the Negro in Atlanta, GA.
PUBLISHED: Atlanta, 1894
Comprehensive Review of the Negro's Participation in the Wars of the

REFERENCE NUMBER: 060.
AUTHOR: Cashin, Herschel V., et al.
TITLE: Under fire with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry; Being a Brief, Comprehensive Review of the Negro's Participation in the Wars of the United States
PUBLISHED: American Publishing House, Chicago, 1902

REFERENCE NUMBER: 061.
AUTHOR: Cayton, Horace R.
TITLE: Cayton's Year Book; Seattle's Colored Citizens
PUBLISHED: H.R. Cayton & Son, Seattle, 1923

REFERENCE NUMBER: 062.
AUTHOR: Child, L[ydia] Maria
TITLE: The Freedmen's Book
PUBLISHED: Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866, [1865c.]

REFERENCE NUMBER: 063.
AUTHOR: Clamorgan, Cyprian
TITLE: The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis
PUBLISHED: St. Louis, 1858

REFERENCE NUMBER: 064.
AUTHOR: [Clarke, J. B.]
TITLE: A Memento of the Emancipation Proclamation; Exposition of the State of New York
PUBLISHED: [R.N. Wood, New York, 1913?]

REFERENCE NUMBER: 065.
AUTHOR: Coles, Howard W.
TITLE: The Cradle of Freedom; A History of the Negro in Rochester, Western New York and Canada
PUBLISHED: Oxford Press, Publishers, Rochester, NY, 1942c., 1943, second printing

REFERENCE NUMBER: 066.
AUTHOR: Columbia Civic Library Association
TITLE: A Directory of Negro Graduates of Accredited Library Schools, 1900-1936
PUBLISHED: Columbia Civic Library Association, Washington, DC, 1937

REFERENCE NUMBER: 067.
AUTHOR: Corey, Charles H[enry]
TITLE: A History of the Richmond Theological Seminary, with Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Work among the Colored
PUBLISHED: J.W. Randolph Company, Richmond, VA, 1895

REFERENCE NUMBER: 068.
AUTHOR: Cox, L[ewis] Y.
TITLE: Pioneer Footsteps
PUBLISHED: Star & Wave Press, Cape May, NJ, 1917

REFERENCE NUMBER: 069.
AUTHOR: Crawford, I[saiah] W[adsworth] and P. H[enry] Thompson
TITLE: Multum in Parvo. In the Second Edition An Authenticated History of Progressive Negroes in Pleasing and Graphic Biographical Style
PUBLISHED: Crawford & Thompson, Jackson, MS, 1912

REFERENCE NUMBER: 070.
AUTHOR: Cromwell, John W[esley]
TITLE: The Negro in American History; Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African Descent
PUBLISHED: The American Negro Academy, Washington, DC, 1914

REFERENCE NUMBER: 071.
AUTHOR: Culp, D[aniel] W[allace]
TITLE: Twentieth Century Negro Literature or a Cyclopedia of Thought
PUBLISHED: J.L. Nichols & Co., Naperville, IL, 1902

REFERENCE NUMBER: 072.
AUTHOR: Cuney-Hare, Maud
TITLE: Negro Musicians and Their Music
PUBLISHED: The Associated Publishers, Inc., Washington, DC, 1936

REFERENCE NUMBER: 073.
AUTHOR: Dabney, Wendell P.
TITLE: Cincinnati's Colored Citizens; Historical, Sociological and Biographical
PUBLISHED: The Dabney Publishing Company, Cincinnati, OH, 1926

REFERENCE NUMBER: 074.
AUTHOR: Daniel, Sadie Iola
TITLE: Women Builders
PUBLISHED: The Associated Publishers, Inc., Washington, DC, 1931

REFERENCE NUMBER: 075.
AUTHOR: [Davis, Elizabeth Lindsay]
TITLE: [Lifting as They Climb]
PUBLISHED: [National Association of Colored Women, Washington, DC, 1933]

REFERENCE NUMBER: 076.
AUTHOR: Davis, Elizabeth Lindsay
TITLE: The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 1900-1922
PUBLISHED: [Chicago, 1922]

REFERENCE NUMBER: 077.
AUTHOR: Davis, W[alker] Milan
TITLE: Pushing Forward, A History of Alcorn A. & M. College and Portraits of some of Its Successful Graduates
PUBLISHED: The Okolona Industrial School, Okolona, MS, 1938

REFERENCE NUMBER: 078.
AUTHOR: Dawson, Charles C.
TITLE: ABC's of Great Negroes
PUBLISHED: Dawson Publishers, Chicago, 1933

REFERENCE NUMBER: 079.
AUTHOR: Delany, Martin Robison
TITLE: The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
PUBLISHED: King & Baird, Philadelphia, 1852

REFERENCE NUMBER: 080.
AUTHOR: Derricotte, Elise Palmer, et al.
TITLE: Word Pictures of the Great [Juvenile]
PUBLISHED: The Associated Publishers, Inc., Washington, DC, 1941

REFERENCE NUMBER: 081.
AUTHOR: Desdunes, R[odolphe]-L[ucien]
TITLE: Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire
PUBLISHED: Arbour & Dupont, Montreal, Canada, 1911

REFERENCE NUMBER: 082.
AUTHOR: Dickson, William
TITLE: Letters on Slavery
PUBLISHED: J. Phillips, London, 1789

REFERENCE NUMBER: 083.
AUTHOR: [Diggs, James Robert Lincoln]
TITLE: Our . . . portrait gallery
PUBLISHED: The American Baptist Home Mission Society, New York, n.d

REFERENCE NUMBER: 084.
AUTHOR: Downs, Karl E.
TITLE: Meet the Negro
PUBLISHED: Login Press, Pasadena, CA, 1943, second edition

REFERENCE NUMBER: 085.
AUTHOR: Drewes, Christopher F.
TITLE: Half a Century of Lutheranism among Our Colored People . . . 1877-1927
PUBLISHED: Concordia Publishing House Print, St. Louis, 1927
Illustrations and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and

REFERENCE NUMBER: 086.
AUTHOR: Duncan, Sara J.
TITLE: Progressive Missions in the South and Addresses; with Illustrations and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and Bishops' Wives
PUBLISHED: The Franklin Printing and Publishing Co., Atlanta, 1906

REFERENCE NUMBER: 087.
AUTHOR: Earnest, Joseph B., Jr.
TITLE: The Religious Development of the Negro in Virginia
PUBLISHED: The Michie Co., Printers, Charlottesville, VA, 1914

REFERENCE NUMBER: 088.
AUTHOR: Ehrmann, Bess V[irginia]
TITLE: "Thenceforward and Forever Free"
PUBLISHED: Horizon House, New York, 1945

REFERENCE NUMBER: 089.
AUTHOR: Embree, Edwin R[ogers]
TITLE: 13 Against the Odds
PUBLISHED: The Viking Press, New York, 1944

REFERENCE NUMBER: 090.
AUTHOR: Emerson, William Canfield
TITLE: Stories and Spirituals of the Negro Slave
PUBLISHED: R. G. Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston, 1930

REFERENCE NUMBER: 091.
AUTHOR: Eubanks, Margaret Kime
TITLE: March On; Stories of Negro Men and Women of America [Juvenile]
PUBLISHED: Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, Atlanta, 1946

REFERENCE NUMBER: 092.
AUTHOR: Everett, Faye Philip
TITLE: The Colored Situation
PUBLISHED: Meador Publishing Company, Boston, 1938 rev., 1936c.

REFERENCE NUMBER: 093.
AUTHOR: Fawet, Arthur H[uffl
TITLE: For Freedom, A Biographical Story of the American Negro [Juvenile]
PUBLISHED: J. W. Johnson, Philadelphia, 1927

REFERENCE NUMBER: 094.
AUTHOR: Fauset, Arthur Huff
TITLE: For Freedom, A Biographical Sketch of the American Negro [Juvenile]
PUBLISHED: Franklin Publishing & Supply Company, Philadelphia, 1927c., 1934 revised

REFERENCE NUMBER: 095.
AUTHOR: Felps, Jettie [Irving]
TITLE: The Lost Tongues
PUBLISHED: [Christian Triumph Press, Corpus Christi, TX 1950?]

REFERENCE NUMBER: 096.
AUTHOR: Ferris, Willia n H.
TITLE: The African Abroad; or His Evolution in Western Civilization
PUBLISHED: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, New Haven, CT, 1913, in 2 vols.

REFERENCE NUMBER: 097.
AUTHOR: Fleming, Beatrice J[ackson] and Marion J. Pryde
TITLE: Distinguished Negroes Abroad
PUBLISHED: The Associated Publishers, Washington, DC, 1946

REFERENCE NUMBER: 098.
AUTHOR: Flickinger, Robert Elliot
TITLE: The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
PUBLISHED: Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen, Pittsburgh, 1914

REFERENCE NUMBER: 099.
AUTHOR: Fonvielle, W[illiam] F[rank]
TITLE: Reminiscences of College Days
PUBLISHED: Edwards & Broughton, Printers, Goldsboro, NC, 1903c., 1904

REFERENCE NUMBER: 100.
AUTHOR: Fuller, T[homas] O[scar]
PUBLISHED: Haskins Print-Rogers Williams College, Memphis, TN, 1936

 

 

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