Henry A. Rhodes
Aptheker, Herbert,
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States
, Vol. 2,
From Reconstruction Era to 1910
. New York: The Citadel Press, 1961. Comprehensive history of Negroes in the U.S.
Blanstein, Albert P., Zangrando, Robert L., editors,
Civil Rights and the American Negro: A Documentary History
. New York: Washington Square Press, 1968. Good source on Civil Rights Movement.
Fenderson, Lewis H.,
Thurgood Marshall: Fighter for Justice
. New: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1969. Traces Marshall’s life from boyhood to his appointment to the Supreme Court.
Fox, Stephen R.,
The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter
. New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1970.
Graham, Shirley, Booker T.
Washington: Educator of Hand. Head and Heart
. New York: Julian Messner, 1955. A biography of the life and times of Booker T. Washington.
Hamilton, Virginia.
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography
. New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell Company, 1972. Besides providing a biography of W. E. B. DuBois, it also presents a good account of formation and aim of NAACP.
Hughes, Langston.
The Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP
. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1962. Excellent account of the history of NAACP.
Logan, Rayford W.,
The Betrayal of the Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson.
New York Collier Books, 1965. Excellent source on Compromise of 1877 and presidential elections of 1876.
Twain, Mark,
Pudd’nhead Wilson
. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922.
Woodson, Carter.
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861
. Washington: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1919.