Contemporary Quilting: A Look at Artist Faith Ringgold http://eagle.cc.ukans.edu/~benelson/quiltwebpage.html Sites gives information on her life and works.
Emilio, John D.
The Civil rights Struggle: Leaders in Profile
. Facts of File Inc. New York, N.Y., 1979. This book presents the biographies of eighty-three men and women as either leaders or heads of opposition.
Fogel, William Robert and Engerman Stanley.
Time on the Cross The Economics of American Negro Slavery
. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York, New York, 1989.
Time on the Cross is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 includes economics of American Negro Slavery's full complete text with charts, maps, and tables. Supplementary volume. Time on the Cross contains all source references for the work.
King, Casey and Osborne, Barrett Linda.
Oh, Freedom!
Alfred A. Knop, Inc. 1997. Distributed by Random House, Inc. New York, N.Y., 1997.
This book gives an account of the civil rights movement in the United States, told in a series of thirty-one interviews conducted by children with family, friends, and civil rights activists.
Biography Jacob Lawrence by Julia Haynes. http://www.onlinenetworking.org/Lawrence/biography_and commentary_on_jaco.htm Site gives information his life and art work.
Voices in African American History The American Revolution
. Modern Curriculum Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 1994. This book explains in details the American Revolution and African American History intertwined as one story.
Stewart, Jeffrey C.
1001 Things Everyone should Know About African American History
. A Main Street Book a division of Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group, Inc. New York, N.Y., 1996. The book was designed to inform as well as to entertain. It provides facts about African American History
Tobin, Jacqueline L. and Ph.D. Dobard, Raymond G.
Hidden In Plain View A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
. Anchor Books, a division of Random House Inc. New York, N.Y., 2000. This book traces the origin of the Charleston Code from Africa to the Carolinas. It shows people from three different backgrounds piece together one amazing American story.
Underground Railroad
. Produced by the Division of Publications National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Division of Publications p.c.m. (Handbook; 156) Supt. Of Docs. No: I 29.9/5:156 ISBN 0-912627-64-6 Gives information about the Underground Railroad along with vibrant pictures depicting the times of slavery.
Wilson, Benjamin.
The Rural Black Heritage Between Chicago and Detroit: 1850-1929
. A photograph Album and Random Thoughts. New Issues Press Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1985. The book provides information about how African Americans lived in Chicago and Detroit during 1850-1929.
