Websites

Smithsonian Black History Teaching Resources

New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

American Labor Studies Center Black Labor History Resources

 

 Books

David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903).

Genevieve Fabre and Robert O'Meally, eds, History and Memory in African-American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

Amy Kirschke, Art in Crisis: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007).

Amy Kirschke, Aaron Douglas: Art, Race and the Harlem (Renaissance University Press of Mississippi, 1995).

David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919 - 1963 (New York: Henry Holt, 2000).

Anne Parsons,"New York’s 1913 Emancipation Exposition -- The Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation" (Unpublished paper, NYU Public History Program, April, 2005).

Patricia Sullivan, Lift Every Voice (New York: The New Press, 2009).