RESOURCES
ANTHOLOGIES
- King, Woodie Jr. The National Black Drama Anthology: Eleven Plays from
America's Leading African-American Theaters. New York: Applause, 1995.
- Naylor, Gloria, ed. Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by
Black Writers, 1967 to the Present. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company,
1995.
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
- Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom: The Life and Times
of Frederick Douglass. New York: Arno Press, 1968.
- Powell, Colin. My American Journey. New York: Random House, 1995.
- Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery. New York: Airmont Publishing
Company, 1967.
BIOGRAPHIES
- Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader,
1856-1901. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.
- McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. New York: Norton Publishers,
1991.
- Powell, Richard J. Homecoming: The Life and Art of William H. Johnson.
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., for the National Museum of American Art, 1991.
VIDEOS
- African American Artists: Affirmation Today. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1994.
- The Life and Art of William H. Johnson. Wilton, Conn.: Reading and O'Reilly, 1991.
YOUNG READERS
- Everett, Gwen. L'il Sis and Uncle Willie: A Story Based on the Life
and Paintings of William H. Johnson. New York: Rizzoli International
Publications, Inc., for the National Museum of American Art, 1991.
- Kelly, Robin and Earl Lewis, eds. The Young Oxford History of African
Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
- Panzer, Nora, ed. Celebrate America in Poetry and Art. New York:
Hyperion Books for Children in Association with the National Museum of American Art, 1991.
- Sullivan, Charles. Children of Promise: African-American Literature
and Art for Young People. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
ADULT READERS
- Daniel, Sadie Iola. Women Builders. Washington, D.C.: Associated
Publishers, 1970.
- Elliott, Lawrence. George Washington Carver: The Man Who Overcame. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966.
- Driskell, David, David Lewis, and Deborah Ryan, eds. Harlem Renaissance Art of Black America. New York: The Studio Museum of Harlem and Harry N. Abrams, 1987.
- Haskins, James. Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People.
New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1990.
- Haskins, James. Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions.
New York: Walker, 1991.
- Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. Black Women in U. S. History from Colonial Times
Through the Nineteenth Century. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Publishers,
1990.
- Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. Black Women in U.S. History from the Twentieth
Century. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Publishers, 1990.
- Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1971.
- Hughes, Langston. Famous Negro Heroes of America. New York: Dodd,
Mead, 1958.
- Kremer, Gary K., ed. George Washington Carver in His Own Words. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987.
- Major, Devorah. An Open Weave. Seattle: Seale Press, 1995.
- Perry, Regina A. Free Within Ourselves. African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, in association with Pomegranate Artbooks, 1992.
- Reynolds, Gary A. Against the Odds: African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation. Newark, N.J.: Newark Museum, 1989.
- Taylor, Kimberly Hayes. Black Abolitionists and Freedom Fighters. Minneapolis: Oliver Press, 1996.
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