African American

Books

Chan, A. (No date). African Americans: Voices in history and culture. Carthage, Illinois: Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.

Duea, J., Nielsen, L., & McClain, J. (No date). Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: An instruction unit for elementary grades. Cedar Falls, Iowa: Price Laboratory School.

Haley, A. (1976). Roots: The saga of an American family. New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc.

Bishop, S. (Ed.). (1994). Kaleidoscope: A multicultural booklist for grades K-8. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Blockson, C. (1977). Black genealogy. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall.

Carney, J. (1983). Ethnic genealogy: A research guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Clifton, L. (1970). The Black BC's. New York: Dutton.

Cooper, J. (1991). Family: A novel. New York: Doubleday.

Finney, J. (1969). The long road to now: A bibliography of material relating to the American Black man. Farmingdale, N.Y.: C. W. Clark Co.

Giovanni, N. (1971). Spin a soft Black song: Poems for children. New York: Hill and Wang.

Gordy, B. (1979). Movin' up: Pop Gordy tells his story. New York: Harper & Row.

Greenfield, E. (1979). Childtimes: A three-generation memoir. New York: Crowell.

Greenfield, E. (1978). Honey, I love, and other love poems. New York: Crowell.

Greenfield, E. (1988). Nathaniel talking. New York: Black butterfly Children's Books.

Haber, L. (1970). Black pioneers of science and invention. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.

Hancock, S. (1983). Famous firsts of black Americans. Gretna, La.: Pelican Pub. Co.

Haskins, J. (1991). Outward dreams: Black inventors and their inventions. New York: Walker.

Haskins, J. (1992). The day Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot: A photo history of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Scholastic.

Jackson, J. (1945). Call me Charlie. New York: Harper.

James, P. (1989). The real McCoy: African-American invention ad innovation. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Jenkins, E. & others. (1975). American Black scientists and inventors. Washington: National Science Teachers Association.

Johnson, A. (1990). When I am old with you. New York: Orchard Books.

Johnson, D. (1990). Telling tales: the pedagogy and promise of African American literature for youth. New York: Greenwood Press.

Kailin, C. (1974). Black chronicle: An American history text book supplement. Madison: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

King, S. (1994). Maya Angelou: Greeting the morning. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press.

Kohl, H. (1967). 36 children. New York: New American Library.

Kranz, R. (1992). The biographical dictionary of Black Americans. New York: Facts on File.

Lawrence, J. (1993). Harriet and the promised land. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Lawrence, J. (1993). The great migration: An American story. New York: Museum of Modern Art.

Lawson, S. (1988). Generations past: A selected list of sources for Afro-American genealogical research. Washington: Library of Congress.

Levine, E. (1993). Freedom's children: Young civil rights activists tell their own stories. New York: Putnam.

Livingston, M. (1994). Keep on singing: A ballad of Marian Anderson. New York: Holiday House.

McKissack, P. (1991). Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A voice against violence. Hillsdale, N.J.: Aldershot, Hants.

McKissack, P. (1987). The Civil rights Movement in America from 1865 to the present. Chicago: Childrens Press.

Michels, B. & White, B. (Eds.). (1983). Apples on a stick: The folklore of Black children. New York: Coward-McCann.

Mitchell, B. (1986). Shoes for everyone: A story about Jan Matzeliger. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books.

Myers, W. (1991). Now is your time!: The African-American struggle for freedom. New York: HarperCollins.

New York Public Library, Black Experience in Children's Books Committee. (1989). The Black experience in children's books. New York: New York Public Library.

Ohenewaa, A. (1970). I am somebody! Stories and poems by Black children. Boston: Ginn.

Redding, J. (1950). They came in chains: Americans from Africa. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Redford, D. (1988). Somerset homecoming: Recovering a lost heritage. New York: Doubleday.

Reynolds, B. (1988). And still we rise: Interviews with 50 Black role models. Washington, D.C.: USA Today Books.

Rollock, B. (1984). The Black experience in children's books. New York: New York Public Library.

Rose, J. (1978). Black genesis. Detroit: Gale Research Co.

Smead, H. (1989). The Afro-Americans. New York: Chelsea House.

Smith, K. (Ed.). (1994). African-American voices in young adult literature: Tradition, transition, transformation. Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow Press.

Streets, D. (1986). Slave genealogy: A research guide with case studies. Bowie MD: Heritage Books.

Westridge Young Writers Workshop. (1993). Kids explore America's African-American heritage. Santa Fe, N. M.: J. Muir Publications.

Williams, H. (1991). Books by African-American authors and illustrators for children and young adults. Chicago: American Library Association.

Williams, J. (1978). At last recognition in America: A reference handbook of unknown Black inventors and their contributions to America. Chicago: B.C.A. Pub. Corp.

Winter, J. (1988). Follow the drinking gourd. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

African American Religious Experiences

Johnston, M. (Ed.) (1981). Songs of Zion: Supplemental worship resources 12. Nashville: Abingdon Press.

Jordan, C. (1968). The cottonpatch version of Paul's epistles. New York: Association Press.

McCary, P. (1994). Rappin' with Jesus: The good news according to the four brothers. New York: African American Family Press.

Journal Articles

Adenika-Morrow, T. (1996). A lifeline to science careers for African-American females. Educational Leadership. 53 (8), 80-83.

Barss, K. (1998). Re-exploring early America. Social Education. 62 (6), 326-327.

Cholden, H., & Hunt, B. (1996). Freedom and oppression - opposing ideas lead to integrated knowledge: A unit of study for intermediate grades. Social Education. 60 (3), 139-140.

Coleman, W. (1998). Black women and their antebellum quest for political and social equality. Social Education. 62 (6), 345-349.

Dyro, P. (1998). Using fiction to support history teaching. Social Education. 62 (6), C1-C4.

Fehn, B., Flowers, L., & Jones, E. (1997). "Why is there so much hate in people's hearts?" African American students interpret the integration struggle in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957. The Iowa Council for the Social Studies Journal. 10 (1), 31-43.

Foner, E. (1998). Slavery and the origins of the Civil War. Social Education. 62 (6), 333-339.

Ignatiev, N. (1998). Race in Pre-Civil War America. Social Education. 62 (6), 340-344.

Labbo, L. (1997). Children's literature "off the shelf": Resources for celebrating the lives of African American Women. Social Studies and the Young Learner. 9 (3), 21-23.

Levy, T. (1995). The Amistad incident: A classroom reenactment. Social Education. 59 (5), 303- 308.

McHugh, D. (1995). William Buckland: Indentured servant at Gunston Hall. Magazine of History. 8 (4), 32-35.

Mizell, L. (1998). Exploring primary sources: The ideal of liberty and the reality of slavery. Social Education. 62 (6), 350-351.

Pyne, J., & Sesso, G. (1995). The Declaration of Independence: To what extent did it have meaning for African Americans. Magazine of History. 9 (3), .

Risinger, C. (1998). African Americans, U. S. history, and the internet. Social Education. 62 (6), 354-355.

Schwarz, P. (1995). Jefferson and the wolf: The sage of Monticello confronts the law of slavery. Magazine of History. 8 (4), 18-22.

Smith, L. (1998). Facing slavery and ourselves: Are we ready? Social Education. 62 (6), 329-332.

Stevens, R., & Fogel, J. (1998). The depression in the south: Seymour Fogel's images of African Americans. Social Education. 62 (2), 80-83.

Stewart, L., (1997). Reading beyond King, Carver, and Tubman. Social Studies and the Young Learner. 9 (4), 26-27.

Students. (1998). Students speak out. Social Education. 62 (6), 352-353.

Sweet, J. (1987). A primary school unit on Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Education. 51 (4), 284.

Yeager, E., Doppen, F., & Middleton, D. (1997). Now is your time! Social Education. 61 (4), 207- 209.

Yeager, E., Doppen, F., & Otani, E. (1997). State history and African American history: An interdisciplinary civil rights approach. Social Studies and the Young Learner. 9 (3), 14-17.

Resources compiled by Dr. Loretta Kuse
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