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African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. Arkansas churches and associations. /Microfilm 14-16/

Benberry, Cuesta. A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2000. 158p. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Photographs. /GC 976.7 B431pi/

Finley, Randy. From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas, 1865-1869. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2008. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Black Community Studies. /GC 976.7 F49f/

Freedmen's Aid Society Records, 1866-1932. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2000. Published with The Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia. Philander Smith College, Little Rock, AR. /Microfilm Rolls 83-84/

Gigantino, James J., II. Slavery and Secession in Arkansas: A Documentary History. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2015. 247p. Index. Notes. The Civil War in the West Series. /GC 976.7 SL16gi/

Higgins, Billy D. A Stranger and A Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2004. 349p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.7 H535st/

Lancaster, Guy, ed. Bullets and Fire: Lynching and Authority in Arkansas, 1840-1950. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2018. 344p. Index. Notes. /GC 976.7 B874La/

Lancaster, Guy. Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883-1924: Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality. . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. 199p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. New Studies in Southern History Series. /GC 976.7 L22r/

Lankford, George E., ed. Bearing Witness: Memories of Arkansas Slavery Narratives from the 1930s WPA Collections. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2003. 428p. Appendix. Indices. /GC 976.7 B382/

Let Them Speak, Slave Narratives: Arkansas, Volume 1 - 4, A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. Russellville, AR: Markham Press, 2010-11. 4 volumes. /GC 976.7 L56g V. 1-2 & 3-4/

McNeilly, Donald P. The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society, 1819-1861. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2000. 268p. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Notes. Tables. /GC 976.7 M232ol/

Morgans, James Patrick. The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier: Escapes from Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, and the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska and the Indian Nations, 1840-1865. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010. 221p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 978 M823mo/

National Archives and Records Administration. Records of the Field Offices for the State of Arkansas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872: Pamphlet Describing M1901. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002. 43p. Appendix. Notes. /GC 976.7 R245N/

Patterson, Ruth Polk. The Seed of Sally Good'n: A Black Family of Arkansas, 1833-1953. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985. 183p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 P759pa/

Pierce, Michael and Calvin White, Jr., eds. Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2022. 237p. Index. Notes. /GC 976.7 R11/

Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks. Series II, Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867: Part E, Arkansas (1824-1867), Missouri (1806-1860), Tennessee (1792-1868), and Texas (1830-1867). Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis, 2005. 551p. Index. /GC 975 G941a Pt. E/

Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks. Series II, Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867: Part E, Arkansas (1824-1867). Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis, 2005. /Series II, Part E, Microfilm Rolls 1-3/

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography--Arkansas Narratives and Missouri Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972. /GC 976.7 Ar486 Pt. 7 Sec. 1/

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography--Arkansas Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972. /GC 976.7 Ar486 Pts. 1-6/

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography--Arkansas...Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1977. /GC 929.11 Ar486 Sec. 1/

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography--Arkansas...Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1979. /GC 929.11 AL113 Sec. 3/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Berkeley family papers, 1536-1868. /Series E, Part 2, Rolls 1-18/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Burwell Benson papers, 1804-1914. /Series J, Part 13, Rolls 11-12/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Gustavus A. Henry papers, 1804-1895. /Series J, Part 6, Rolls 18-20/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Hannah family papers, 1760-1967. /Series M, Part 5, Rolls 21-28/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Leonidas Chalmers Glenn papers, 1752-1907. /Series J, Part 13, Roll 35/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Mary Jeffreys Bethell diary, 1853-1873. /Series J, Part 13, Roll 12/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Robert Hall Morrison papers, 1820-1888. /Series J, Part 8, Rolls 18-19/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Shanks family papers, 1801-1923. /Series J, Part 13, Rolls 4-5/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Thomas W. Butler papers, 1842-1913. /Series I, Part 5, Rolls 4-9/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Wyche & Otey papers, 1824-1900 & 1935-1936. /Series J, Part 7, Rolls 9-12/

Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1974. Records Relating to Freedmen's Labor. Register of Letters. /Microfilm Rolls 4-20, 31-44, 49-50/

Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1969. Microcopy M816. Little Rock. /Microfilm Roll 51/

Slave Schedules for 1850--Arkansas. Washington, DC: The National Archives, 1964. Microcopy 432. /Microfilm Roll 32/

Slave Schedules for 1850--Arkansas. Washington, DC: The National Archives, 1967. Microcopy 653. /Microfilm Rolls 53-54/

Taylor, Orville W. Negro Slavery in Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2000. 282p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 976.7 T21ne/

Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth. American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 282p. Index. Notes. /GC 976 W86am/

Chicot County:

Whayne, Jeannie M. Shadows over Sunnyside: An Arkansas Plantation in Transition, 1830-1945. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 1993. 172p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.701 C43sh/

Conway County:

Black Schools: New Farmers of America, Chapter #81, Sullivan High School, Morrilton, Arkansas. S.l.: s.n., 201-. 57p. Photogrpahs. /GC 976.702 M83BL/

Crittenden County:

Jones, Krista Michelle. It Was Awful, But It Was Politics: Crittenden County and the Demise of African American Political Participation. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas, 2012. 96p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 976.701 C86jo/

Hempstead County:

McDowell, Linda. Black Slaves & Early Freedmen of Hempstead County Arkansas, 1819-1850. Little Rock, AR: Jubilee, Inc., 2000. 140p. Bibliography. Indices. /GC 976.701 H37mc/

Hot Spring County:

Mance, Ajuan M. . Proud Legacy: The "Colored" Schools of Malvern, Arkansas and the Community that Made Them. Melvern, AR: The Henson Benson Foundation, 2012. 172p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.702 M29man/

Jefferson County:

Cunningham, Jimmy Jr. and Donna Cunningham. African Americans of Pine Bluff and Jefferson County. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2013. 127p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 976.701 J35cu/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. James Trooper Armstrong papers, 1832-1891. /Series J, Part 6, Roll 29/

Williams, Bettye J. The Pioneers: Early African-American Leaders in Pine Bluff, Arkansas: Freedmen, Newly Freed, and First/Second Generation, Born from 1833-1892. Bloomington, IN: Archway Publishing, 2020. 319p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs.

Johnson County:

Battershell, Gary L. Upcountry Slaveholding: Pope and Johnson Counties, Arkansas, 1840-1860. Fayetteville, AR: G. J. Battershell, 1996. 283p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 976.701 P81bat/

Koenig, Jennifer S. No Ma'am, No Negroes Here At All: African Americans in Johnson County, Arkansas, 1865-1920. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas, 2008. 127p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC976.701 J63ko/

Lawrence County:

Benton, Daniel Andrew. Segregationist Organizations and the Promotion of Violence During the Hoxie and Little Rock Crisis of 1955 and 1957. Little Rock, AR: University of Arkansas, 2009. 96p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 976.7 B44se/

Miller County:

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Geo. Travis Wright papers, 1824-1865. /Series G, Part 1, Roll 42-44/

Pope County:

Pulaski County:

Collings, Cathy J. Forgetting and Remembering: The Desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas--Race, Community Struggle, and Collective Memory. Santa Barbara, CA: Fielding Graduate Institute, 2004. 486p. Appendices, Bibliography. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.702 L73cc/

Scott County:

O'Nale, John Paul. Slavery in Scott County, Arkansas. S. l.: s. n., 19--. 23p. Index. /GC 976.701 Sco8ona/

Union County:

Cemeteries Union County, Arkansas, Book II: African American Cemeteries, Union County, Arkansas, Volume II. El Dorado, AR: Union County Genealogical Society, 2005. 168p. Index. /GC 976.701 Un3ce V.2/

Thomas, Charles E. Jelly Roll: A Black Neighborhood in a Southern Mill Town. Little Rock, AR: Rose Publishing Company, 1986. 157p. Appendix. Bibliography. /GC 976.702 C12t/

Washington County:

Robinson, Charles F. II and Lonnie R. Williams. Remembrances in Black: Personal Perspectives of the African American Experience at the University of Arkansas, 1940s-2000s. . Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2010. 343p. Appendices. Notes. /GC 976.702 F29ro/

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