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Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City
George B. Hitchcock House (Underground Railroad)
Henderson Lewelling House (Underground Railroad)
Iowa Freedom Trail Project (List of individuals who have been identified as involved in Underground Railroad activity in Iowa.)
Jordan House (Underground Railroad)
Tabor Antislavery Historic District (Underground Railroad)
General:
African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. Iowa churches and associations. /Microfilm 43/
Barnes, Charline J. Life Narratives of African Americans in Iowa. Chicago, IL: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 128p. Bibliography. Photographs. Voices of America Series. /GC 977.7 B26ia/
Barnes, Charline J. and Floyd Bumpers. Iowa's Black Legacy. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000. 128p. Black America Series. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 977.7 B26i/
Bergmann, Leola Marjorie Nelson. The Negro in Iowa. Iowa City, IA: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1969. 96p. Editorial addendum by Wm. J. Petersen. Bibliography. Notes. Tables. /GC 977.7 B454n/
Hawthorne, Frances E. African Americans in Iowa: A Chronicle of Contributions, 1830-1992. Des Moines, IA: African American History Project, 1992. 101p. Bibliography. Illusrations. Index.
Lehman, Christopher P. Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865: A History of Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011. 222p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977 L528s/
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/
Morris, William S. . In Defense of the Nation: Black Iowans at War. IA: BookBaby, 2024. 151p. Notes. Photographs. /977.7 M83de/
Silag, Bill, ed. Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, 1838-2000. Des Moines, IA: State Historical Society of Iowa, 2001. . 580p Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.7 Ou89s/
Soike, Lowell J. Necessary Courage: Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle Against Slavery. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2013. 292p. Bibliographys. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.7 So33n/
Wilbur H. Siebert Collection: Microfilm Edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 2001. Underground Railroad. /Microfilm Roll 4/
Dubuque County:
Chaichian, Mohammad A. White Racism on the West Urban Frontier: Dynamics of Race and Class in Dubuque, Iowa (1800-2000). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006. 254p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.701 D85ch/
Jefferson County:
Goff, Rory. Anti-Slavery and the Underground Railroad in Fairfield, Iowa. . Fairfield, IA: Merrymaking Archives, LLC., 2018. 119p., Notes. /GC 977.702 F16go
Johnson County:
Hill, Lena M. & Michael D. Hill, eds. Invisible Hawkeyes: African Americans at the University of Iowa During the Long Civil Rights Era. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2016. 230p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.702 Io9hi/
Linn County:
Koos, Lynn. The Only One. Cedar Rapids, IA: African American Museum of Iowa, 2012. 21p. Photographs. /GC 977.702 C32afo/
Monroe County:
Chase, Rachelle. Lost Buxton. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2017. 127p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 977.701 M75cr/
Gradwohl, David M. and Nancy M. Osborn. Exploring Buried Buxton: Archaeology of an Abandoned Iowa Coal Mining Town with a Large Black Population. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1984. 207p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 977.701 M75gd/
Monroe County, Iowa Marriages, African American 1900-1929, Groom Index & Bride Index. Des Moines, IA: Iowa Genealogical Society, 1982. 48p. /GC 977.701 M75mad/
Polk County:
Parker, Honesty. African Americans of Des Moines and Polk County. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2011. 127p. Photographs. "Images of America Series." /GC 977.702 D46par/