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A Bibliography of African American Family History at the Newberry Library (bibliography)
African American Life in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago History Museum)
African-American Records: Genealogical Research Series Pamphlet
Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago
Chicago African American and Latino Newspapers Microfilm Collection (Chicago Public Library)
Dr. Richard Eels House (Underground Railroad)
Generations of Pride: African American Timeline
IL Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722-1863)
Illinois African American Genealogy
Illinois African American Inventors by City, 1867-2006
John Hossack House (Underground Railroad)
Mapping the Stacks: A Guide to Black Chicago's Hidden Archives
Owen Lovejoy House (Underground Railroad)
Photos from the Past
Public Notice ... Martin Barker (digital image of advertisement)
Slavery Era Insurance Policies Registry (IL)
Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum
General:
African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. Illinois churches and associations. /Microfilm 42/
Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society. Constitution. Chicago, IL: Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society, 1984. 7p. /GC 977.302 C43af/
Andrews, Daryl Lamar. Masonic Abolitionists: Freemasonry and the Underground Railroad in Illinois. Chicago, IL: Andrews Press, 2011. 216p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.3 An26m/
Armfield, Felix L. Black Life in West Central Illinois. Chicago, IL: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.301 M14ar/
Dexter, Darrel. Bondage in Egypt: Slavery in Southern Illinois. Cape Girardeau, MO: Center for Regional History, Southeast Missouri State University, 2011. 636p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illusrations. Index. Notes. Slave Lists. /GC 977.3 D523bo/
LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer. Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistence. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014. 232p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 L328fr/
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/
Leichtle, Kurt E. and Bruce G. Carveth. Crusade Against Slavery: Edward Coles, Pioneer of Freedom. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2011. 268p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 977.3 L53c/
Materson, Lisa Gail. Respectable Partisans: African American Women in Electoral Politics, 1877 to 1936. Los Angeles, CA: L. G. Materson, 2000. 195p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.3 M419re/
Miller, Edward A., Jr. The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 1998. 267p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.34 IL5mil/
Muelder, Owen W. The Underground Railroad in Western Illinois. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008. 191p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.3 M887u/
The Patricia Liddell Researchers News Journal. Chicago, IL: Patricia Liddell Researchers, 1991-. /Periodical/
Pirtle, Carol. Escape Betwixt Two Suns: A True Tale of the Underground Railroad in Illinois. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 141p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.301 R15pa/
Portwood, Shirley Motley. Tell Us A Story: An African American Family in the Heartland. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 242p. Genealogical Chart. Photograph. /GC 977.302 Sp84pn/
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. John Augustine Washington papers, 1824-1860. /Series M, Part 6, Roll 14/
Simeone, James. Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois: The Bottomland Republic. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. 289p. Bibliography. Index. Map. Notes. /GC 977.3 Si45de/
Surname Directory, 2004. Chicago, IL: Patricia Liddell Researchers, Chicago Chapter, Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, 2004. 57p. Index. /GC 977.302 C43pl, 2004/
Sutton, Raleigh Laverne. From Africa to Illinois: The Search for Freedom and a Place to Call Home. IL: R. L. Sutton, 2017.189p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.3 Su87f/
Sutton, Raleigh. Slavery in Illinois: Early African American Settlements, The Elgin Colony and Others. IL: R. Sutton, 2015. 164p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.3 Su87s/
Turner, Glennette Tilley. The Underground Railroad in Illinois. Glen Ellyn, IL: Newman Educational Publishing, 2001. 289p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Photographs. /GC 977.3 T851un/
Wilbur H. Siebert Collection: Microfilm Edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 2001. Underground Railroad. /Microfilm Rolls 1-3/
Zucker, Charles N. The Free Negro Question: Race Relations in Ante-Bellum Illinois, 1801-1860. Evanston, IL: C. N. Zucker, 1972. 403p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.3 Z831fr/
Cook County:
1927 Intercollegian Wonder Book or 1779 - The Negro in Chicago - 1927. Chicago, IL: The Washington Intercollegiate Club, 1927. 232p. /GC 977.302 C43neg V.1/
Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago Newsletter. Chicago, IL: Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago, v.1-, 1980-. /GC 977.302 C43afa/
Best, Wallace D. Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 250p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs /GC 977.302 C43bew/
Black, Ford S. Black's Blue Book: Business and Professional Directory (Chicago). Chicago: s. n., 1918, 1919, 1921, 1923/4. /GC 977.302 C43blu/
Blair, Cynthia Marie. Vicious Commerce: African American Women's Sex Work and the Transformation of Urban Space in Chicago, 1850-1915. Cambridge, MA: C. M. Blair, 1999. 434p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43blc/
Chatelain, Marcia. South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. 240p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43chat/
Colored People's Blue-Book and Business Directory of Chicago, IL, 1905. Chicago: Celerity Printing Company, 1905. 140p. /GC 977.302 C43co/
Cooper, Arshay. A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team. New York: Flatiron Books, 2020. 228p. /GC 977.302 C43coo/
Davis-Hayes, Kenya. Lessons of Place: The Creation of Physical and Curricular Segregation in Chicago Between 1910 and 1925. West Lafayette, IN: K. Davis-Hayes, 2005. 200p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43davi/
Dolinar, Brian, ed. The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 286p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. The New Black Studies Series. /GC 977.302 C43wpb/
Dorsey, James. Up South: Blacks in Chicago's Suburbs, 1719-1983. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press, Inc., 1986. 113p. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43do/
Drake, St. Clair and Horace R. Cayton. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 858p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43dra/
Green, Adam. Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. 306p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43grc/
Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. 384p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43grj/
Hartfield, Ronne. Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. 178p. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43har/
Hine, Darlene Clark and John McClusky, Jr., eds. The Black Chicago Renaissance. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012. 208p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43bcr/
Kimble, Lionel Jr. A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment & Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. 201p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43kim/
Kirkwood, Roudell. The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and the Education of Afrikana Adults: An Historical Study of Quinn Chapel, Chicago, Illinois, 1947-1997. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University, 2001. 147p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43ame/
Lerner, Daniel J. Visions of a Sporting City: "Shadowball" and Black Chicago, 1887-1952. Lansing, MI: D. J. Lerner, 2002. 242p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43Ler/
Mahoney, Olivia. Douglas/Grand Boulevard: A Chicago Neighborhood. Chicago, IL: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 128p. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 977.302 C43mah/
McElroy, Njoki, PhD. 1012 Natchez: A Memoir of Grace, Hardship, and Love. Dallas, TX: Brown Books Publishing Group, 2009. 208p.
Morrow, Solomon. The Bud Billiken Day Parade and Picnic Among Chicago's Black Community, 1929-2000. Baltimore, MD: Morgan State University, 2008. 69p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43ms/
Ogden, Mary Elaine. The Chicago Negro Community: A Statistical Description. Chicago: W. P. A., 1939(?). 246p. Index. Bibliography. /GC 977.302 C43un/
Our Heritage: Family Stories. Chicago: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2010. 386p. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 977.302 C43ou/
Reed, Christopher Robert. Black Chicago's First Century, Volume 1, 1833-1900. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2005. 582p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43ree/
Reed, Christopher Robert. The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 271p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43rc/
Rice, Myiti Sengstacke. Chicago Defender. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012. 127p. Illustrations. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 977.302 C43ric/
Rocksborough-Smith, Jan. Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 214p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43roc/
Sideman, Robert A. . African Americans in Glencoe: The Little Migration. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009. 127p. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 G48si/
Strickland, Arvarh E. History of the Chicago Urban League. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2001. 287p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43str/
Thompson, Lowell D. African Americans in Chicago. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012. 127p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 977.302 C43tl/
Weems, Robert E., Jr. Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996. 158p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Tables. /GC 977.302 C43we/
Who's Who in Black Chicago. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing Company, 2012. 288p. Indices. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43who 2012/
DuPage County:
Maas, David E. Marching to the Drumbeat of Abolitionism: Wheaton College in the Civil War. Wheaton, IL: Wheaton College, 2010. 235p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 W56md/
Gallatin County:
Blackmore, Jacqueline Yvonne. African Americans and Race Relations in Gallatin County, Illinois from the Eighteenth Century to 1870. DeKalb, IL: J. Y. Blackmore, 1996. 302p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.301 G13bl/
Musgrave, Jon. Slaves, Salt, Sex & Mr. Crenshaw: The Real Story of the Old Slave House and America's Reverse Underground R.R. Marion, IL: IllinoisHistory.com, 2004. 512p. Appendices. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.3 M972s/
Kane County:
Buck, Dennis. From Slavery to Glory: African Americans Come to Aurora, Illinois, 1850-1920. Aurora, IL: Aurora Historical Society, 2005. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 Au68bu/
Sutton, Raleigh. Slavery in Illinois: Early African American Settlements, The Elgin Colony and Others. IL: R. Sutton, 2015. 164p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.3 Su87s/
Sutton, Raleigh. The African American Heritage of Elgin, Illinois and the Greater Kane County Area: A Genealogy of Most of the First Families from the Days as Contrabands to the Present Time(1856-1996. Elgin, IL: R. Sutton, 1996. 185p. "A Collection of Family Relationships." /GC 977.301 K13s/
Kankakee County:
Baron, Dave. Pembroke: A Rural, Black Community on the Illinois Dunes. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016. 234p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.301 K14bar/
McLean County:
Black Families of Normal, Illinois: Genealogies of Long-Time Residents of the Town of Normal. [Levant, ME: [B.E. Bryan], [2009]. 310p. /GC 977.302 N78BL/
Washington, Caribel. African-American Residents of Bloomington-Normal from the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, City Directories, 1885-1917. Bloomington, IL: McLean County Genealogical Society, 2002. 90p. Bibliography. /GC 977.302 B63cy/
Peoria County:
Smallwood, Arwin D., Ph.D. Blacks at Bradley, 1897-2000. Chicago, IL: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.302 P39ry/
Rock Island County:
McAdams, William H. Death Index: African-Americans and Others in Rock Island, Illinois Area. S. l: s.n., 200-. Vols. 1-9. /GC 977.301 R59a/
Saint Clair County:
Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita. America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 276p. Index. Notes. Tables. /GC 977.301 L51ch/
Lumpkins, Charles L. American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2008. 312p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.203 Ea8Luc/
Lumpkins, Charles L. Black East St. Louis: Politics and Economy in a Border City, 1860-1945. University Park, PA: C. L. Lumpkins, 2006. 358p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.302 Ea8Lu/
Sangamon County:
Bahde, Thomas. The Life and Death of Gus Reed: A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois During the Civil War and Reconstruction. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014. 226p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 977.302 Sp84st/
Frances, Mary and Beverly Helm-Renfro. African Americans in Springfield. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2022. 127p. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 977.302 Sp84fr/
Hart, Robert E. The Spirit of Springfield's Early African-Americans. Springfield, IL: Sangamon County Historical Society, 2010. 24p. Notes. /GC 977.302 Sp84hr/
Krohe, James, Jr. Summer of Rage: The Springfield Race Riot of 1908. Springfield, IL: Sangamon County Historical Society, 1996. 26p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 977.302 Sp84kj/
Senechal, Roberta. The Sociogenesis of a Race Riot, Springfield, Illinois, in 1908. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990. 231p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Blacks in the New World Series. /GC 977.302 Sp84sen/
St. Clair County:
Rudwick, Elliott. Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1982. 300p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 977.302 Ea8ru/
Will County:
Rajala, Hope. Black and White Together. Lockport, IL: Will County Historical Society, 2004. 25p. /GC 977.301 W66rh/
Winnebago County:
Molyneaux, John L. African Americans in Early in Early Rockford, 1834-1871. Rockford, IL: Rockford Public Library, 2000. 161p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 977.302 R62mo/