04—BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY—Collective

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Adams, Russell L. Great Negroes, past and present. Illustrations by Eugene Winslow. David P. Ross, Jr., editor. Chicago, Afro-Am Pub. Co. [c1963] 182 p. illus. (part col.), maps (part col.), ports. (part col.) E185.96.A4
Bibliography: p. 178-179.
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Bardolph, Richard. The Negro vanguard. New York, Rinehart [1959] 388 p. E185.96.B28
Bibliography: p. 343-369.
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Barton, Rebecca C. Witnesses for freedom; Negro Americans in autobiography. Foreword by Alain Locke. New York, Harper [1948] 294 p. E185.96.B3
Bibliography: p. 286-287.
100
Bennett, Lerone. Pioneers in protest. Chicago, Johnson Pub. Co., 1968. 267 p. ports. E185.96.B4
101
Bontemps, Arna W. Famous Negro athletes. New York, Dodd, Mead [1964] 155 p. ports. (Famous biographies for young people) GV697.A1B575
102
Bontemps, Arna W., and Jack Conroy. Anyplace but here. New York, Hill and Wang [1966] 372 p. E185.6.B75 1966
"A revised and expanded version of They Seek a City."—Dust jacket.
Bibliography: p. 349-360.
103
Bontemps, Arna W. We have tomorrow. Illustrated with photographs by Marian Palfi. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1945. 131 p. ports. E185.96.B6
Biographical sketches of 12 young Negro men and women.
104
Brawley, Benjamin G. Negro builders and heroes. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1937. 315 p. ports. E185.96.B797
"Bibliographical notes": p. 293-304.
105
Brown, Hallie Q., comp. Homespun heroines and other women of distinction. Foreword by Mrs. Josephine Turpin Washington. [Xenia, Ohio, Aldine Pub. Co., c1926] 248 p. ports. E185.96.B84
106
Brown, William W. The black man, his antecedents, his genius, and his achievements. New York, T. Hamilton, 1863. 288 p. E185.96.B86
"Memoir of the author": p. 11-29.
107
Bruce, John E., comp. Short biographical sketches of eminent Negro men and women in Europe and the United States, with brief extracts from their writings and public utterances. Yonkers, N.Y. [Gazette Press] 1910. 103 p. E185.96.B88
108
Bryant, Lawrence C. Negro lawmakers in the South Carolina Legislature, 1869-1902. Orangeburg, School of Graduate Studies, South Carolina State College [1968] 142 p. E185.93.S7B75
Bibliographical footnotes.
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Bryant, Lawrence C. Negro senators and representatives in the South Carolina Legislature, 1868-1902. Orangeburg, S. C.[1968] 199 p. E185.93.S7B76
Bibliographical footnotes.
110
Bullock, Ralph W. In spite of handicaps; brief biographical sketches with discussion outlines of outstanding Negroes now living who are achieving distinction in various lines of endeavor. With a foreword by Channing H. Tobias. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1968] 140 p. ports. (Essay index reprint series) E185.96.B93 1968
Reprint of the 1927 ed.
Bibliography: p. 131-140.
111
Cherry, Gwendolyn, Ruby Thomas, and Pauline Willis. Portraits in color; the lives of colorful Negro women. New York, Pageant Press [1962] 224 p. illus. E185.96.C45
Bibliography: p. 207-224.
112
Child, Lydia M. F. The freedmen's book. New York, Arno Press, 1968. 277 p. (The American Negro, his history and literature) E185.86.C46 1968
Reprint of the 1865 ed.
113
Christmas, Walter, ed. Negroes in public affairs and government. Contributors: Clifford A. Bradshaw [and others] Photographic editor: Roland Mitchell. Preface: Alfred E. Cain. v. 1. Yonkers [N.Y.] Educational Heritage [1966] 352 p. illus., ports. (Negro heritage library) E185.96.C47
Bibliography: p. 342-345.
114
Daniel, Sadie I. Women builders. Washington, Associated Publishers [c1931] xviii, 187 p. plates, ports. E185.96.D23
Contents.—Lucy Craft Laney.—Maggie Lena Walker.—Janie Porter Barrett.—Mary McLeod Bethune.—Nannie Helen Burroughs.—Charlotte Hawkins Brown.—Jane Edna Hunter.
115
Dannett, Sylvia G. L. Profiles of Negro womanhood. Illustrations: Horace Varela. Roll of honor portraits: Tom Feelings. Yonkers, N.Y., Educational Heritage [1964-66] 2 v. illus., facsims., ports. (Negro heritage library) E185.96.D25
Includes bibliographies.
Contents.—v. 1. 1619-1900.—v. 2. 20th century.
116
David, Jay, comp. Growing up black. New York, Morrow, 1968. 256 p. [E185.96.D283] [TR: E185.96.G76 1992]
Includes well-known personalities such as Ethel Waters, Richard Wright, Dick Gregory, and Booker T. Washington.
117
Dobler, Lavinia G., and Edgar A. Toppin. Pioneers and patriots: the lives of six Negroes of the Revolutionary era. Illustrated by Colleen Browning. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1965. 118 p. illus., facsims., ports. (Zenith books) E185.96.D6
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Embree, Edwin R. 13 against the odds. New York, Viking Press, 1944. 261 p. ports. E185.96.E4
Contents.—Mary McLeod Bethune, Amazon of God.—Richard Wright, native son.—Charles S. Johnson, a scholar and a gentleman.—Walter White, little David.—George Washington Carver, sweet potato wizard.—Langston Hughes, Shakespeare in Harlem.—Marian Anderson, deep river of song.—W. E. B. DuBois, elder statesman.—Mordecai W. Johnson, Lord high chancellor.—William Grant Still, music maker.—A. Philip Randolph, Saint Philip of the Pullman porters.—Joe Louis, champion of the world.—Paul Robeson, voice of freedom.
119
Foley, Albert S. God's men of color; the colored Catholic priests of the United States, 1854-1954. With a foreword by Richard J. Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. New York, Farrar, Straus [1955] 322 p. BX4670.F6
Reprint issued by Arno Press, 1969.
120
Haynes, Elizabeth R. Unsung heroes. New York, DuBois and Dill, 1921. 270 p. illus., ports. E185.96.H4
Contents.—Frederick Douglass.—Paul Laurence Dunbar.—Booker T. Washington.—Harriet Tubman.—Alexander S. Pushkin.—Blanche Kelso Bruce.—Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.—Benjamin Banneker.—Phillis Wheatley.—Toussaint L'Ouverture.—Josiah Henson.—Sojourner Truth.—Crispus Attucks.—Alexandre Dumas.—Paul Cuffé.—Alexander Crummell.—John Mercer Langston.
121
Hill, Roy L. Who's who in the American Negro press. Dallas, Royal Pub. Co. [1960] 80 p. PN4888.N4H5
Bibliography: p. 70.
122
Hughes, Langston. Famous Negro heroes of America. Illustrated by Gerald McCann. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1958. 202 p. illus. (Famous biographies for young people) E185.96.H82
123
Hughes, Langston. Famous Negro music makers: illustrated with photographs. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1955. 179 p. illus. (Famous biographies for young people) ML3556.H9
124
Huie, William B. Three lives for Mississippi. With an introduction by Martin Luther King, Jr. [New York] New American Library [1968] 160 p. illus., maps, plans, ports. (A Signet book) F347.N4H8 1968
Concerns civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James E. Chaney, and Michael H. Schwerner.
125
Lomax, Louis E. To kill a black man. Los Angeles, Holloway House Pub. Co.; [distributed by: All America Distributors Corp., 1968] 256 p. E185.97.L5L6
Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are the subjects of this study.
126
Majors, Monroe A. Noted Negro women, their triumphs and activities. Chicago, Donohue & Henneberry [c1893] xvi, 365 p. illus., ports. E185.96.M23
127
Metcalf, George R. Black profiles. New York, McGraw-Hill [1968] 341 p. E185.96.M48
Bibliographical references included in "A note on sources" (p. 337-340).
Contents.—Martin Luther King, Jr.—William E. B. DuBois.—Roy Wilkins.—Thurgood Marshall.—Jackie Robinson.—Harriet Tubman.—Medgar Wiley Evers.—James H. Meredith.—Rosa Parks.—Edward W. Brooke.—Whitney Moore Young, Jr.
128
Moseley, J. H. Sixty years in Congress and twenty-eight out. New York, Vantage Press [1960] 99 p. illus. [JK1021.M75] [TR: E185.96.M84]
129
[Mott, Abigail F., and M. S. Wood], comps. Narratives of colored Americans. Printed by order of the Trustees of the residuary estate of Lindley Murray. New York, W. Wood & co., 1877. E185.96.M92
130
Murray, Pauli. Proud shoes; the story of an American family. New York, Harper [1956] 276 p. E185.97.M95
131
The National register; pertinent facts about colored Americans. Louisville, Ky., Register Publications, 1952. 632 p. E185.96.N37
Editor: T. J. Johnson.
132
Newbold, Nathan C., ed. Five North Carolina Negro educators; prepared under the direction of N. C. Newbold. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1939. 142 p. ports. LC2802.N8N4
Biographical sketches composed by committees organized in nine North Carolina colleges, each committee consisting of one faculty adviser and one or more students.
"Published under the auspices of the Division of Cooperation in Education and Race Relations; cooperating organizations: State Department of Public Instruction, University of North Carolina [and] Duke University."
Contents.—Simon Green Atkins.—James Benson Dudley.—Annie Wealthy Holland.—Peter Weddick Moore.—Ezekiel Ezra Smith.
133
Nichols, Charles H. Many thousand gone; the ex-slaves' account of their bondage and freedom. Leiden, Brill, 1963. xvi, 229 p. (Studies in American literature and history, 1) E444.N5
Bibliography: p. [213]-224.
134
Ovington, Mary W. Portraits in color. New York, Viking Press, 1927. 241 p. E185.96.O96
Contents.—James Weldon Johnson.—Marcus Garvey.—Max Yergan.—Mordecai W. Johnson.—Lucy Laney.—Robert Russa Moton.—W. E. Burghardt DuBois.—Scipio Africanus Jones.—Walter White.—Robert S. Abbott.—Maggie Lena Walker.—Eugene Kinckle Jones.—Louis Tompkins Wright.—Ernest Everett Just.—George Washington Carver.—Janie Porter Barrett.—Langston Hughes.—Paul Robeson.—Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller.—Roland Hayes.
135
Redding, Jay Saunders. The lonesome road; the story of the Negro's part in America. New York, Doubleday, 1958. 355 p. (Mainstream of America series) E185.61.R298
Bibliography: p. 335-340.
The lives of 12 Negro men and women and their struggle for equal rights.
136
Richardson, Ben A. Great American Negroes; rev. by William A. Fahey, illustrated by Robert Hallock. New York, Crowell [1956] 339 p. illus. E185.96.R5 1956
137
Robinson, Wilhelmena S. Historical Negro biographies. New York, Publishers Co. [1967] 291 p. ports. (International library of Negro life and history) DT18.R57
Published under the auspices of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
Bibliography: p. 271-281.
138
Rogers, Joel A. World's great men of color. New York, J. A. Rogers [1946-47] 2 v. illus., ports. DT18.R59
On cover: 3000 B.C. to 1946 A.D.
Paged continuously.
Includes bibliographies.
139
Rollins, Charlemae H. Famous American Negro poets. New York, Dodd, Mead [1965] 95 p. ports. (Famous biographies for young people) PS153.N5R6
140
Rollins, Charlemae H. Famous Negro entertainers of stage, screen, and TV. New York, Dodd, Mead [1967] 122 p. ports. (Famous biographies for young people) PN2286.R6
Contents.—Ira Aldridge.—Marian Anderson.—Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong.—Josephine Baker.—Harry Belafonte.—Nat "King" Cole.—Sammy Davis, Jr.—"Duke" Ellington.—Lena Horne.—Eartha Kitt.—Sidney Poitier.—Leontyne Price.—Paul Robeson.—-Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.—"Bert" Williams.—Thomas "Fats" Waller.
141
Rollins, Charlemae H. They showed the way; forty American Negro leaders. New York, Crowell [1964] 165 p. E185.96.R6
142
Scruggs, Lawson A. Women of distinction: remarkable in works and invincible in character. Introduction by Mrs. Josephine Turpin Washington. Special contributions by T. Thomas Fortune, William Still. Raleigh, L. A. Scruggs, 1893. xxiii, 382 p. illus., ports. E185.96.S4
143
Simmons, William J. Men of mark; eminent, progressive and rising. New York, Arno Press, 1968. 1141 p. ports. (The American Negro, his history and literature) E185.96.S45 1968
Reprint of the 1887 ed.
144
Spellman, A. B. Four lives in the bebop business. New York, Pantheon Books [1966] xiv, 241 p. ML394.S74
145
Sterne, Emma G. I have a dream. Illustrated by Tracy Sugarman. New York, Knopf [1965] x, 229, iv p. illus. E185.96.S79
Bibliography: p. [i]-iv (3d group).
Contents.—Lift every voice and sing: Marian Anderson.—For life, liberty, and the pursuit of jobs: Asa Philip Randolph.—Freedom on the seas: Hugh Mulzac.—Hammer of justice: Thurgood Marshall.—Tired feet and rested hearts: Rosa Lee Parks.—At the point of the bayonet: Daisy Bates.—When freedom is a cup of coffee: James Farmer.—The man with the bulletproof soul: Fred Shuttlesworth.—We shall overcome: John Lewis.—One day out of a long tomorrow.
146
Styles, Fitzhugh L. The Negro lawyers' contribution to seventy-one years of our progress. 71st anniversary celebration of Negro progress, Philadelphia, 1863-1934. [Philadelphia, Summer Press, c1934] [13] p. ports. E185.96.S83
147
Troup, Cornelius V. Distinguished Negro Georgians. Dallas, Royal Pub. Co. [1962] 203 p. E185.93.G4T7
Bibliography: p. 195-199.
148
Washington, John E. They knew Lincoln. With an introduction by Carl Sandburg. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1942. 244, [21] p. facsims., plates, ports. E457.15.W32
"Personal narrative of a Negro boy and man who sought all that could be possibly known about Abraham Lincoln from Negroes having impressions or facts he considered worth record."—Introduction.
149
Wright, Richard R. The bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. [Nashville] Printed by the A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 1963. 389 p. BX8442.W7
150
Young, Andrew S. N. Great Negro baseball stars, and how they made the major leagues. New York, A. S. Barnes [1953] 248 p. illus. [GV865.Y6A3] [TR: GV865.A1Y6]