Following is a brief listing of books and videotapes containing information about African American history.
|
Title |
Author |
|
150 Greatest African Americans (2002) | Asante, Medef K. |
| African American: Portrait of a People (1994) |
Estell, Kenneth |
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African American Desk Reference (2002) | New York Public Library, The Schomburg Center |
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The African Heritage Cookbook (1971) |
Mendes, Helen |
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Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1968) |
Turner, Lorenzo Dow |
| Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts (1983) | Ferris, William, editor |
| The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (1978) |
Vlach, John M. |
| Afro-American Women of the South and the Advancement of Race (1981) | Neverdon-Martin, Cynthia |
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And Not Afraid To Dare: The Stories of Ten African Women (1998) |
Bolden, Tonya |
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As the Old Folks Usta' Say…Black Proverbs, Sayings and Folk Wit (1998) |
Jennings, Corinne |
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At Freedom's Door: African American Founding Fathers And Lawyers In Reconstruction South Carolina (2000) | Underwood, James L. and Burke, W. Lewis,eds. |
| Bittle En' T'Ing': Gullah Cooking With Maum Chrish' (1992) | Geraty, Virginia Mixson |
| Black American Politics: From the Washington Marches to Jesse Jackson (1985) | Marable, Manning |
| The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast (1922) | Gonzales, Ambrose E. |
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Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success (2008) |
Keith C. Holmes, Roslyn Morrison, Sandra Lewis, and Thomas B. Feaster |
| Black Leadership in the 20th Century (1998) |
Marable, Manning |
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Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction (1977) | Holt, Thomas C. |
| The Black Spiritual Movement (1984) |
Baer, Hans A. |
| Black Women in America: An Historic Encyclopedia (1993) | Baer, Hans A. |
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Black Working Women (1999) |
Landry, Bert |
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Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980 (1984) |
Fite, Gilbert |
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Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (1984) |
Joyner, Charles |
|
Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College (1983) |
Summerville, James |
| Escape Artist: Narrative of the Life of Henry "Box" Brown |
Newman, Richard, Ed. |
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Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States (1994) | Abraham, Henry J. and Perry, Barbara A. |
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From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore (2002) |
Dance, Daryl Cumser, ed. |
| God's Long Summer: The Story of Faith and Civil Rights (2000) |
Marsh, Charles |
|
GULLAH CULTURE IN AMERICA, (2007) |
Foreword by Emory Shaw Campbell |
|
Gullah Images (1996) |
Jonathan Green |
| The State of Black South Carolina: An Action Agenda for the Future - 20th Anniversary Edition (2008) | Various writers, published by the Columbia Urban League |
|
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary |
Williams, Juan |
Special thanks to the State Department of Education and SCETV for compiling and sharing lesson ideas and broad-based activities related to South Carolina African-American History.
