The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. PorterWesley, Dorothy Porter
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The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter
Wesley, Dorothy Porter
African Americans -- Bibliography
118
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
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