The African American West in 20th and 21st Century History and Culture

Alaska

• Everett Louis Overstreet, Black on a Background of White: A Chronicle of Afro-Americans' Involvement in America's Last Frontier, Alaska (Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Black Caucus/New Pub. Co., 1988)

• Ian C. Hartman and David Reamer, Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022)

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Arizona

• Gretchen M. Bataille and Albert L McHenry, Living the Dream in Arizona: The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, 1992)

• Sharon Bramlett, Profile and Status of African American Women in Arizona: Background Report to the 1994 Arizona Black Town Hall (Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, 1994)

• Richard E. Harris, The First 100 Years: A History of Arizona Blacks (Apache Junction, AZ: Relmo Publishers, 1983)

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California

• Ingrid Banks, Gaye Johnson, George Lipsitz, Ula Taylor, Daniel Widener, and Clyde Woods (eds.), Black California Dreamin': The Crises of California’s African-American Communities (Santa Barbara: University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Black Studies Research, 2012)

• Delilah L. Beasley, The Negro Trail Blazers of California (Los Angeles: Times Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1919)

• Roger Daniels and Spencer Olin, Jr., Racism in California: A Reader in the History of Oppression (London: MacMillan Publishers, 1972)

• Lawrence B. De Graaf, Kevin Mulroy, and Quintard Taylor (eds.), Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001)

• Rudolph M. Lapp, Afro-Americans in California (San Francisco: Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co., 1979)

• Charles Wollenberg (ed.), Neither Separate nor Equal: Race and Racism in California (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1971)

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Hawai’i

• Beth Bailey and David Farber, The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii (New York : Free Press, 1992)

• D. Molentia Guttman and Ernest Golden, African Americans in Hawaii (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub., 2011)

• Gerald Horne, Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011)

• Daphne Barbee-Wooten, African American Attorneys in Hawaii (Kaʻaʻawa, HI: Pacific Raven Press, 2010)

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Idaho

• Laurie Mercier and Carole Simon-Smolinski, Idaho's Ethnic Heritage: Historical Overviews (Boise, ID: Idaho Ethnic Heritage Project, 1990)

• Mamie O. Oliver, Idaho Ebony: The Afro-American Presence in Idaho State History (Boise, ID: M. O. Oliver, 1990)

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Kansas

• Marguerite Mitchell Marshall, Patricia Weisenburger, and Susan Barton, An Account of Afro-Americans in Southeast Kansas, 1884-1984 (Manhattan, KS: Wheatland Books, 1986)

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Montana

• Anthony W. Wood, Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877–1930 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2021)

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Nebraska

• Bertha Calloway and Alonzo N. Smith, Visions of Freedom on the Great Plains: An Illustrated History of African Americans in Nebraska (Virginia Beach, VA : Donning Co., 1998)

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Nevada

 

New Mexico

• Charlotte K. Mock, Bridges: New Mexican Black Women, 1900-1950 (Albuquerque, NM : New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women, 1985)

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Oklahoma

• Jimmie Lewis Franklin, The Blacks in Oklahoma (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980)

• J. M. Gaskin, Black Baptists in Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, OK: Messenger Press, 1992)

• Arthur L. Tolson, The Black Oklahomans: A History, 1541-1972 (New Orleans: Edwards Print, 1974)

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Oregon

• Elizabeth McLagan, A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940 (Portland, OR: Georgian Press, 1980)

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South Dakota

• Betti Van Epps-Taylor, + (Pierre, SD: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2008)

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Texas

• Melvin J. Banks, "The Pursuit of Equality: The Movement for First Class Citizenship Among Negroes in Texas, 1920-1950" (Dissertation: Syracuse, NY, 1962)

• Alwyn Barr, Black Texans: A History of Negroes in Texas, 1528-1971 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973)

• Alwyn Barr and Robert Carver (eds.), Black Leaders: Texans for Their Times (Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association, 1990)

• Bruce A. Glasrud (ed.), African Americans in South Texas History (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2011)

• Bruce A. Glasrud and Charles A. Braithwaite (eds.), African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press 2009)

• Bruce A. Glasrud and Paul H. Carlson, Slavery to Integration: Black Americans in West Texas (Abilene, TX: State House Press, 2007)

• Bruce A. Glasrud and Laurie Champion (eds.), Exploring the Afro-Texas Experience: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources about Black Texans (Alpine, TX: Sul Ross State University, 2000)

• Bruce A. Glasrud and Archie P. McDonald (eds.), Blacks in East Texas History: Selections from the East Texas Historical Journal (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2008)

• Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre (eds.), Black Women in Texas History (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2008)

• Bruce A. Glasrud and James M. Smallwood (eds.), The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2007)

• Michael R. Heintze, Private Black Colleges in Texas, 1865-1954 (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985)

• Debra A. Reid, Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2007)

• Ruthe Winegarten, Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995)

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Utah

• France Davis, Light in the Midst of Zion: A History of Black Baptists in Utah, 1892-1996 (Salt Lake City, UT: University Pub., LLC, 1997)​

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