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Rural Black West Studies

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

Regional

  • Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld, The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration (Winnipeg, MB: Bison Books, 2023)

  • Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo, Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2019)

  • Bruce A. Glasrud, African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2009)

  • ___. Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2011)

  • Bruce A Glasrud, and Michael N. Searles, Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, behind the Badge (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016)

  • ___. Buffalo Soldiers in the West (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007)

  • Kenneth Marvin Hamilton, Black Towns and Profit: Promotion and Development in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1877-1915 (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1991)

  • Kenneth W. Porter, The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013 reprint)

  • Frank N. Schubert, Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West (Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003)

  • Karla Slocum, Black Towns, Black Futures (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019)

  • Pewarwardy

  • Tricia Martineau Wagner, African American Women of the Old West (Lanham, MD: TwoDot, 2007)

 

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Arizona

  • Geta LeSeur, Not All Okies Are White: The Lives of Black Cotton Pickers in Arizona (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2000),

 

California 

  • Charles Alexander, Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A.M., Ph.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U.S. Army Charles Alexander (Independently Published, 2010)

  • Gloria Pierrot-Dyer, Allensworth: Two Tales of Triumph (Independently Published, 2020)

  • Michael Eissinger, African Americans in the Rural San Joaquin Valley, California: Colonization Efforts and Townships (Independently Published, 2008)

  • ___. Re-Collecting the Past: An Examination of Rural Historically African American Settlements Across the San Joaquin Valley (Independently Published, 2017)

  • Delores Nason McBroome, “Harvests of Gold: African American Boosterism, Agriculture and Investment in Allensworth and Little Liberia,” in Lawrence B. de Graaf, Kevin Mulroy, & Quintard Taylor, eds., Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001)

  • Robert S. Mikell, A Pictorial History of Allensworth: A Unique Black Town (1985) Available through public libraries.

  • Barron K. Oder, Education, “Race-Adjustment”, and the military: The life and work of Chaplain Allen Allensworth, 24th Infantry, U .S. Army (1995) Available through public libraries.

  • Evelyn Radcliffe, Out of Darkness: The Story of Allen Allensworth (Inkling Press, 1998)

  • Eleanor M. Ramsey, Allensworth: A Study in Social Change (1978), Available through public libraries.

  • Alice C. Royal and Scott Braley, Allensworth: The Freedom Colony (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2008)

  • Alice C. Royal, Mickey Ellinger, and Scott Braley, Allensworth, The Freedom Colony: A California African American Township (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2016)

  • Alice LaMurle Smith; Parnell Lovelace, eds., It Happened at Allensworth (1997) Available through public libraries.

 

Kansas

  • Daniel Chu and Bill Shaw, "Going Home to Nicodemus: The Story of an African American Frontier Town and the Pioneers Who Settled It" (New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1994)

  • Nell Irvin Painter, Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992 reprint)

 

Montana

  • Anthony W. Wood, Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023)

 

New Mexico

  • Timothy E. Nelson, Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930 (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2023)

 

Oklahoma

  • Kendra T. Field, Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018)

 

South Dakota

  • Oscar Micheaux, The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer (Public Domain, 1913)


Texas

  • Bruce A. Glasrud, Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2015)

  • Bruce A Glasrud and Deborah M Liles, African Americans in Central Texas History: From Slavery to Civil Rights (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2019)

  • Shirley Boteler Mock, Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010)

  • Kevin Mulroy, The Seminole Freedmen: A History (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016)

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