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• Blake Allmendinger, Imagining the African American West (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005)

• James P. Beckwourth, The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, As Told to Thomas D. Bonner (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1856)

• Eugene H. Berwanger. The Frontier against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

• Robert B. Betts. In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1985.

• Monroe Lee Billington and Roger D. Hardaway (eds.), African Americans on the Western Frontier (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1998)

• James F. Brooks, ed. Confounding the Color Line:  The Indian-Black Experience in North America. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

• Albert S. Broussard, Expectations of Equality: A History of Black Westerners (Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2012)

• Sucheng Chan, Douglas Henry Daniels, T. Garcia, Terry Wilson (eds.), Peoples of Color in the American West (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Co., 1993)

• John M. Corroll (ed.), The Black Military Experience in the American West (New York: Liveright, 1971)

• Marta Effinger-Crichlow, Staging Migrations toward an American West: From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2014)

• Lawrence B. de Graaf, “Recognition, Racism, and Reflections on the Writing of Western Black History” (Pacific Historical Review 44:1, February 1975, 22-51)

• 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)

• Douglas Flamming, African Americans in the West (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009)

• Arlen L. Fowler, Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971)

• 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)

• Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz (eds.), Harlem Renaissance in the West: The New Negro's Western Experiences (Boston: Pearson, 2012)

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

• Lawrence D. Hogan and Jules Tygiel, Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball (Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006)

• John B. Holway, Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues (New York: Dover Publications, 2012)

• Franklin J. James, Betty L McCummings, and Eileen A Tynan, Minorities in the Sunbelt (New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1984)

• Michael K. Johnson, Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002)

• William Loren Katz, The Black West: A Pictorial History (New York: Touchstone, 1987)

• ___. Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage (New York: Atheneum, 1986)

• William H. Leckie, The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967)

• Michael E. Lomax, Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Sport Experience in the Era of Change (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2008)

• Emily Lutenski, West of Harlem: African American Writers and the Borderlands (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015)

• Dan Moos, Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2005)

• Kevin Mulroy, Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 1993)

•  Nolie Mumey, James Pierson Beckwourth, 1856-1866, An Enigmatic Figure of the West: A History of the Later Years of His Life (Denver, CO: Fred A. Rosenstock, 1957)

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

• ___. The Negro on the American Frontier (North Stratford, NH: Ayer Company Publishers, 1971)​

• John W. Ravage, Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997)

• Herbert G. Ruffin II, "African Americans in Western Historiography Since 2000" (Montana the Magazine of Western History: Digital Edition 1:1, 2020)

• Herbert G. Ruffin II and Dwayne A. Mack (eds.), Freedom’s Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).

• W. Sherman Savage, Blacks in the West (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976)

• Lillian Schissel, Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West (New York: Aladdin, 1995)

• 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)

• Quintard Taylor, “African American History in the American West,” Blackpast.Org

• ___. "From Esteban to Rodney King: Five Centuries of African American History in the West" (Montana the Magazine of Western History Volume 46, Winter 1996 Issue)

• ___. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the West, 1528-1990. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

• Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore (eds.), African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)

• John Upton Terrell, Estevanico, the Black (Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1968)

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

• Elinor Wilson, Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man, War Chief of the Crows, Trader, Trapper.... (Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 1980)

• 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)

• Arizona

  • Charles Barkley, I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It (New York: Random House, 2003)

  • Charles Barkley, Outrageous!: The Fine Life and Flagrant Good Times of Basketball's Irresistible Force (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993)

  • 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)

  • John Crow, Discrimination, Poverty and the Negro: Arizona in the National Context (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1968)

  • Dennis Greenberger, Gene McGivern, Dennis Green, and Nicholas Copper-Lewter, Dennis Green: No Room for Crybabies (Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 1997)

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

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

  • Bradford Luckingham, Minorities in Phoenix: A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992 (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1994)

  • Matthew Whitaker, Race Work: The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Urban West (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2005)

• California

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

  • Marcus Allen and Carlton Stowers, Marcus (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997)

  • Robert L. Allen, The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in U.S. Naval History (Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1989)

  • Tomás Almaguer. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

• E. Frederick Anderson, The Development of Leadership and Organization Building in the Black Community of Los Angeles from 1900 through World War II (Saratoga, CA: Century Twenty One Publishing, 1980)

• Bettina Aptheker, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990)

• Lauren Araiza, To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)

• Harriett Arnold, Antioch, A Place of Christians: Chronicles of An African-American Church 1893-1993 (San Mateo, CA: Western Book Journal Press, 1993)

• Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad, Days of Grace: A Memoir (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993)

• Arthur Ashe and Frank Deford, Arthur Ashe: Portrait in Motion (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993)

• Mark Baldassare (ed.), The Los Angeles Riots: Lessons for the Urban Future (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994)

• 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)

• William Barlow and Peter Shapiro, An End to Silence: The San Francisco State College Student Movement in the 1960s (New York: Pegasus, 1971)

• Allen Barra, Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age (New York: Crown Archetype, 2013)

• Calvin Barry, Barry Bonds: Life and Career (Kindle) (Calvin Barry, 2012)

• Charlotta A. Bass, Forty Years: Memoirs From the Pages of a Newspaper (Los Angeles: C.A. Bass, 1960)

• Darrin Keith Bastfield, Back in the Day: My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur (New York: Ballantine Books, 2013)

• Robert Bauman, Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East L.A. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008)

• Bijan C. Bayne, Elgin Baylor: The Man Who Changed Basketball (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)

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

• Shana Bernstein, Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)

• John Bloom, Barry Bonds: A Biography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004)

• Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013)

• Lawrence Bobo, Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000)

• Calvin H. Bowers, Realizing the California Dream: The Story of the Black Churches of Christ in Los Angeles (Las Vegas: DocMo Enterprises, 2001)

• Mark Brilliant, The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)

• Homer Broome Jr., LAPD'S Black History, 1886-1976 (1978), Alonzo Smith, Black Employment in the Los Angeles Area, 1938-1948 (Dissertation: University of California, Los Angeles, 1978)

• Albert S. Broussard, Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993)

• Scot Brown, Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization and Black Cultural Nationalism (New York: New York University Press, 2003)

• Jake Brown, Suge Knight: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Death Row Records (Phoenix: Colossus Books, 2011)

• Rufus P. Browning and others, Protest Is Not Enough: The Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics for Equality in Urban Politics (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984)

• Paul Bullock (ed.), Watts, The Aftermath: An Inside View of the Ghetto, By the People of Watts (New York: Grove Press, 1969)

• Lonnie G. Bunch, Black Angelenos: The Afro-American in Los Angeles, 1850-1950 (Los Angeles: California Afro-American Museum, 1988)

• Caron Butler and Steve Springer, Tuff Juice: My Journey from the Streets to the NBA (Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2015),

• Tom Callahan, His Father's Son: Earl and Tiger Woods (New York: Gotham Books, 2010)

• Roy Campanella and Jules Tygiel, It's Good To Be Alive (Boston: Little, Brown, 1995)

• John Caughey and Laree Caughey, School Segregation on Our Doorstep: The Los Angeles Story (Los Angeles: Quail Books, 1966)

• Edward T. Chang and Russell C. Leong (eds.), Los Angeles, Struggles Toward Multiethnic Community: Asian American, African American & Latino Perspectives (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993)

• Wilt Chamberlain, A View from Above (New York: Villard Books, 1991)

• Wilt Chamberlain and David Shaw, Wilt: Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire Who Lives Next Door, An Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1973)

• Robert Cherry, Wilt: Larger Than Life (Chicago: Triumph Books, 2004)

• Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (Boston: South End Press, 1990)

• Jerry Cohen and William S. Murphy, Burn, Baby, Burn: The Los Angeles Race Riot, August, 1965 (New York: Dutton, 1966)

• Keith E. Collins, Black Los Angeles: The Maturing of the Ghetto, 1940-1950 (Saratoga, CA: Century Twenty One Pub., 1975)

• David Colvin, Black Politics after the Civil Rights Movement: Activity and Beliefs in Sacramento, 1970-2000 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2009)

• Robert Conot, Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness (New York: Bantam Books, 1967)

• Lawrence P. Crouchett, Lonnie G. Bunch, and Martha Kendall Winnacker, Visions Toward Tomorrow: The History of the East Bay Afro-American Community, 1852-1977 (Oakland, CA: Northern California Center for Afro-American History and Life, 1989)

• Lawrence P. Crouchett, William Byron Rumford: A Biography, The Life and Public Services of a California Legislator (El Cerrito, CA: Downey Place Pub. House, 1984)

• Eric Cummins, The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994)

• Douglas Henry Daniels, Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 1980)

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

• Christopher Darden and Jess Walter, In Contempt (New York: ReganBooks, 1996)

• Angela Y. Davis, Angela Davis: An Autobiography (New York: Random House, 1988)

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

• Barry Denenberg, Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson (New York: Scholastic, 1990)

• The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation and David Hilliard (eds.), The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2008)

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

• Jacqueline Edmondson, Venus and Serena Williams: A Biography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005)

• Harry Edwards, The Struggle That Must Be: An Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1980)

• 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)

• Richard M. Elman, Ill-at-Ease in Compton (New York: Pantheon Books, 1967)

• J. McFarline Ervin, The Participation of the Negro in the Community Life of Los Angeles (San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1973)

• Delores Fine, When Leadership Fails: Desegregation and Demoralization in the San Francisco Schools (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1986)

• Douglas Flamming, Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005)

• Philip S. Foner, The Black Panthers Speak (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1995)

• Larry Fox, The O. J. Simpson Story: Born To Run (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1974)

• Mike Garcia, Adaptation Strategies in the Los Angeles Black Community, 1883-1919 (Dissertation: University of California, Irvine, 1985)

• Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, Shadow and Light: An Autobiography (Little Rock, AR/Washington, DC: Self-published, 1902)

• Aram Goudsouzian, King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011)

• Simone Green, Time Served: My Days and Nights on Death Row Records (Boston: Golden Girls Publishing, 2015)

• Verna Griffin Long Road Outta Compton: Dr. Dre's Mom on Family, Fame and Terrible Tragedy (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2008)

• Hank Haney, The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods (New York: Crown Archetype, 2012)

• James Earl Hardy, The Day Eazy-E Died (Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2002)

• Donald E. Hausler, Blacks in Oakland: 1852-1987 (Oakland, CA: Donald E. Hausler, 1987)

• Jerry Heller, Ruthless: A Memoir (New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2006)

• Rickey Henderson and John Shea, Off Base: Confessions of a Thief (New York: HarperCollins, 1992)

•  David Hilliard (ed.), The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service, 1967-1980 (New York: Atria, 2007)

• David Hilliard and Lewis Cole, This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1993)

• Chester Himes, If He Hollers, Let Him Go (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1945), and Lonely Crusade (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1947)

• Arthur E. Hippler, Hunter's Point: A Black Ghetto (New York: Basic Books, 1974)

• James S Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (New York: Scribner, 2009)

• Gerald Horne, The Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1995)

• Jacob Hoye and Karolyn Ali (eds.), Tupac (New York: Atria Books, 2006)

• Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon (eds.), Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities (New York: New York University Press, 2010)

• Ice-T, The Ice Opinion (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994)

• and Douglas Century, Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood (New York: One World/Ballantine Books, 2012)

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Peter Knobler, Giant Steps: The Autobiography of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (New York: Bantam Books, 1983)

• Carlton Jackson, Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel (New York: Madison Books, 1993)

• George Jackson, Blood in My Eye (New York: Random House, 1996)

• George Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1994)

• Reggie Jackson, Becoming Mr. October (New York: Doubleday, 2014)

• Reggie Jackson, Reggie: The Autobiography (New York: Villard Books, 1984)

• Alison Rose Jefferson, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2020)

• Robert Lee Johnson, Compton (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012)

• Earvin Magic Johnson and William Novak, My Life (New York: Random House, 1993)

• Charles E. Jones (ed.), The Black Panther Party: Reconsidered (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1998)

• Gregory Jordan, Willie Mays Aikens: Safe at Home (Chicago: Triumph Books, 2012)

• Dikran Karagueuzian, Blow It Up! The Black Student Revolt at San Francisco State and the Emergence of Dr. Hayakawa (Boston: Gambit, 1971)

• Ron Karenga, Ron Karenga: Victim of Watergating (Los Angeles: Pacifica Tape Library, 1978)

• Jesse Kimbrough, Defender of the Angels: A Black Policeman in Old Los Angeles (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969)

• John Klawitter, Headslap: The Life and Times of Deacon Jones (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996)

• Josh Kun and Laura Pulido (eds.), Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013)

• Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008)

• Neil Lanctot, Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011)

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

• Kevin Leonard, The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and World War II (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2006)

• Lisa Leslie and Larry Burnett, Don't Let The Lipstick Fool You (New York, NY: Kensington Publishing, 2009)

• Tobie Levingston, Keith Zimmerman, and Kent Zimmerman, Soul on Bikes: The East Bay Dragons MC and the Black Biker Set (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks, 2013)

• Francis M. Lortie, San Francisco's Black Community, 1870-1890 (San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1973)

• Ronnie Lott, Total Impact (New York: Doubleday, 1991)

• Hugh MacDonald, The Williams Sisters: from the Ghetto to Glory (Edinburgh, Scotland: Argyll Publishing, 2014)

• Larry Martin, The Doctrines and Discipline of the Azusa Street Apostolic Faith Mission of Los Angeles (Joplin, MO: Christian Life Books, 2000)

• Willie Mays and Lou Sahadi, Say Hey: The Autobiography of Willie Mays (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988)

• 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)

• Joel McIver, Ice Cube: Attitude (London: Sanctuary, 2012)

• Carol Lynn McKibben, Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011)

• William McSweeny, Go Up for Glory Bill Russell (New York Coward-McCann, 1966)

• Tayannah Lee McQuillar and Fred L. Johnson, Tupac Shakur: The Life and Times of an American Icon (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010)

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

• Paul T. Miller, The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights: African Americans in San Francisco, 1945-1975 (New York: Routledge, 2010)

• Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000)

• Joe Morgan and David Falkner, Joe Morgan: A Life in Baseball (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1993)

• Donna Jean Murch, Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

• Alondra Nelson, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013)

• Murry R. Nelson, Bill Russell: A Biography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005)

• Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973)

• Huey P. Newton, War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America (New York: Harlem River Press, 2000)

• Shaquille O'Neal, Shaq Uncut: My Story (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011)

• 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.

• Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)

• Oakland Museum of California. Picture This: California Perspectives on American History. http://museumca.org/picturethis/

• Terrell Owens and Jason Rosenhaus, T.O. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006)

• Terrell Owens and Stephen Singular, Catch This!: Going Deep with the NFL's Sharpest Weapon (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004)

• Jeff Pearlman, Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the making of an Antihero (New York: HarperCollins, 2009)

• Dayn Perry, Reggie Jackson: The Life and Thunderous Career of Baseball's Mr. October (New York: William Morrow, 2011)

• Laura Pulido, Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)

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

• Stormey Ramdhan, My Life with the Knight (Savage, MD: La' Femme Fatale' Productions, 2014)

• Arnold Rampersad, Jackie Robinson: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 1998)

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

• Mary Ellen Bell Ray, The City of Watts, California; 1907 to 1926 (Los Angeles, CA: Rising Pub., 1985)

• Chris Rhomberg, No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004)

• Jerry Rice and Brian Curtis, Go Long!: My Journey Beyond the Game and the Fame (New York: Ballantine Books, 2008)

• Jerry Rice and Michael Silver, Rice (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996)

• James Richardson, Willie Brown: A Biography (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996)

• Ronin Ro, Dr. Dre: The Biography (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007)

• Randy Roberts, Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era Of White Hopes (New York: Free Press, 1985)

• Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson (New York, Putnam, 1972)

• Harris Rosen, N.W.A—The Aftermath: Exclusive Interviews with Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Jerry Heller, Yella & Westside Connection (Toronto: Peace! Carving, 2015)

• 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)

• Herbert G. Ruffin II, Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014)

• Theresa Runstedtler, Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013)

• Bill Russell, Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man (New York: Random House, 1980)

• Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996)

• S. Leigh Savidge, Welcome to Death Row: The Uncensored History of the Rise & Fall of Death Row Records in the Words of Those Who Were There (Los Angeles: Xenon Press, 2015)

• Martin Schiesl and Mark M. Dodge (eds.), City of Promise: Race and Historical Change in Los Angeles (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2006)

• Cathy Scott, The Killing of Tupac Shakur (Las Vegas: Huntington Press, 2002)

• Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage (New York: Times Books, 1977)

• Bobby Seale, Seize the Time (New York: Random House, 1968)

• Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003)

• Dave Sheinin, RG3: The Promise (New York: Blue Rider Press, 2013)

• Tupac Shakur, The Rose that Grew from Concrete (New York: Pocket Books, 2009)

• Josh Sides, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003)

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

• Tommie Smith and David Steele, Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007)

• Alexander J. Somerville, Man of Color: An Autobiography (Los Angeles: L.L. Morrison 1949)

• Raphael J. Sonenshein, Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles (Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1992)

• Felicia St. Jean and Jewell Caples, My Blood My Sweat My Tears (Detroit: Felicia St. Jean and Jewell Caples, 2015)

• Richard Steins, Arthur Ashe: A Biography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005)

• John Strege, Tiger: A Biography of Tiger Woods (New York: Broadway Books, 1998)

• Woody Strode and Sam Young, Goal Dust: An Autobiography by Woody Strode (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1990)

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