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Northern Plains States

Books, Articles, Chapters, Editorials, Multimedia, Dissertations and Theses

Kansas

  • Janet Bruce, The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1986)

  • 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)

  • Charles E. Coulter, Take Up the Black Man's Burden: Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939 (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006)

  • Thomas C. Cox, Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865-1915 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982)

  • Stanley Crouch, Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (New York: HarperCollins, 2014)

  • Phil S. Dixon, Wilber "Bullet" Rogan and the Kansas City Monarchs (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2010)

  • Dennis Domer and Barbara Watkins Domer, Embattled Lawrence: Conflict & Community (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Continuing Education, 2001)

  • Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix, Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop—A History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)

  • Gretchen Cassel Eick, Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001)

  • Delia C. Gillis, Kansas City (MO) (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007)

  • Kevin Fox Gotham, Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, Second Edition: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2010 (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2014)

  • Susan G. Greenbaum, The Afro-American Community in Kansas City, Kansas: A History (Kansas City, KS: The City, 1982)

  • G. S. Griffin, Racism in Kansas City: A Short History (Traverse City, MI: Chandler Lake Books, 2015)

  • Leslie A. Heaphy (Ed.), Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2007)

  • Larry Lester, Baseball's First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014)

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

  • Rusty L. Monhollon, This Is America?: The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas (New York: Palgrave, 2002)

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

  • Nathan W. Pearson, Goin' to Kansas City (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994)

  • Sherry Lamb Schirmer, A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960 (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002)

  • Kim Cary Warren, The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

 

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)

  • Bob Gibson and Lonnie Wheeler, Stranger to the Game: The Autobiography of Bob Gibson (New York: Viking, 1994)

 

North Dakota

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South Dakota

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

  • Betti Van Epps-Taylor, Forgotten Lives: African Americans in South Dakota (Pierre, SD: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2008)

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