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

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)

 

Nevada

  • Earnest N. Bracey, The Moulin Rouge and Black Rights in Las Vegas: A History of the First Racially Integrated Hotel-Casino (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2009)

  •  Jamie Coughtry (ed.), Woodrow Wilson: Race, Community, and Politics in Las Vegas, 1940s-1980s (Reno, NV: University of Nevada Oral History Program, 1990)

  • Jamie Coughtry and Helen M. Blue (eds.), Clarence Ray: Black Politics and Gaming in Las Vegas, 1920s-1980s (Reno, NV: University of Nevada Oral History Program, 1991)

  • Jamie Coughtry and R.T. King (eds.), Civil Rights Efforts in Las Vegas: 1940s-1980s (University of Nevada Las Vegas, 1988)

  •  Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005)

 

New Mexico

  • Laurie Champion and Bruce A. Glasrud, Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2008)

  • Tekla Ali Johnson, Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2012)

  • Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell (eds.), Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008)

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

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

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Oklahoma

  • Annie Heloise Abel, The Slaveholding Indians (Cleveland: A.H. Clark, 1915)

  • Anita G. Arnold, Oklahoma City Music: Deep Deuce and Beyond (Chicago : Arcadia Publishing, 2010)

  • Alfred L. Brophy, Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)

  • Arthur T. Burton, Black, Red and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-1907 (Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1991)

  • David A. Chang, The Color of Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

  • Scott Ellsworth, Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982)

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

  • Robert Elliott Flickinger, The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy (Pittsburgh, PA: Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen, 1914)

  • Buck Colbert Franklin, The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921: An Eyewitness Account (Independently published, 2022)

  • 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)

  • Eddie Faye Gates, They Came Searching: How Blacks Sought the Promised Land in Tulsa (Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1997)

  • Jonathan D. Greenberg, Staking a Claim: Jake Simmons, Jr., and the Making of An African American Oil Dynasty (New York: Atheneum, 1990)

  • Jeff Guinn, Our Land Before We Die: The Proud Story of the Seminole Negro (New York: J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002)

  • George Henderson, Race and the University: A Memoir (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010)

  • James S. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002)

  • Hannibal B. Johnson, Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District (Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1998)

  • Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977)

  • ___. The Cherokee Freedmen: From Emancipation to American Citizenship (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978)

  • ___. The Chickasaw Freedmen: A People Without a Country (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980)

  • Clara Luper, Behold the Walls (Oklahoma City, OK: Jim Wire, 1979)

  • Tim Madigan, The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2001)

  • Katja May, African Americans and Native Americans in the Cherokee and Creek Nations, 1830s-1920s: Collision and Collusion (New York: Garland Publishing, 1996)

  • Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland (eds.), Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006)

  • Celia Naylor, African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008)

  • Zella J. Black Patterson, Langston University: A History (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma P

  • George P. Rawick, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography: The Oklahoma Narratives (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983)

  • Claudio Saunt, Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of the American Family (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)

  • William W. Savage, Singing Cowboys and All That Jazz: A Short History of Popular Music in Oklahoma (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983)

  • Circe Dawn Sturm, Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002)

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

  • Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley, A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education: Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014)

  • Murray R. Wicket, Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1865-1907 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2000)

 

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Texas

  • Dean Alger, The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music: The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2014)

  • Gregg Andrews, Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011)

  • J. Alston Atkins, The Texas Negro and His Political Rights: A History of the Fight of the Negro to Enter the Democratic Primaries of Texas (Houston: Webster Pub. Co., 1932)

  • T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker, eds., Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.

  • 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)

  • Howard Beeth and Cary D. Wintz (eds.), Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1992)

  • Brian D. Behnken, Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011)

  • ___. The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2011)

  • Sam Blair, Earl Campbell: The Driving Force (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1980)

  • Ira Bryant, Texas Southern University: Its Antecedents, Political Origin and Future (Houston: Bryant, 1972)

  • Anita R. Bunkley, Emily, The Yellow Rose (Rinard, IL: Rinard Publishing, 2011)

  • Conrey Bryson, Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and the White Primary (El Paso, TX: Texas Western Press, 1974)

  • Robert D. Bullard, Invisible Houston: The Black Experience in Boom and Bust (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1987)

  • Earl Campbell and John Ruane, The Earl Campbell Story: A Football Great's Battle with Panic Disorder (Toronto: ECW Press, 1999)

  • Randolph B. Campbell. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

  • Thomas R. Cole, No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997)

  • Maceo C. Dailey, Jr. and Kristine Navarro (eds.), Wheresoever My People Chance to Dwell: Oral Interviews with African American Women of El Paso (Baltimore: Imprint Edition, 2000)

  • Tony Dorsett and Harvey Frommer, Running Tough: Memoirs of A Football Maverick (New York: Doubleday, 1989)

  • Marvin Dulavey, Black Presence in Dallas: A History of Black Political Activism in Dallas from 1936-1986 (Dallas: Museum of African-American Life and Culture, 1987)

  • Rob Fink, Playing in Shadows: Texas and Negro League Baseball (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2010)

  • Neil Foley, Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010)

  • Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997)

  • Jacob Fontaine III and Gene Burd, Jacob Fontaine: From Slavery to the Greatness of the Pulpit, the Press and Public Service (Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1983)

  • George Foreman, By George: The Autobiography of George Foreman (New York: Villard Books, 1995)

  • Sal Fradella, Jack Johnson: They Didn't Know It Could Be Done (Kindle) (Wellesley, MA: Branden Books, 2014)

  • Bruce A. Glasrud (ed.), The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2007)

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

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

  • 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)

  • Robert M. Goldman, One Man Out: Curt Flood versus Baseball (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008)

  • Alan B. Govenar and Jay F. Brakefield, Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1998)

  • Alan B. Govenar and Jay F. Brakefield, Deep Ellum: The Other Side of Dallas (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2013)

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  • Don Haskins and Daniel Wetzel, Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds and Changed America Forever (New York: Hyperion, 2005)

  • Bob Hayes and Robert Pack, Run, Bullet, Run: The Rise, Fall, and Recovery of Bob Hayes (New York: Harper & Row, 1990)

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

  • Thomas Hollywood Henderson and Peter Knobler, Out of Control Confessions of an NFL Casualty (New York: Putnam, 1987)

  • Thomas Henderson and Frank Luksa, In Control: The Rebirth of an NFL Legend (United States: Thomas Henderson Pub., 2004)

  • Brittney Griner and Sue Hovey, In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court (New York: It Books, 2015)

  • Jack Johnson, My Life and Battles (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009)

  • Lillian B. Jones, Five Generations Hence (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1916)

  • Brad “Scarface” Jordan and Benjamin Meadows Ingram, Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap (New York: HarperCollins, 2015)

  • William Henry Kellar, Make Haste Slowly: Moderates, Conservatives and School Desegregation in Houston (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1999)

  • Paul D. Lack. The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835-1836. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1995.

  • Robyn Duff Ladino, Desegregating Texas Schools: Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1996)

  • Gary M. Lavergne, Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2010)

  • Harvey Martin, Texas Thunder: My Eleven Years with the Dallas Cowboys (New York: Rawson Associates, 1985)

  • Kenneth Mason, Paternal Community: African Americans and Race Relations in San Antonio, Texas, 1867-1937 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998)

  • Ed McCoyd, To Live and Dream: The Incredible Story of George Foreman (New York: New Street Publishing, 1997)

  • Jason J. McDonald, Racial Dynamics in Early Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012)

  • Michelle M. Mears, And Grace Will Lead Me Home: African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas, 1865 to 1928 (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2009)

  • Paddy Joe Miller, The Tyler Rose: The Earl Campbell Story (Spring, TX: Schuromil Productions, 1997)

  • 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)

  • Betty Lou Phillips, Earl Campbell: Houston Oiler Superstar (New York: D. McKay Co., 1979)

  • Merline Pitre, In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957 (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1999)

  • Bernadette Pruitt, The Other Great Migration: The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2013)

  • George P. Rawick, ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography: The Texas Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.

  • 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)

  • Steve Richardson, Ricky Williams: Dreadlocks to Ditka (Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 2012)

  • Ray Sanchez, Basketball's Biggest Upset: Texas Western Changed The Sport With A Win Over Kentucky In 1966 (New York: Authors Choice Press, 2005)

  • Deion Sanders, Power, Money and Sex (Nashville, TN: Word Publishing, 1999)

  • Jim Schutze, The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1986)

  • Amilcar Shabazz, Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004)

  • Emmitt Smith and Steve Delsohn, The Emmitt Zone (New York: Crown Publishers, 1994)

  • Brad Snyder, A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports (New York: Viking, 2007)

  • Tyina L. Steptoe, Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016)

  • Everson Walls, Kevin B. Blackistone, and Frank Deford, A Gift for Ron: Friendship and Sacrifice On and Off the Gridiron (Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2009)

  • Geoffrey C. Ward, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (New York: A.A. Knopf, 2006)

  • Bernice Love Wiggins, Tuneful Tales (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2002)

  • Jerelyne Castleberry Williams, The Brackenridge Colored School: A Legacy of Empowerment through Agency and Cultural Capital Inside An African American Community (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006)

  • Roy H. Williams and Kevin J. Shay, Time Change: An Alternative View of the History of Dallas (Dallas: To Be Publishing, 1991)

  • Anna Victoria Wilson and William E. Segall, Oh, Do I Remember!: Experiences of Teachers During the Desegregation of Austin's Schools, 1964-1971 (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001)

  • William H. Wilson, Hamilton Park: A Planned Community in Dallas (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

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

  • Carey Wintz. Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.

  • George Ruble Woolfolk, Prairie View: A Study in Public Conscience, 1878-1946 (New York: Pageant Press, 1962)

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