Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Revised by Jenny Kaemmerlen, intern, October 2005

Black Women

Books

Albert, Octavia. The House of Bondage, Or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves. New York: Oxford

University Press, 1988. (E444A33A31998)

 
Bell-Scott, Patricia, et al., eds. Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters. 
 Boston:  Beacon Press, 1991. (PS509M6D61991) 
 
Bidelman, Patrick Kay, ed. The Black Women in the Middle West Project: a Comprehensive Resource 
 Guide, Illinois and Indiana: Historical Essays, Oral Histories, Biographical Profiles, and 
 Document Collections. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1986. (E185.915B521986) 
 
Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds: a Calendar for 1984-86. ed. Susan Osborn. New 
 York:  GMG Pub., 1983. (E185.96B5431983) 
 
Black Women in United States History: a Guide to the Series. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub., 1990.
 (E185.86 .B543 1990) 
 
Braxton, Joanne M. Black Women Writing Autobiography: a Tradition within a Tradition. 
 Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. (PS366A35B731989) 
 
Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth. Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America.  
 New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. (PS338N4B761988) 
 
Collected Black Women's Narratives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (E185.96C641988) 
 
Collier-Thomas, Bettye. Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and their Sermons, 1850-
 1979. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1998. (BR563.N4 C64 1998) 
 

Cooper, Anna Julia. A Voice from the South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

(E185.86C5871988)

Crawford, Vicki, and Barbara Woods, et al., eds. Women in the Civil Rights Movement:

Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

(E185.61W831993)

Davis, Marianna W., ed. Contributions of Black Woman To America. Columbia: Kennedy Press Inc.,

1982. (E185.86C5851982)

 
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore. The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson.  ed. Gloria T. Hull. New York: 
 Oxford University Press, 1988. (PS3507U62281988 V1-V3) 
 
Forten, Charlotte L. The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke. ed. Brenda  Stevenson.
 New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (LA2317F67A31988) 

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within The Plantation Household: Black And White Women of the Old

South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. (HQ1438A13F691988)

 
Franklin, Joseph. African: a Photographic Essay on Black women of Ghana & Nigeria. Sebastopol, 
 CA: G.R. Wallingford Books, 1977. (HQ1816F71977) 
 
Friedman, Jean E., et al. Sex, Race, and the Role of Women in the South: Essays. eds. Joanne V. Hawks 
 and Sheila L. Skemp. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1983. (HQ1438A13S491983) 

Gaspar, Barry, and Darlene Clark Hine, eds. More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery In The

Americas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. (HT1049M621996)

 
Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: the Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America.
 New York: Bantam Books, 1985. (E185.86G491985) 

Gutman, Herbert. The Black Family in Slavery And Freedom, 1750-1925.

New York: Vintage Book, 1976. (E185.86G771977)

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes toward Black Women, 1880-1920.

Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1990. (E185.86.B5431990v.11)

Gwin, Minrose. Black And White Women of The Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American

Literature. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. (PS261G851985)

 
Handy, D. Antoinette. Black Women in American Bands & Orchestras. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow 
 Press, 1998. (ML82 .H36 1998)  

Hare, Julia and Nathan. Crisis in Black Sexual Politics. San Francisco: Black Think Tank, 1989.

(E185.86C75189)

Harley, Sharon, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images.

Port Washington: National University Publications, 1978. (E185.86A34)

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins. Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper. ed. Maryemma Graham.
 New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (PS1799H7A171988) 
 
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted. New York: Oxford University Press, 
 1988. (PS1799H7I61988) 

Hawks, Joanne V., and Sheila L. Skemp, eds. Sex, Race, And The Role Of Women In The South.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1983. (HQ143A13S491983)

 
Higginbotham, Elizabeth. Employment for Professional Black Women in the Twentieth Century.
 Memphis, TN: Center for Research on Women, Memphis State University, 1985.
 (HD6057.5U5H541985) 
 
Higginbotham, Elizabeth. Work and Survival for Black Women. Memphis, TN: Center for Research 
 on Women, Memphis State University, 1984. (HD6057.5U5H551984) 
 
Hill, Ruth Edmonds, ed. The Black Women Oral History Project: from the Arthur and Elizabeth 
 Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College. Westport, 
 CT: Meckler, 1990. (E185.86B5451991 V1-V10) 

Hill, Ruth Edmonds, and Patricia Miller King, eds. Guide to The Transcripts Of The Black Woman

Oral History Project. Westport: Meckler, 1991. (E185.86G741991)

 
Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women in American History: from Colonial Times through the 
 Nineteenth Century.  Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1990. (E185.86B5431990v1 V1-V4) 
 
Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women in American History: the Twentieth Century. Brooklyn:  Carlson 
 Pub., 1990. (E185.86B5431990v5 V5- V8) 
 
Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women's History: Theory and Practice. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1990. 
 (E185.86B5431990v9-V10) 

Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women In America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub.

1993. (E185.86B5421993)

 
Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing 
 Profession, 1890-1950.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. (RT83.5H561989) 

Hine, Darlene Clark. Hine Sight: Black Women And The Reconstruction Of American History.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. (E185.86H671997)

Hine, Darlene Clark. A Shining Thread of Hope: The History Of Black Women In America.

New York: Broadway Books, 1998. (E185.86H681998)

 
Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction. ed. Hallie Q. Brown. New York: Oxford 
 University Press, 1988. (E185.96H651988) 

Hopkins, Pauline E. Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative Of Negro Life North and South.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (PS1999H4226C1988)

 
Hopkins, Pauline E. The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins. New York: Oxford University Press, 
 1988. (PS1999H4226A61988) 
 

Horry, Harriot Pinckney. A Colonial Plantation Cookbook: The Receipt Book of Harriot Picnkey

Horry, 1770. Richard J. Hooker, ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1984.

(TX703H671984)

 
Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
 (E444J17A31988) 
 

Janiewski, Dolores E. Subversive Sisterhood: Black Women and Unions In The Southern Tobacco

Industry. Memphis: Memphis State University, 1984. (HD8039T6J361984)

 
Johnson, A. E. The Hazeley family. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (PS2134J515H391988) 

Jones, Adrienne Lash. Jane Edna Hunter: A Case Study Of Black Leadership, 1910-1950.

Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1990. (E185.86B5431990v12)

 
Jones, Beverly Washington. Quest for Equality: the Life and Writings of Mary Eliza Church Terrell, 
1863-1954. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1990. (E185.86B5431990v13) 
 
Jones, Gayl. Corregidora. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. (PS3560O483C61986)  
 
Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from 
 Slavery to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. (HD6057.5U5J661986) 
 
Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. 
 New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (E457.15K261988) 
 
Kelley, Emma Dunham. Four Girls at Cottage City. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. 
 (PS2159K13F61988) 
 
Kelley, Emma Dunham. Megda. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (PS2159K13M441988) 
 

Landers, Jane. Black Society in Spanish Florida. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

(F320.N4 L36 1999)

 
Lanker, Brian. I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America. New York: 
 Stewart, Tabori & Chang: Distributed in the U.S. by Workman Pub., 1989. 
 (E185.86L3551989) 

Laue, James H. Direct Action and Desegregation, 1960-1962: Toward A Theory Of The

Rationalization of Protest. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (E185.61L351989)

Lavison, Cornelious Wilson, ed. Silvia DuBois: A Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and

Gand Her Fredom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (E444D83L371988)

Lebsock, Suzanne. The Free Women of Petersburg: Status And Culture In A Southern Town, 1784-

1860. New York: Norton, 1984. (HQ1423L391984)

Little, Priscilla Cortelyou, and Robert C. Vaughan, eds. A New Perspective: Southern Women’s

Cultural History From The Civil War To Civil Rights. Charlottesville: Virginia

Foundation for the Humanities, 1989. (HQ143A13N481989)

Mann, Susan Archer. Social Change and Sexual Inequality: The Impact Of The Transition From

Slavery To Sharecropping On Black Women. Memphis: Center For Research On Women, 1986. (HD1527S68M361986)

McCary, Carrie Allen. Piece of Time. Goshen, CT: Chicory Blue Press, 1993. (PS356C35249P51993)

 
Morton, Patricia, ed. Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American 
 Past. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. (E443 .D57 1996) 

Mossell, N. F. The Work of the Afro-American Woman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

(E185.86M651988)

 
Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers. New York: Dodd, Mead, 
 1986. (TR139M631986) 

Nelson, Jill. Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience. Chicago: Noble Press, 1993.

(PN4874N295A31993)

Oppenheimer, Martin. The Sit-in Movement of 1960. Martin Luther King, Jr. And The Civil Rights

Movement: 16. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (E185.61O671989)

 
Plato, Ann. Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry. New York: 
 Oxford University Press, 1988. (PS2593P3471988) 

Powers, Bernard. Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885. Fayetteville: University of

Arkansas, 1994. (F279C49N41994)

Ripley, Peter C. Witness For Freedom: African-American Voices On Race, Slavery And

Emancipation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. (E449W841993)

 
Salem, Dorothy C. To better our world : Black women in organized reform, 1890- 1920.
 Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1990. (E185.86B5431990v14) 
 
Seacole, Mary. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands. New York: Oxford University 
 Press, 1988. (DK215S431988) 
 

Sherman, Joan R. Collected Black Women’s Poetry: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century

Black Women Writers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (PS591N4C571988)

Simms, Lois Averetta. Profiles of African-American Females In The Low Country of South

Carolina. Charleston: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, 1992.

(E185.93S7S551992)

 
Six Women's Slave Narratives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (E444S591988) 
 
Slipping through the Cracks: the Status of Black Women. eds. Margaret C. Simms and Julianne 
 Malveaux. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1986. (HQ1154S5481986) 
 
Smith, Amanda. An Autobiography: the Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the 
 Colored Evangelist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (BV3785S56A31988) 
 

Spiritual Narratives . New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (BR1713S651988)

Stetson, Erlene. Black Sister; Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980. Bloomington: Indiana

University Press, 1981. (PS591N4S75)

Stevenson, Brenda, ed. The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke'. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (LA23117F67A31988)

Stoper, Emily. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Growth of Radicalism in a

Civil Rights Organization. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: 17.

Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (E185.61S8761989)

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. Women in Africa and the African Diaspora. Washington, DC: Howard

University Press, 1987. (HQ1781W651987)

 
Thompson, Mildred I. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: an Exploratory Study of an American Black woman, 
 1893-1930.   Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1990. (E185.86B5431990v15) 
 
Tucker, Susan.  Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers 
 in the Segregated South. Baton Rogue: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. 

(HD6072.2U52A1371988)

 
Washington, Mary Helen, ed. Black-eyed Susans: Classic Stories by and About Black Women. 
 Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1975. (PS647A35B431975) 
 
Walker, Alice. In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 
 Publishers, 1973. (PS357A425I51973b)
 
Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego: Harcourt Brace 

Jovanovich, 1983. (PS3573A425Z4671983)

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells. Miriam DeCosta-Willis, ed. Boston:

Beacon Press, 1995. (E185.97W55A31995)

 
Westling, Louise. Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson 
 McCullers, and Flannery O’Connor.  Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1985. 
 (PS374.W6W41985)
 
Wheatley, Phillis. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. ed. John C. Shields. New York: Oxford 
 University Press, 1988. (PS866W51988) 

Williams, Sherley Anne. Dessa Rose. New York: Berkeley Books, 1987. (PS3573145546D41987)

Wilson, Emily Herring. Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South. Philadelphia: Temple

University Press, 1983. (E185.93N6W541983)

Young, Glenell S. The Psychology and Mental Health of Afro-American Women: A Selected

Bibliography. Temple Hills, MD: Afro-Resources, 1984. (E185.86Y691984)

Dissertations

David, Hilda Black. “The African-American Women of Edisto Island: 1850-1920.” Emory University,

DAI, 1990. (HQ1438S6D31989a)

Day, Virginia Kay Young. “ ‘My Family is Me’: Women’s Kin Networks and Social Power in a

Black Sea Island Community (South Carolina).” Rutgers (The State University of New Jersey-

ew Brunswick), DAI, 1986. (E18593S7D391986a)

Derby, Doris Adelaide. “Black Women Basket Makers: A Study of Domestic Economy in Charleston

County, South Carolina.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, DAI, 1980.

(TT879B3D471980a)

Ross, Rosetta E. “The Life and Work of Victoria Way DeLee: A Study of Transformative Ethical Practice.”

Emory University, DAI, 1995. (BT893R6771995a)

Schneider, Barbara Anne. “Resistive Exercise: Strength, Body Compostion, Glucose Tolerance and

Insulin Action in African-American Women.” The Ohio State University, DAI, 1996.

(RA4485N4S361996a)

Schwalm, Leslie Ann. “The Meaning of Freedom: African-American Women and Their Transition

from Slavery to Freedom in Lowcountry South Carolina.” The University of Wisconsin- Madison, DAI, 1991. (E18593S7S3921991a)

Stover, Johnnie M. “Empowerment Through an African-American ‘Mother Tongue’: Four

Nineteenth-Century African-American Women Autobiographers (Women Writers, Harriet

E. Wilson, Harriet A. Jacobs, Elizabeth Keckley, Susie King Taylor).” The Florida State University, DAI, 1997. (PS508N3S761997a)

Weiner, Marli Frances. “Plantation Mistresses and Female Slaves: Gender, Race, and South

Carolina Women.” The University of Rochester, DAI, 1986. (HQ1438S6W451986a)