African Americans in Indiana
Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana
Ronald L. Baker
Lives of former slaves in their own words, published for the first time.
cloth 273 pp. 2000/ISBN 0-253-33803-4/$29.95
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Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to be the World's Fastest Human Being
Todd Balf
Major is the gripping story of a superstar nobody saw coming--a classic underdog, aided by an unlikely crew: a disgraced fight promoter, a broken ex-racer, and a poor upstate girl from New York who wanted to be a queen. It is also the account of a fierce rivalry that would become an archetypal tale of white versus black in the 20th century. Most of all, it is the tale of our nation's first black sports celebrity-- a man who transcended the handicaps of race at the turn of the century to reach the stratosphere of fame.
cloth 306 pp. 2008/ISBN 978-0-307-23658-6/$24.00
Order No. 2684
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America
Fergus M. Bordewich
Bound for Canaan tells the stories of men and women like David Ruggles, who invented the black underground in New York City; bold Quakers like Isaac Hopper and Levi Coffin, who risked their lives to build the Underground Railroad; and the inimitable Harriet Tubman. Interweaving thrilling personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, Bound for Canaan shows how the Underground Railroad gave birth to this country’s first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change.
cloth 560 pp. 2005/ISBN 0-06-052430-8/$27.95
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The Role of Free Blacks in Indiana's Underground Railroad
Maxine F. Brown
The case of Floyd, Harrison, and Washington Counties.
paper 23 pp. $5.00 (no additional discount)
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"Bury Me in a Free Land": The Abolitionist Movement in Indiana, 1816-1865
Gwendolyn J. Crenshaw
Catalog written for a 1986 exhibit includes documents and articles covering colonization, underground railroad, etc.
paper 69 pp. reprint 1993 (1986)/ISBN 1-885323-48-4/$6.25
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Southeastern Indiana's Underground Railroad Routes and Operations
Diane Perrine Coon
Details Underground Railroad activity with photographs, maps, and reminiscences in the counties of Southeastern Indiana.
paper 325 pp. 2001/$5.00 (no additional discount)
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Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892
Frances Smith Foster
Insightful literary analysis and historical investigation of a wide range of literature by African-American women prior to the 20th-century.
paper 206 pp. 1993/ISBN 0-253-20786-X/$13.95
Order No. 2132
Gone But Not Forgotten
O. James Fox and Wilma L.Gibbs
Featured are black-and-white photos and poems of O. James Fox. This book presents a dramatic look at the history of Indianapolis's black community.
paper 53 pp. 2000/ISBN 0-87195146-0/$10.95
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Indiana's African American Heritage: Essays from Black History News Notes
Wilma L. Gibbs, ed.
Topics include the church, education, cultural institutions, newspapers, women's history, the history of communities, biographies, and sources.
cloth 243 pp. 1993/ISBN 0-87195-098-7/$27.95
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paper 243 pp. 1993/ISBN 0-87195-099-5/$14.95
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Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping
Kenneth W. Goings
Examination of the historical forces behind the creation, distribution, and consumption of black collectibles and memorabilia.
paper 123 pp. 1994/ISBN 0-253-32892-7/$36.95
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paper 123 pp. 1994/ISBN 0-253-20881-5/$17.95
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For Gold and Glory: Charlie Wiggins and the African-American Racing Car Circuit
Todd Gould
The never-before-told story of "the Negro Speed King" and the African-American racing car circuit.
cloth 212 pp. 2002/ISBN 0-253-34133-7/ $27.95
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paper/$19.95
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Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley
Keith P. Griffler
In turbulent antebellum America, the Ohio River was both a river of slavery and a river of freedom. The Ohio was a crucial conduit for the trade that linked farmers and merchants of the Northwest to the slave plantations of the South, and it also carried African American men, women, and children caught up in the slave trade downriver to Cotton Belt markets.
cloth 206 pp. 2004/ISBN 0-8131-2298-8/$35.00
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Black Women in America
2 vol. set
Darlene Clark Hine, et al., ed.
A gold mine of information on the leadership, courage, perseverance, and creativity of African-American women with over 450 images.
paper 764/808 pp. 1994/ISBN 0-253-32774-1/$49.95
Order No. 2036
The Black Women in the Middle West Project: A Comprehensive Resource Guide, Illinois and Indiana
Darlene Clark Hine
This final report contains historical essays, oral histories, biographical sketches, and descriptions of document collections gathered by this project, which was headquartered at Purdue University.
paper 238 pp. 1986/ISBN 1-885323-47-6/$6.75
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Africanisms in American Culture
Joseph E. Holloway, ed.
New interpretations of the impact of African origins on North American history and culture presented in ten scholarly essays.
cloth 249 pp. 1991/ISBN 0-253-32839-X/$39.95
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paper 249 pp. 1990/ISBN 0-253-20686-3/$14.95
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Underground Railroad
Hurley C. Goodall
The invisible road to freedom through Indiana as recorded by the Works Progress Administration Writers Project.
paper 341 pp. 2001/$5.00 (no additional discount)
Order No. 6094
Southeast Indiana Trails to Freedom: Underground Railroad Driving Tours
Indiana Underground Railroad Coalition in cooperation with the Indiana Office of Tourism Development through the Lt. Governor's Quality of Place Initiative
Over a century and a half ago the rivers, forests, small towns, scenic rolling hills, and farmlands were the setting for a growing challenge to slavery in the United States. Hundreds of fugitive slaves crossed the Ohio River and made their way through this land toward freedom. Numerous black and white residents of Southeast Indiana assisted their movements in what became known as the Underground Railroad. The routes trveled by the runaway slaves and the locations of the safe houses that hid them from danger are all but invisible to us now. Learning about the people and places that constituted Southeast Indiana's trails to freedom, however, will help you "see" the Underground Railroad.
paper 57 pp. 2006/$5.00 (no additional discount)
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African Experience in Literature and Ideology
Abiola Irele
Sophisticated study of African literature, and a fine collection of essays that is both penetrative and clear.
paper 217 pp. 1990/ISBN 0-253-20569-7/$14.95
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Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865
Ryan P. Jordan
This book explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried to end slavery through peaceful protest. Because the pacifist and anti-slavery beliefs of the Society of Friends appeared closely to approximate the agenda of the American Anti-Slavery Society, many abolitionists believed that the Quakers would rally behind their cause. Their opponents meanwhile feared that the Quakers might support a movement considered by many to be seditious. Both were mistaken.
cloth 175 pp. 2007/ISBN 978-0-253-34860-9/$29.95
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Taliaferro: Breaking Barriers from the NFL Draft to the Ivory Tower
Dawn Knight, with a foreword by Tony Dungy
To prepare this book, Dawn Knight combed NCAA and NFL records and conducted numerous interviews with George Taliaferro, his family, former teammates, and Colts coach Tony Dungy. More than a biography of one individual, this is a story of historic achievement and inspiration.
cloth 193 pp. 2007/ISBN 978-0-253-34931-6/$24.95
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Walkin' the Wabash
Marlene K. Lu
An exploration into the Underground Railroad in west central Indiana.
paper 134 pp./$5.00 (no additional discount)
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Concerning Underground Railroad Activity in Southwestern Indiana
Randy Mills, et. al
This report locates Underground Railroad sites in southwestern Indiana and provides information about the people involved and locations of activities.
paper 34 pp. 2001/$5.00 (no additional discount)
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North Webster: A Photographic History of a Black Community
Ann Morris and Henrietta Ambrose
A black, upper middle-class suburb, begun at the end of the Civil War in St. Louis, provides a look at life through more than 140 period photographs from family albums and collections.
cloth 192 pp. 1993/ISBN 0-253-33895-6/$36.95
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paper 192 pp. 1993/ISBN 0-253-28601-8/$24.95
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A Good Night for Freedom
Barbara Olenyik Morrow
Two runaway slaves take refuge at Katy and Levi Coffin's home - a stop on the underground railroad. Based on historical events, this powerful story reveals the courage it took for people to run for freedom, and for one young girl to help them. Beautifully illustrated.
cloth 32 pp. 2004/ISBN 0-8234-1709-3/$16.95
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The Underground Railroad and the Antislavery Movement in Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana
Angela M. Quinn
"The antebellum story of African Americans in Fort Wayne is as grand and complex as the story of the city itself."
paper (275) pp. 2001/$5.00 (no additional discount)
Order No. 6098
Underground Railroad Research in Select Indiana Counties
Jeannie Regan-Dinius et al.
Includes many images of documents and places and each chapter concludes with endnotes and a bibliography. The following are the essay titles:
"Federal Court Cases: Holdings at the National Archives, Chicago" by Jeannie Regan-Dinius
"Gateway to Freedom: New Albany-Floyd County, Indiana" by Pam Peters
"Grant County" by Students at Marion High School
"Huntington and Wabash Counties" by Jeannie Regan-Diniius
"Kankakee & St. Joseph river Valleys of Indiana" by Terry Goldsworthy
paper 122 pp. 2004/$5.00 (no additional discount)
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Five Plays by Langston Hughes
Webster Smalley, ed.
Harlem life, pictured as fresh today as it was when these plays were first written.
paper 258 pp. 1968/0-253-20121-7/$14.95
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Oral History of African Americans in Grant County
Barbara J. Stevenson
"There's a story that goes like this..." So begins Delores Betts, one of the dozens of people whose memories and recollections of African-American life in Grant County over the past century and a half are preserved within what may well be the most intriguing and inspiring history you will ever read.
paper 128 pp. ISBN 0-7385-0047-X/$18.99
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Interpretive Stories Associated with the Underground Railroad in the Indianapolis Area
Dona Stokes-Lucas et al.
Several churches and other sites were visited and their Underground Railroad activities researched.
paper 50 pp. 2001/$5.00 (no additional discount)
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A Shared Heritage: Art by Four African Americans
William E. Taylor and Harriet G. Warkel, eds.
Work ranging from impressionism and social realism to cubism and abstract expressionism.
cloth 195 pp. 1996/ISBN 0-936260-62-9/$49.95
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paper 195 pp. 1996/ISBN 0-9336260-629/$29.95
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Sister of the Solid Rock: Edna Mae Barnes Martin and the East Side Christian Center
Wilma Rugh Taylor
cloth 198 pp. 2002/ISBN 0-87195-161-4/$24.95
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The Negro in Indiana before 1900: A Study of a Minority
Emma Lou Thornbrough
Indiana Historical Collections 37
Pioneering work traces the history of African Americans in a northern state from their first arrival as slaves of 18th-century French traders through the end of the 19th century.
Reissued by Indiana University Press.
cloth 412 pp. 1993/ISBN 0-253-35989-9/$31.95
Order No. 2102
Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century
Emma Lou Thornbrough
Chronicles the growth, both in numbers and in power, of African Americans in a northern state that was notable for its antiblack tradition.
cloth 235 pp. 2000/ISBN 0-253-33799-2/$27.95
Order No. 2265
River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley
Joe William Trotter, Jr.
Cloth 200 pp. 1998/ISBN 0-8131-2065-9/$32.50
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paper 200 pp. 1998/ISBN 0-8131-0950-7/$25.00
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Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900
Stephen Vincent
Captures the history of two African American and mixed-race farming communities formed on the Indiana frontier in the 1830s and analyzes the area through the late nineteenth-century.
cloth 224 pp. 1999/ISBN 0-253-33577-9/$35.00
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paper 224 pp. 1999/ISBN 0-253-21331-2/$19,95
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All We Had Was Each Other: The Black Community of Madison, Indiana
Don Wallace, comp.
Personal histories of twenty black residents of this small Ohio River town which, although located in the North, had its cultural roots in the South, and for most of the 20th century was strictly segregated.
cloth 136 pp. 1998/ISBN 0-253-33428-4/$24.95
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The Senate Avenue YMCA for African American Men and Boys: Indianapolis, Indiana 1913 - 1959
Stanley Warren, Ed.D.
The character of a city is shaped by its institutions and its people. As a local institution, the Senate Avenue YMCA was a fixture in Indianapolis for nearly fifty years. During that time, it was at the center of activity in the African American community with its cradle-to-the-grave approach.
The Senate Avenue YMCA was involved in both political and social issues that had an impact on the black community. Acting as a service center and recruiting station during World War I and World War II and as a forum for famous individuals from around the country such as Booker T. Washington, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Herman B. Wells, Langston Hughes, and many more, the Senate Avenue YMCA became a significant part of the fabric that made the YMCA such an important institution in the city.
There are many other examples of the positive influence of the Senate Avenue YMCA such as the strong reaction against the 1926 proposed restrictive covenant that would determine where blacks could live in the city and the 1931 support for the local Anti-Lynching bill.
The building may be gone, but the spirit of the Senate Avenue YMCA will be with us forever.
cloth 144 pp. ISBN 1-57864-341-4 / $29.95
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Songs of Freedom: Music from Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage
Produced by Solid Light, Inc. for the Carnegie Center for Art History, Inc.
"Songs of Freedom was created to complement the permanent exhibit Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad at the Carnegie Center for Art History in New Albany, Indiana."
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" (play)
"Steal Away" (play)
"Follow the Drinking Gourd" (play)
"Wade in the Water" (play)
"O, Canaan" (play)
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (play)
"Go Down Moses" (play)
"This Train is Bound for Glory" (play)
"Down by the River" (play)
compact disc $18.99
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Issues of The Indiana Historian - African-Americans in Indiana
paper/ISSN 1071-3301/$1.00 (1-19 copies); $.30 (20 or more copies - no additional discount)
Indiana Emigrants to Liberia
The movement in Indiana and the country around the time of the Civil War to settle black Americans in Africa.
16 pp. December 1999/Order No. 7049
Black Settlers in Indiana
Focuses on settlements of free blacks; emphasis on the Roberts Settlement in early Hamilton County in central Indiana.
12 pp. 1993/Order No. 7015
Indiana's 28th Regiment: Black Soldiers for the Union
Indiana's 28th Regiment: Black Soldiers for the Union
Regimental Chaplain Garland H. White's letters to the Christian Recorder about this only black regiment organized in Indiana provided eyewitness accounts of the service of the 28th.
16 pp. 1994/Order No. 7023
Indiana in the Spanish-American War
Indiana in the Spanish-American War
The home front experience, Indiana volunteers, and the dilemma of black citizens and soldiers.
16 pp. 1998/Order No. 7045
"We don't intend to fall in anymore at the end of the parade."
"We don't intend to fall in anymore at the end of the parade."
A history of blacks in Evansville from settlement to the 1940s.
16 pp. 1995/Order No. 7030
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