"The Library" by Jacob Lawrence from the NMAA
Books and Manuscripts
DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Chicago: A.C. McClurg. 1903.
Frazier, Franklin. The Negro Church in America. New York: Schocken Books, 1964.
Haygood, Atticus G. "The Negro in the South," Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South 19 (1891): 300-315.
Wilmore Gayraud S. Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Examination of the Black Experience in Religion. Garden City: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1973.
Woodson, Carter G. The History of the Negro Church. Washington: Associated Publishers, 1921.
Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.
Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Random House, 1974.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Letter from the Birmingham Jail
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have A Dream"
Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Sernett, Milton C. Black Religion and American Evangelicalism: White Protestants, Plantation Missions, and the Flowering of Negro Christianity, 1787-1865. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1975.
Peterson, Thomas V. Ham and Japheth: The Mythic World of Whites in the Antebellum South. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1978.
Purifoy, Lewis M. "The Southern Methodist Church and the Proslavery Argument." Journal of Southern History 32 (1966): 325-41.
Smith, H. Shelton, In His Image But...": Racism in Southern Religion, 1780-1910. Durham: Duke University Press, 1972.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Washington, Booker, T., Up From Slavery
Archival Materials:
Martin Luther King Papers, Stanford University
Manuscript Resources relating to Afro-American Life in Virginia
"The Emancipation Proclaimation"
The Federal Writers Project (WPA) Oral History Project