Compiled by Ingrid Grant, MLS
Collection Development Librarian
March 2017

Introduction:
The purpose of this research guide is to provide researchers, students, and the general public access to the print materials available in the African American Library at the Gregory School. This research guide is divided into 2 sections: Houston and Texas. The Texas section includes people and events that are native to Texas, but not Houston, such as events taking place in Fort Worth or Dallas. Each section is then organized by subject and title of book. The books are arranged on the shelves using the Dewey Decimal System. It’s basically the address of the book on the shelf. This is not a comprehensive listing of all our print materials. Books are continually being added to the collection.
Please see staff for additional assistance.

Houston:
Civil Rights Movement

• Make Haste Slowly: A History of School Desegregation in Houston, Texas (370.19342 K29)
• Negro Politics and the Rise of the Civil Rights Movement in Houston, Texas (323.409764 D252)
• No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston (305.8 C689)
• On Parallel Tracks: A Comparison of the African-American and Latino Civil Rights Movements in Houston (323.119 B419)

History (General history of African Americans in Houston)

• African Americans of Houston (976.41411 G657)
• Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston (976.4141 B627)
• Blacks in Houston (976.4100496073 W794)
• Dixie West: Race, Migration, and the Color Lines in Jim Crow Houston (305.8009764 S837)
• The Ethnic Groups of Houston (976.41 E84)
• For the Advancement of the Race: African-American Migration and Community Building in Houston, 1914-1945 (304.809 P971)
• Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (305.8009764 S837)
• Invisible Houston: The Black Experience in Boom and Bust (305.896 B935)
• The Other Great Migration: The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 (305.896073 P971)
• The Pioneer Families of Houston (976.41 B915)
• The Red Diary: A Chronological History of Black Americans in Houston and Some Neighboring Harris County Communities – 122 Years Later (976.41 J77)

Houston:
Race Issues

• Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas (305.896073 A629)
• The History of Black Police Officers in the Houston Police Department, 1878-1988 (363.208996 W182)
• Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department (363.209764 R845)
• The Houston Riot & Courts-Martial of 1917 (976.41411 H842)
• A Night of Violence: The Houston Riot of 1917 (976.41 H424)
• Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990 (363.23089 W338)

Slavery

• African Americans of Houston (976.41411 G657)
• The Black Crop: Slavery and Slave Trading in 19th Century Texas (976.400496 M478)
• Dixie West: Race, Migration, and the Color Lines in Jim Crow Houston (305.8009764 S837)
• Free Enterprise City: Houston in Political-Economic Perspective (976.41 F288)
• Houston in Chains: Slaves and Free Blacks in the Texas Courts, 1845-1867 (305.896073 R263)

Texas Southern University

• Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas (305.896073 A629)
• Black Art in Houston: The Texas Southern University Experience (707.11 B592)
• Origin and Development of Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas (378.1009 T329)
• TSU Meets the Press: White Newspaper Coverage of a Black University in Houston, Texas, 1947-2006 (071.641 T355)

Texas:
Civil Rights Movement

• African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Anglo Americans and the Desegregation of Texas, 1946-1957 (379.263 H843)
• Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice (344.760798 L399)
• Civil Rights in The Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism (323.4 G993)
• Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas (976.405 L847)
• Racial Dynamics in Early Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas (305.896872 M135)
• Seeking Inalienable Rights: Texans and Their Quests for Justice (323.0973 S451)
• Sunbelt Revolution: The Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South, 1866-2000 (323.097609 S957)
• Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (975.00496 L782)
• Unsolved Civil Rights Murder Cases, 1934-1970 (364.1523089 N565)
• Volma...My Journey: One Man’s Impact on the Civil rights Movement in Austin, Texas (323.0976431 J76)

History (General history of African Americans in Texas)

• African Americans in South Texas History (305.896073 A258)
• Blacks on The Borders: African-Americans’ Transition from Slavery to Freedom in Texas and the Indian Territory, 1836-1907 (973.0496073 K91)
• Free Blacks in Antebellum Texas (305.896073 F853)
• The Freedmen’s Bureau & Black Texans (976.4 C952)
• Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Texas (976.400496 L635)
• A Guide to the History of Texas (976.4 G946)
• A History of Fort Worth in Black & White: 165 Years of African-American Life (305.896073 S464)
• Major Problems in Texas History (976.4 M234)

Women

• African-American Texas Women Writers: 1998-2002 (810.9 AF8)
• Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women’s Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918 (305.4209764 M478)
• Invisible Texans: Women and Minorities in Texas History (305.5600976 I62)
• Texas Through Women’s Eyes: The 20th Century Experience (305.4209764 M478)
• Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (305.409764 T355)
• Texas Women Writers: A Tradition of Their Own (810.9 T31)
• Women on the Texas Frontier: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (976.40082 M257)

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