History: African American: Primary Sources

"Pretends to be free" : runaway slave advertisements from colonial and revolutionary New York and New Jersey by Graham R. Hodges; Alan E. Brown

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

The African American experience : black history and culture through speeches, letters, editorials, poems, songs, and stories by Kai Wright (Editor)

The autobiographies of the Haymarket martyrs by Philip Sheldon Foner, Anarchism Collection (Library of Congress), Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)

Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it by Herb Boyd (Editor); Gordon Parks (Foreword by)

Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley (As told to); Malcolm X; Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr by Clayborne Carson

The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough by W. S. Scarborough; Michele V. Ronnick (Introduction by)

Bearing witness : selections from African-American autobiography in the twentieth century by Henry Louis Gates

Bitter fruit : African American women in World War II by Maureen Honey (Editor)

The Black Experience, 1865-1978 by Anthony J. Cooper (Editor)

Black Protest and the Great Migration by Peter J. Arnesen; Eric Arnesen

A Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volonteers [sic] by Taylor, Susie King, b. 1848

Black Workers Remember by Michael Keith Honey

Classic African American Women's Narratives by William L. Andrews

Classical Black nationalism : from the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey by Wilson J. Moses (Editor)

Diary of a contraband : the Civil War passage of a Black sailor by William B. Gould; Mark O. Hatfield (Foreword by)

Diary of a Contraband: the Civil War passage of a Black sailor by William B. Gould; Mark O. Hatfield (Foreword by)

Dusk of Dawn by W. E. B. Du Bois; Irene Diggs (Introduction by)

Free at last : a documentary history of slavery, freedom, and the Civil War by Ira Berlin (Editor); Steven Miller (Editor); Barbara J. Fields (Editor); Joseph P. Reidy (Editor); Leslie S. Rowland (Editor)

Freedomways Reader : prophets in their own country by Esther Cooper Jackson; Constance Pohl

From bondage to belonging : the Worcester slave narratives by B. Eugene McCarthy (Editor); Thomas L. Doughton (Editor); John Stauffer (Foreword by)

He Included Me : the autobiography of Sarah Rice by Sarah Rice; Louise Westling (Editor)

His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the underground railroad by John P. Parker; Stuart Steely Sprague (Editor)

The invisible soldier : the experience of the Black soldier, World War II by Mary P. Motley (Editor)

The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb : an American slave by Henry Bibb; Charles J. Heglar (Introduction by)

Lift every voice : African American oratory, 1787-1900 by Philip S. Foner (Editor); Robert J. Branham (Editor)

Malcolm X Speaks : selected speeches and statements by George Breitman (Editor); Malcolm X

Martin R. Delany : a documentary reader by Martin Robison Delany; Robert S. Levine (Editor)

Meatpackers : an oral history of Black packinghouse workers and their struggle for racial and economic equality by Rick Halpern; Roger Horowitz

My life and an era : the autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin by John Hope Franklin (Editor); John W. Franklin (Editor)

Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth; Jeffrey Stewart (Introduction by)

Pamphlets of protest : an anthology of early African-American protest literature, 1790-1860 by Richard Newman (Editor); Patrick Rael (Editor); Phillip Lapsansky (Editor)

The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Clayborne Carson (Editor); Ralph E. Luker (Editor); Penny A. Russell (Editor); Louis R. Harlan (Editor); Martin Luther King

The power of pride : stylemakers and rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance by Carole L. Marks; Diana Edkins; Juan Williams (Foreword by)

Say it loud : great speeches on civil rights and African American identity by Catherine Ellis (Editor); Stephen Drury Smith (Editor)

The South since the war : as shown by fourteen weeks of travel and observation in Georgia and the Carolinas by Sidney Andrews; Heather Cox Richardson (Introduction by)

A testament of hope : the essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King; James M. Washington (Editor)

Three Negro Classics by John Hope Franklin (Editor); James Weldon Johnson

The Trouble they seen : the story of Reconstruction in the words of African Americans by Dorothy Sterling

Voices in the mirror : an autobiography by Gordon Parks

Witness for freedom : African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation by C. Peter Ripley (Editor); Roy E. Finkenbine (Editor); Michael F. Hembree (Editor); Donald Yacovone (Editor)

Women's Work: an anthology of African-American women's historical writings from antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp (Editor); Kathryn Lofton (Editor)