Recommended Reading List
When trying to locate any of the books listed, it is best to refer to both the title and ISBN. Bookstores and libraries will generally be able to find them easily with their computers. If any book on this list is not available at your local library, place a request to have it ordered and added to the library’s collection.

* African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 edited by Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore; University of Oklahoma Press. (ISBN 0-8061-3524-7)
* Archibald Grimke: Portrait of a Black Independent by Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.; Louisiana State University Press. (ISBN 0-8071-1796-X)
* Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America’s First Civil Rights Martyr by Ben Green; The Free Press. (ISBN 0-684-85453-8)
* Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South by Stephanie M. H. Camp; University of North Carolina Press. September, 2004. (ISBN 0-8078-2872-6 Hardcover; 0-8078-5534-0 Softcover) 
* Cousins of Color (a historical novel) by William Schroder; Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd. (ISBN 1-904433-13-8 Hardcover; 1-904433-11-1 Softcover)
* Great Black Leaders: Ancient and Modern edited by Ivan Van Sertima; Journal of African Civilizations Ltd, Inc. (ISBN 0-88738-739-X)
* John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-1865 by William Cheek and Aimee Lee Cheek; University of Illinois Press. (ISBN 0-252-06591-3)
* Night of Fire: The Black Napoleon and the Battle for Haiti by Marin Ros (translated by Karin Ford-Treep); Sarpedon Publishers, Inc. (ISBN 0-9627613-7-0)
* On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of WWII by Jack Hamann; Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. (ISBN: 1565123948)
* “Reexamining the Past: A different Perspective of Black Strikebreakers in King County’s Coal Mining Industry” by Ed Diaz in More Voices, New Stories: King County, Washington’s First 150 Years edited by Mary C. Wright; Pacific Northwest Historians Guild. (ISBN 0-295-98310-8)
* Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies: A Comparison of St. Domingue and Cuba by Gwendolyn Midlo Hull; Louisiana State University Press. (ISBN 0-8071-2083-9)
* To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Linda O. McMurry; Oxford University Press. (ISBN 019-508812-3)
* Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces by Addie W. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson; G.K. Hall & Co. (ISBN 0-7838-1434-8)