Music

Baraka, Amiri. Blues People; Negro Music in White America. W. Morrow, 1963. [Hall Collection ML3556 .B16]

Courlander, Harold. Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. Columbia University Press, 1963. [Alabama Collection ML3556 .C7]

Fenner, Thomas P. Religious Folk Songs of the Negro: As Sung on the Plantations. Hampton Institute Press, 1916. [Rare Collection M1670 .H3 1927]

Handy, W. C. Collection of Negro Spirituals, for Mixed Voices, Male Voices, Also Vocal Solos with Piano Accompaniment, Vol. 1. Handy Bros. Music Co., 1938. [Alabama Collection M1670.H33 C6 v.1]

Johnson, James Weldon. The Book of American Negro Spirituals. Viking, 1925. [Hall Collection M1670 .J67]

Locke, Alain. The Negro and His Music: Negro Art: Past and Present. Arno Press, 1969. [Hall Collection ML3556.L6 N4 1969]

Odum, Howard Washington, and Guy Benton Johnson. The Negro and His Songs; a Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South. University of North Carolina Press, 1925. [Rare Collection ML3556 .O3]

Parrish, Lydia, and Creighton Churchill. Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands. Creative Age Press, 1942. [Rare Collection M1670.P236 S6]

Work, John Wesley. Folk Songs of the American Negro. Press of Fisk University, 1915. [Hall Collection ML3556 .W78]

Food

Bowers, Lessie. Plantation Recipes. Robert Speller & Sons, 1959. [Lupton Collection TX715 .B76 1959]

De Knight, Freda. A Date with a Dish. Hermitage Press, 1948. [Lupton Collection TX715 .D325]

Eliza’s Cook Book. Wetzel Publishing Co. Inc., 1936. [Lupton Collection TX715 .N31 1936]

Gant, Bess. Bess Gant’s Cook Book. Murray & Gee, 1947. [Lupton Collection TX715 .G211 1947b]

Gaskins, Ruth. A Good Heart and a Light Hand. Simon and Schuster, 1970. [Lupton Collection TX715 .G243 1968]

Harwood, Jim, and Ed Callahan. Soul Food Cook Book. Nitty Gritty Productions, 1969. [Lupton Collection TX715 .H346 1969]

Mendes, Helen. African Heritage Cookbook. Macmillan, 1971. [Lupton Collection TX715 .M55 1971]

Mignon, Francois, and Clementine Hunter. Melrose Plantation Cookbook. Natchitoches, La., 1956. [Lupton Collection TX715 .M53 1956]

Richard, Lena. New Orleans Cook Book. Houghton Mifflin, 1940. [Lupton Collection TX715 .R502 1940]

Strobel, Pamela. Princess Pamela’s Soul Food Cookbook. New American Library, 1969. [Lupton Collection TX715 .P9348 1969]

Thurman, Sue Bailey. Historical Cookbook of the American Negro [1958]. Beacon Press, 2000. [Lupton Collection TX715 .H72323 2000]

West, Rebecca. Rebecca’s Cookbook. Washington, D.C., 1942. [Lupton Collection TX715 .W5 1942]

Literature

Anthologies

Bontemps, Arna, and Langston Hughes, eds. The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949: An Anthology. Doubleday, 1951. [Hall Collection PN6109.7 .H8 1951]

Bontemps, Arna, ed. American Negro Poetry. Hill and Wang, 1969. [Hall Collection PS591 .N4 B58 1969]

Clarke, John Henrick, ed. American Negro Short Stories. Hill and Wang, 1967. [Alabama Collection PS647 .A35 C52 1967x]

Cullen, Countee, ed. Caroling Dusk; An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets. Harper and Bros., 1925. [Hall Collection PS3505.U287 C6 1925]

Hughes, Langston, ed. The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers. Little, Brown, 1967. [Hall Collection PS647 .N35B47 1967]

Johnson, James Weldon, ed. The Book of American Negro Poetry: Chosen and Edited, with an Essay on the Negro’s Creative Genius. Harcourt, Brace, 1931. [Alabama Collection PS591.N4 J6 1931]

Watkins, Sylvestre Cornelius, ed. Anthology of American Negro Literature. Modern Library, 1944. [Hall Collection PS508.N3 W3]

Fiction & Folklore

Baldwin, James. Go Tell it on the Mountain. Dial, 1963. [Rare Collection PS3552.A45 G59 1953x]

Bontemps, Arna, and Langston Hughes, eds. The Book of Negro Folklore. Dodd, Mead, 1958. [Hall Collection GR103 .H74]

Chesnutt, Charles W. The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line. Houghton Mifflin, 1899. [Rare Collection PS1292.C6 W5 1899x]

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Random House, 1951. [Hall Collection PS3509.E626 I5]

Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. J. B. Lippincott, 1935. [Alabama Collection GR103 .H8 1935]

McKay, Claude. Home to Harlem. Harper & Bros, 1928. [Rare Collection PS3525.A24785 H6 1928]

Toomer, Jean. Cane. Boni and Liveright, 1923. [Rare Collection PS3539.O478 C3 1923]

Wright, Richard. Uncle Tom’s Children. World, 1938. [Hall Collection PS3545.R815 U5 1938ax]

—. Native Son. New York: Harper & Bros, 1940. [Hall Collection PS3545.R815 N25 1940]

Poetry

Brooks, Gwendolyn. In the Mecca; Poems. Harper & Row, 1968. [Hall Collection PS3503.R7244 I5]

Brown, Sterling A. Southern Road. Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1932. [Hall Collection PS3503.R833 S6 1932]

Cullen, Countee. Color. Harper & Bros., 1925. [Rare Collection PS3505.U287 C6 1925]

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. [Hall Collection PS1556 .L6 1896x]

—. Poems of Cabin and Field. Dodd, Mead, 1900. [Hall Collection PS1556 .P6 1900]

Hughes, Langston. The Weary Blues. Knopf, 1926. [Hall Collection PS3515.U274 A6 1926]

Johnson, James Weldon. God’s Trombones; Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Viking, 1927. [Hall Collection PS3519.O2625 G6 1927]

McKay, Claude. Harlem Shadows. Harcourt, Brace, 1922. [Hall Collection PS3525.A24785 H3 1922]

Drama

Baraka, Amiri. Dutchman and The Slave; Two Plays. Morrow, 1964. [Hall Collection PS3552.A583 D8]

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New American Library, 1966. [Hall Collection PS3515.A515 R3 1966]

Hughes, Langston. Five Plays. Indiana University Press, 1963. [Hall Collection PS3515.U274 A19 1963]

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