African American Resources
Many books about African American history both in Oklahoma and the United States are available through the Oklahoma History Center Gift Shop. Below is a list of resources available for purchase. Click on the shopping cart link for more information about those items available to purchase online. You may also contact the OHC Gift Shop by phone at 405/522-5214 to order any of the items listed.
Books - Oklahoma
Autobiographies/Biographies
- Roscoe Dunjee: Champion of Civil Rights, Bob Burke and Angela Monson
- Ralph Ellison: A Biography, Bob Burke and Denyvetta Davis
- Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon, Alan Nadel
- A Matter of Black and White: The Autobiography of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
- Black Frontiersman: The Memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, Henry O.
Flipper - The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., Henry O. Flipper
- My Life and An Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin, Buck Colbert Franklin
- Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves, Art Burton
- A Passion for Equality: The Life of Jimmy Stewart, Vicki
Miles-Legrange and Bob Burke - What Color is a Conservative: My Life and Politics, J.C. Watts, Jr.
Miscellaneous History
- Acres of Inspiration: The All-Black Towns in Oklahoma, Hannibal B. Johnson
- Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1865-1907, Murray R. Wickett
Slaves/Slave Narratives
- Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1938: Oklahoma
- The Choctaw Freedmen: And the Story of Oak Hill Industrial
Academy, Valiant, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, Robert Flickinger - The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives, edited by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker
Tulsa Race Riot
- Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Greenwood District, Hannibal Johnson
- The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race riot of 1921, Tim Madigan
- Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, Scott Ellsworth
- If We Must Die: A Novel of Tulsa's 1921 Greenwood Riot, Pat Carr
- Race Riot 1921: Events of the Tulsa Disaster, Mary E. Jones Parrish
Books - U.S.
Genealogy
- Black Indian Genealogy Research: African American Ancestors Among the Five Civilized Tribes, Angela Walton-Raji
- Discovering Your African-American Ancestors: How to Find and
Record Your Unique Heritage, Franklin Smith and Emily Croom - Finding Your African American Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide, David Thackery
- Index to the Cherokee Freedmen Enrollment Cards of the Dawes Commission 1901-1906, Jo Ann Curls Page
General
- Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988, John Hope Franklin
- An Eyewitness History of Slavery in America: From Colonial Times to the Civil War, Dorothy Schneider and Carl Schneider
- 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History, Jeffrey C. Stewart
- Black Women of the Old West, William Katz
- The Black West, William Katz
- Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995, Alwyn Barr
- Black Indian Slave Narratives, Patrick Minges
- Black Cowboys of Texas, edited by Sara Massey
- Atlas of African-American History, James Climent
- The African American West: A Century of Short Stories, edited by Bruce Glasrud and Laurie Champion
- The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped
Our Country, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West - African American Soldier in the Civil War: USCT 1862-1866, Mark Lardas
Video
- DVD/Black Indians: An American Story, Narrated by James Earl Jones
- VIDEO/The Battle of Honey Springs: A Clash of Cultures in Indian Territory, Oklahoma Historical Society
Websites
- http://www.blackpast.org/ - The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
- http://www.aaregistry.com/ - The African American Registry
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