Selected Books
Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle by Call Number: Access online via JSTORISBN: 1469662787Publication Date: 2022-11-29
Riders in the Storm:The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Black Cavalry Regiment in the Civil by Call Number: Sawyer New Books E513.6 5th .W37 2022ISBN: 9780811770859Publication Date: 2022-05-15
North to Boston: Life Histories from the Black Great Migration in New England by Call Number: SAWYER NEW BOOKS F73.9.B53 .G867 2022ISBN: 9780197614440Publication Date: 2023-04-21
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War by Call Number: SAWYER NEW BOOKS F73.44 .J66 2023ISBN: 9781541619791Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Black Bostonians by Call Number: Sawyer Library 4th Floor F73.9.N4 H67 1999ISBN: 0841913803Publication Date: 2000-07-01
African American History in Boston
- Primary Research: African-Americans in Antebellum BostonPrimaryresearch.org is a collaboration of local research institutions and high school students. This project is the work of 13 Beverly High School students in collaboration with the Boston Athenaeum and the Boston African-American National Historic Site, with support from Professor Robert Allison of Suffolk University. The site includes digitized documents from the Athenaeum, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Massachusetts State Archives, the State House Special Collections, the City of Boston Archives, and the American Antiquarian Society.
- Museum of African American HistoryLocated on Boston's Beacon Hill.
- The Bay State Banner Online EditionHere is the website of the Boston area's long-standing African American community newspaper. Current feature stories, editorials and the like are available online.