Related Resources
Selected Archival Collections
- Black History Collection. Finding aid available online in HTML and PDF versions.
- Frederick Douglass Papers. Finding aid available online in HTML and PDF versions. Digitized collection available online.
- Charity Adams Earley Papers. Finding aid available online in HTML and PDF versions.
- Christian A. Fleetwood Papers. Finding aid available online in HTML and PDF versions.
- Eugene Edwin Johnston Papers. Finding aid available online in HTML and PDF versions.
- Nelson W. Jordan Family Papers. Finding aid available online in HTML and PDF versions.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Finding aid available online in HTML and PDF versions.
- Noel Francis Parrish Papers. Finding aid available online in HTML and PDF versions.
- Roscoe Robinson Papers. Finding aid available online in HTML and PDF versions.
- United States Army 92nd Infantry Division Collection. Finding aid available online in HTML and PDF versions.
Selected Books
- Astor, Gerald. The Right To Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1998.
- Berlin, Ira, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds. Freedom’s Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Buckley, Gail. American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm. New York: Random House, 2001.
- Francis, Charles F. The Tuskegee Airmen: The Men Who Changed a Nation. Boston: Branden Publishing Company, 1988.
- Gladstone, William A. United States Colored Troops, 1863-1867. Gettysburg, Penn.: Thomas Publications, 1990.
- Gubert, Betty K. Invisible Wings: An Annotated Bibliography on Blacks in Aviation, 1916-1993.Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
- Jordan, Ervin L. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
- Leckie, William H. Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.
- Lee, Ulysses. The Employment of Negro Troops. Washington: Office of the Chief of Military History, 1966.
- Lentz-Smith, Adriane. Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
- McPherson, James M. Marching Toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War, 1861-1865. New York: Knopf, 1968.
- Mershon, Sherrie, and Steven Schlossman. Foxholes & Color Lines: Desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
- Moebs, Thomas Truxtum. Black Soldiers-Black Sailors-Black Ink: Research Guide on African-Americans in U.S. Military History, 1526-1900. Chesapeake Bay [Va.]: Moebs Publishing Co., 1994.
- Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
- . The Negro in the Civil War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1953.
- Scott, Emmett J. Official History of the American Negro in the World War. Chicago: Homewood Press, 1919.
Online Resources at the Library of Congress
- The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938
- The Civil War in America
- Civil War Collection
- Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints
- Civil War Maps
- Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
- Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
- Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs
- NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
- Veterans History Project