Silent protest parade in New York [City] against the East St. Louis riots, 1917
For Black History Month, the Patchogue Medford Library Adult Reference Department and the Local History Department have compiled a list of resources to help you learn more about Black culture and history.
Did you know that Crispus Attucks, a free African-American Dockworker, was the first casualty of the American Revolution?
Did you know that in 1917, 10,000 marchers protested silently against the lynching and race riots that were taking place in East St. Louis in New York City?
Black History Month Resources, February 2016
(Some Readings with a NYS or Local Focus)
General
Black History Month (Long Island Browser)
From Slave to Citizen: The African American Experience in New York, 1827-1872 (New York State. Hall of Governors)
Long Island 2016 Black History Month Events (Westhampton Bays Patch)
Ragusa, Kym. The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging. New York: W. Norton & Co., 2006. – Biography: B RAGUSA KYM
Abolitionism
National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum [Peterboro, NY] (The Museum)
Sernett, Milton C. North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. – Non-Fiction: 8097 SER
Brown, John
John Brown Farm State Historic Site (New York State. Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation)
Cemeteries – New York, NY
Swan, Robert J. New Amsterdam Gehenna: Segregated Death in New York City, 1630-1801. Brooklyn, NY: Noir Verite Press, 2008. — Long Island Room: NY REF 7102 SWA
Civil Rights
Civil Rights and African American History ([Long Island’s] Path Through History)
The Civil Rights Movement on Long Island: A Local History Curriculum Guide for Middle School and High School, by Alan Singer, et al. (Hofstra University. Civil Rights on Long Island)
Commack, NY
Bolger, Timothy. “Commack Rental Complex Accused of Redlining” (Long Island Press, May 1, 2015)
CORE, Long Island
[CORE Long Island captioned photographs] (CORE NYC)
Douglass, Frederick
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition, [ed.] by Angela Y. Davis, including her “Lectures on Liberation”. San Francisco: City Light Books, 2010. – Biography: DOUGLASS FREDERICK; also available online
The North Star (U.S. Library of Congress. American Treasures of the Library of Congress)
Eastern Long Island
Domatob, Jerry Komia. African Americans of Eastern Long Island. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002. – Non-Fiction 725 DOM; Long Island Room: LI REF R-LI-2 974.721 DOM
Garden City, NY & Hempstead, NY]
“Segregation in Long Island’s Backyard – Garden City and Hempstead.” (MH Newsdesk Lite, April 27, 2015)
Garnet, Henry Highland
Henry Highland Garnett. (New York Historical Society. Examination Days: The New York African Free School Collection)
Goldberg, Whoopi
Whoopi Goldberg (Wikipedia)
Karlin, Lily. “Whoopi Goldberg Says the Oscars ‘Can’t Be That Racist’ Because She Won Once.” (Huffpost Entertainment, 1/26/16)
Great Neck, NY [& Manhasset, NY]
Spinney Hill [DVD]: The African American History of Manhasset and Great Neck, produced by Dedrick Johnson & Lloyd Means. [s.l.: n., 2012]. – Media Area: DVD 974.7245 SPI
Hate Groups – Ku Klux Klan
Cheng, Pei-Sze and Ann Givens. “I-Team: Hate Group Members Say KKK is Gaining Strength on Long Island: Actual Numbers are Difficult to Track because the Group Doesn’t Let Outsiders in and Many May Shield Their Membership.” (News 4 New York, May 7, 2015)
King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Address to the new York State Civil War Centennial Commission, September 12, 1962 [complete audioclip] (New York State. Museum)
Museums
African American Museum (The Museum)
New-York State Colonization Society
African Colonization: Proceedings of the Formation of the New-York Colonization Society, Together with an Address to the Public, from the Managers Thereof. Albany, NY: Websters and Skinner, 1829. (Internet Archive)
Exposition of the Errors of the New-York Colonization Society, in Its Late Attacks on the American Colonization Society. New York: Macdonald and Palmer, Printers, 1870. (Internet Archive)
New York City
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment, ed. by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill. Washington, DC: American Museum of African American History and Culture; Smithsonian Books, 2010. – Oversized: Q 792.0974 AIN
Jim Crow New York: A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877, ed. by David N. Gellman and David Quigley. New York: New York University Press, 2003. – Long Island Room: NY REF 323.1196 JIM
Lepore, Jill. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.—Non-Fiction: 7102 LEP
Marbury, Craig & Michael Cunningham. The Spirit of Harlem: A Portrait of America’s Most Exciting Neighborhood. New York: Doubleday, 2003. – Non-Fiction: 71 MAR
Opie, Frederick Douglass. Upsetting the Apple Cart [electronic resource eBook]: Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City, from Protest to Public Office. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. – LiveBrary
Schechter, Barnet. The Devil’s Own Work: The New York City Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America. New York: Walker & Co., 2005, repr. 2007.
North Amityville, NY
Brewster-walker, Sandi. The Colored Girl from Long Island: The Story of my Early Life. Champions Gate, FL: Lulu Publishers, 2007. – Long Island Room: B BREWSTER-WALKER SANDI
Northport, NY
Jackson, Thelma. African Americans in Northport: An Untold Story. Huntington, NY: Maple Hill Press, 2000. – Local History Room: LI REF 725 V-NPRT JAC
Patchogue, NY
Henry, Odessa Lucille. Developing a Program for Church Renewal at the Grace African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Patchogue, New York: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Theological School [of Drew University] in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Ministry. Medford, NY: The Author, May 1991. — Local History Room: LI REF 287.6 HEN
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Patchogue Branch. Installation Dinner, 1965 Journal. [Patchogue, NY: The Branch, 1965]
Port Washington, NY
Vahey, Mary Feeney. A Hidden History: Slavery, Abolition and the Underground Railroad in Cow Neck and on Long Island. Port Washington, NY: Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society, 1998. – Oversize: Q 0974 VAH; Local History Room: LI REF 326.0974 VAH
Racism & Segregation
See also under names of villages
Cantor, Martin R. Long Island, the Global Economy and Race: The Aging of America’s First Suburb. [Bethpage, NY:] Long Island Development Corp./Greater New York Development Co., 2006. – Long Island Room: LI REF 974.721 R-LI-2 CAN
Ildefonso, Olivia. “Segregation, Racism, and Growing Up on Long Island.” (Long Island Wins, November 2, 2011)
Kucser, John, with Gary Orfield. New York State’s Extreme School Segregation: Inequality, Inaction and a Damaged Future, March 2014 (Civil Rights Project)
Lambert, Bruce. “Study Calls L.I. Most Segregated Suburb” New York Times, June 5, 2002)
Long Island: Housing Segregation Causes School Segregation (Diane Ravitch’s Blog, May 23, 2014)
Purchon, Jessica Rose. “[The Richest] 10 Most Segregated American Cities.” (World Money, April 14, 2014) [# “10. Nassau-Suffolk, N.Y., 69.2%”]
Racism and the Opportunity Divide on Long Island, prepared for the ERASE Racism Initiative of the Long Island Community Foundation; Funded by: Long Island Community Foundation and Sustainable Long Island, July 2002 (Institute on Race and Poverty)
Xerinachs, Mike. “New Study Ranks Long Island Among America’s Most Segregated Metro Areas.” (CBS New York, February 24, 2011)
Shelter Island, NY
Griswold, Mac K. The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013.—Non-Fiction: 721 GRI; Local History Room: LI REF 974.721 GRI
Hayes, Katherine Howlett. Slavery Before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians on Long Island’s Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884. New York: New York University Press, 2013. – Non-Fiction 306.362 HAY; Local History Room: LI REF 725 T-SHIS HAY
Slavery – L.I.
Bahn, Gilbert S. Slaves and Nonwhite Free Persons in the 1790 Federal Census of New York. Baltimore, MD: Printed for Clearfield Co., Inc., by Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000. – Reference: GENEALOGY 3747 BAH
Anne. Slavery on Long Island (Long Island Genealogy.com)
Schuessler, Jennifer. “Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Oldest Estates.” (New York Times, August 12, 2015)
Shillingburg Patricia and Edward Shillingburg. The Disposition of Slaves on the East End of Long Island from 1680 to 1796. (Shelter Island.org)
Slavery on Long Island (History of American Women)
Slavery on Long Island (Hofstra University)
Slavery – New York
Chase, Jeanne. “The New York Slave Trade1698-1741: The Geographical Origins of a Displaced People.” [Histoire & Measure, 18(1-2) 2003: 95-112.]
Smith, Gerit
Gerit Smith Estate National Historic Site, Peterboro, New York (The Site)
Truth, Sojourner
About Sojourner Truth (State University of New York at New Paltz. Sojourner Truth Library)
Truth, Sojourner and Olive Gilbert. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York in 1828. Boston: The Author, 1850. (Documenting the American South)
Tubman, Harriet
Harriet Tubman (Wikipedia)
Harriet Tubman: Online Resources, comp. by Angela McMillan (U.S. Library of Congress)
Underground Railroad – L.I.
See also Port Washington, NY
Tobin, Jacqueline L. and Raymond G. Dobard. Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 1999. – Non-Fiction: 7115 TOB
Velsor, Kathleen. The Underground Railroad on Long Island: Friends in Freedom. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2013. – Non-Fiction: 721 VEL; Local History Room: 974.721 VEL
Underground Railroad – New York, NY
Hodges, Graham Russell. David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. – Non-Fiction: 326.8092 HOD
Underground Railroad – New York (State)
Underground Railroad Stations (Timothy McDonnell. Lessons in the Geography of the Underground Railroad in New York State)
Western Long Island
Domatob, Jerry Komia. African Americans of Western Long Island. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002. – Non-Fiction 725 DOM; Long Island Room: LI REF 974.725 DOM
Compiled & edited by Mark Rothenberg, 1/26/16
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