African-American Studies Arizona State University
http://www.asu.edu/clas/aframstu/

Tucson's African-American Heritage
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/afamer/homepage.html

Arizona Republic Special Section- Cultures AZ
http://www.azcentral.com/culturesaz/afroam/settlers_afro.shtml

US Census statistics on African-Americans
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/afamhot1.html

Greater Phoenix Urban League
http://www.azcentral.com/community/pul/
http://www.greaterphxurbanleague.org/

National Urban League
http://www.nul.org/

Greater Phoenix Black Chamber of Commerce
http://www.gpbcc.org/

Bibliographic Essay on the African American West by Quintard Taylor
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/aaw.htm

Buffalo Soldiers
http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buf1.html

Civil Rights Law
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/ch21.html

Historical Reports of the Civil Rights Commission, African-Americans
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/edocs/usccr/html%20files/subjlist.asp#africanamericans

Juneteenth
http://www.juneteenth.com/

NAACP Website
http://www.naacp.org/

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Books/Manuscripts found on the ASU Library Catalog

Minorities in Phoenix : a profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American communities, 1860-1992 / Bradford Luckingham
F819 .P57 L82 1994

Phoenix, Arizona, central city of the southwest, 1870-1920 / by Geoffrey Padraic Mawn
F819 .P57 M34x

Black Americana in Arizona : with 1992 supplement: African-Americana in Arizona / By Gloria L. Smith
F820.N4 S64 1992

Black heritage in Arizona / by Richard E. Harris.
F820.N4 H37x

The first hundred years : a history of Arizona Blacks / by Richard E. Harris.
E185.93 .A7 H37 1983

An Economic, Political, Social Survery of Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun
Horton, Arthur G.
F819. P57 H6

Arizona's forgotten past : the Negro in Arizona, 1539-1965 / by Robert Kim Nimmons.
E185.93.A7N5

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Items on the Arizona and Southwest Index

Black Cowboys in the Territory of Arizona, 1984
FM MSM-28

Blacks of Phoenix, 1890-1930, N.D.
FM MSM-29

Sylvia's Memories, 1985
FM MSM-81

The Racist Southwest, 1991
FM MSM-131

Attitudes of Negroes in Various Cities, 1967
FE EPH RB-1

Operation Leap, 1965
CM MSM-291

Operation Leap - A Report To the People, 1968.
CE EPH GCI-123

(1893) Afro-American Society(by Frank Shirley), Colored Republican Club, Good Citizens League, The Colored Forum, Colored Literary Society, (1926) Phoenix Union Colored High School, (1931) Phoenix Protective League(Scot, Simpson, Davis), (1930) "Negro Division" of Phoenix Community Chest, St. Monica's Community Center.
 

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Biographies of Prominent Blacks

Biography of Mary Elizabeth Green.
UB ASU BIO-726

Biography of James L. Davis
CE EPH BO-1

Biography of Augustus Shaw
CE EPH BO-4

Biography of Lincoln Ragsdale
CB BIO RAG,LIN
FB BIO RAG,LIN

Lincoln Ragsdale Oral History.
FO OH 10

Ruth Finn Oral History.
FO OH 3

Thomasena Grigsby Oral History.
 FO OH 7

Biography of Cloves C. Campbell.
FB BIO CAM,CLO

George Brooks Oral History.
FO OH 1
FO OH 2

Biography of Robert Nesby
CE EPH BO-3

Biography of Robert Nathaniel Nesby Jr.
FB BIO NES,ROB

Biography of Mary Rose Garrido Wilcox, 1950-.
CB BIO WIL,MAR

Biography of Calvin Goode.
CB BIO GOO,CAL

Calvin Goode Oral History.
FO OH 4

Biography of Carolyn Walker.
CB BIO WAL,CAR
FB BIO WAL,CAR
CE EPH RB-11

Frank Shirley, John E. Lewis, Elizabeth Harrison, Dr. Winston C. and Myrtle Hackett, Crump, George Caldwell, James A. Green, M.H. Sheldon, Sidney Scott, H.D. Simpson, Wade Hammond,   Jim Williams, Austin Coleman,  Reilly, Carl Craig.

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Locations of African-American Concentration in Phoenix

E. Jefferson, E. Washington, Van Buren, Madison, Central Ave., to 16th St.
South of Washington St., north of Buckeye road.
from Central Ave., to 16th st., and 7th st., and 7th ave.
from Madison to Buckeye.
 

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Photographs

Photograph: Afro-American-Soldiers; Nogales, Arizona, 1914
DC COO-1044 - 1048

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Articles

Ethnohistory Summer 1972
Blacks in the early Southwest

Phoenix Magzine February 1979
Heritage of the Buffalo Soldier: Author theorizes that Arizona may exhibit less discrimination because of the great black heritage of the Buffalo Soldiers

Phoenix Magazine September 1982
Living Black in Phoenix

Arizona Republic Nov. 3, 1890
Nothwithstanding contrary reports, the colored voters of Maricopa County stand as a unit in favor of the Republican ticket from Cheyney down to Bayney

Arizona Citizen Feb. 22, 1878
Obvious article relating the existance of the K.K.K. in Florence. Attitude is shown by the paper and of an upcoming get together regarding the K.K.K.

Tombstone Epitaph August 12, 1880
This article shows the population of Arizona broken down by county's. The county's population is futher broken down by race, and for whites by age. The blacks in almost every country are in the minority, behind the Indians, Chinese and Mexicans. The number listed for Blacks does not include Black soldiers, as all soldiers were grouped together.

Point West September 1965
The Negro in Phoenix

Arizona Magazine June 2, 1968
A look at the problem through the eyes of negroes

Journal of Arizona History 32:2 (Summer 1991):195-216
Blacks and Whites Together: Interracial Leadership in the Phoenix Civil Rights Movement
 

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