AfroTexan
Historical and Genealogical
Resources

         
Books
 
A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors: How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage
A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors: How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage

Lives and Times of Black Dallas Women
Lives and Times of Black Dallas Women

Juneteenth Texas
Juneteenth Texas

Black Texas Women: A SourceBook
Black Texas Women: A SourceBook

Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle
Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle

East Texas Daughter
East Texas Daughter

Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas
Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas

 
General
Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph
Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995
Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: The Black Leadership of Texas, 1868-1900
Bricks Without Straw: A Comprehensive History of African Americans in Texas
Private Black Colleges in Texas, 1865-1954 (Texas a and M Southwestern Studies)
Black Churches in Texas: A Guide to Historic Congregations (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas a & M University)
Faith keepers: African American women leaders in Texas 1846-2000 in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Black leaders: Texans for their times
Out of the Mouths of Slaves: African American Language and Educational Malpractice

In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the Naacp, 1900-1957 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas a & M University)
The African Texans (Texans All)
Meeting the Blues/the Rise of the Texas Sound
 
Slavery
An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865
The Slave Narratives of Texas
I Was Born in Slavery: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Texas (Real Voices, Real History Series)
The American Slave--Texas Narratives: Part 8, Supp. Ser. 2, Vol 9 (Texas Narratives Supplemantary Series 2)
Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series, No 6)
Wealth and Power in AnteBellum Texas

From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston
Reconstruction
The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans
The Army in Texas During Reconstruction, 1865-1870 (Texas a&M University Military History Series, No 3)
Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas (Reville Book)
Overreached on All Sides: The Freedmen's Bureau Administrators in Texas, 1865-1868
Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880
The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture, No. 19)
Time of Hope, Time of Despair: Black Texans During Reconstruction (Series in Ethnic Studies)
Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, No. 6)
Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880
Negro Militia and Reconstruction

Cullen Montgomery Baker: Reconstruction Desperado
Latter Nineteenth Century
Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
Negro in Texas, 1874-1900

Reconstruction to Reform: Texas Politics, 1876-1906
Feeding the Wolf: John B. Rayner and the Politics of Race, 1850-1918 (The American History Series)
 
Twenty Century
Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas a & M University)
Behold the People: R.C. Hickman's Photographs of Black Dallas 1949-1961 (Barker Texas History Center Series)
Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas
Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas

The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington And the Rise of the Naacp (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University)
The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith V. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
Barbara Jordan: Breaking the Barriers
Flames after Midnight: Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community

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