Reference Library
This list contains many but not all of the resources available for the visitor to the museum.
This list was compiled by a summer student working at the museum in the summer of 1996.
In addition to the materials found here are genealogical records of most Buxton families.

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Abdull, Raoul, ed. The Magic of Black Poetry.
Illustrations by Dane Burr. New York: Dood, Mead and Company, 1972.

African Cultural Heritage. Michigan 4-H Youth Programs. Cooperative Extension Service.

African Culture Series: Native Musical Instruments.
Detroit: Children's Museum, Detroit Public Schools. Children's Book.

Albert, Frances Jacob, ed. Sod House Memories: A Treasury of Soddy Stories. 1972.

Amherstburg Regular Missionary Baptist Association: Its Auxiliaries and Churches.
Pathfinders of Liberty and Truth. 1940. 2 copies.

American Visions: The Magazine of Afro-American Culture.
August 1986. June 1991.

Anderson, Frank W. The Frank Slide Story. 1968.

Anderson, O.P. Harper's Ferry.

Apostle: British Methodist Episcopal Church.

• January 1977, Vol.1, No.2
• April 1977, Vol. 1, No. 2.
• May 1978, Vol. 2, No. 2.
• November 1978, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Apostle: B.M.E. Church. "The International Year of the Child.
December 1979, Vol. 3, No. 2.

Apostle: B.M.E. Church. "The Birthplace of our Conference: Souvenir Edition." 29 September 1981.

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Bailey, Pearl. Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook.
Markham: Simon and Schuster, 1974.

Barry, Wendy Lee. Raleigh Township Statute Labour 1838 -1847.
Genealogical Reference Data. 1985.

Bearden, Jim and Linda Jean Butler. Shadd: The Life and Times of Mary Shadd Cary.
Toronto: NC Press Ltd., 1977.

Benét, Stephen Vincent. John Brown's Body.
Illustrated by Fritz Kredel and Warren Chappell. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co., Ltd., 1927.

Bennett, Lerone Jr. "A Living History: Voices of the Past Speak to the Present." In Ebony, February 1985.

Bennett, Lerone Jr. Before the Mayflower: The History of the Negro in America 1619 - 1964. Revised Edition.
Baltimore: Pelican Books, 1964.

Best, Carrie M. That Lonesome Road.
Autobiography. Nova Scotia: Clarion Publishing Co., 1977.

Black Historic Sites in Detroit.
Detroit Historical Department, January 1989. 2 copies.

Bigglestone, William E. They Stopped in Oberlin: Black Residents and Visitors of the Nineteenth Century. Ohio: Oberlin, 1981.

The Black Experience: Part 2.

Black Heritage Discovery.

Blacks in Detroit: A Reprint of Articles from the Detroit Free Press.
Scott McGehee and Susan Watson, eds. December 1980.

Black Studies: A Resource Guide for Teachers.

Ontario: Ministry of Education. 2 copies.

"Traveling by the Book: If you were black and driving through Michigan in the 50s. some Detroit hotels would take you in.
But for the open road, you packed a Green Book." Subject: The Negro Traveler's Green Book.
In The Detroit News: Michigan. 9 October 1988.

On Black History: Nova Scotia - A Pictorial. Halifax: Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.

The North American Black Historical Museum Celebrates the 150th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery Act and Ontario's Bicentennial: 1834 - 1984.

Blockson, Charles L. Escape From Slavery: The Underground Railroad."
In National Geographic. Vol. 166, No.1, July 1984. Brandon, Robert. A History of Dresden. Presented to Mark the Occasion of Dresden's Centennial Celebrations June 30 - July 5, 1954.
Printed by the Dresden Times.

Brandt, Nat. The Town that Started the Civil War.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990.

Breon, Robin and Vera Cudjoe. The Story of Mary Ann Shadd.
Illustrated by Mary McLoughlin. Toronto: Carib-Can Publishers, 1988. Children's Book.

John Brown Forte. Vol. X, No.3. Summer 1988.

Burey, Owen. Canadian Canaan: A History of Black Baptists in Ontario.
Senior Seminar For Presentation to the Faculty and Senior Students. Hamilton: McMaster Divinity College, 1981.

Burr, J. Earl. Down Our Road: Written for the Charing Cross Centennial 1973. Sketches by Paul LeClair.

Byers, Paula K. African American Genealogical Sourcebook. New York: Gale Research Inc., 1995.

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Cain, Alfred E. Negro Heritage Reader for Young People.
Yonkers: Educational Heritage, Inc., 1965. Children's Book.

Canadian Medical Association Journal. 4 June 1977. Vol. 116, No. 11.

Canadian Notes and Queries.
No. 17, July 1976.
No. 18, December 1976.
No. 23, June 1979. No.24, December 1979.

Carter, Velma and Levero (Lee) Carter. The Black Canadians: Their History and Contributions.
Edmonton: Reidmore Books, 1989.

Case Studies and Community Action Programs under the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Age Discrimination Act. 2 copies.

The Canadian Journal of Canadian Conservation Institute.
National Museums of Canada, 1976.

Chavers-Wright, Madrue. The Guarantee - P.W. Chavers: Banker, Entrepreneur Philanthropist in Chicago's Black Belt of the Twenties.
New York: Wright- Armstead Associates, 1985.

Choquette, Robert. Ontario: An Informal History of Its Land and Its People.
Ministry of Education. 2 copies.

Ministry of Citizenship and Culture. An Enduring Heritage: Black Contributions to Early Ontario.
Text prepared by Roger Riendeau. Toronto: Dundurn Press Limited, 1984.

Ministry of Citizenship and Culture. Heritage: Giving Our Past a Future.
Ontario Heritage Policy Review. April 1987.

Canot, Theodore (captain) Adventures of an African Slaver.
1854. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.

Clemens, Samuel L. Huckleberry Finn.
New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company.

Coles, Robert. Dead End School. Illustrated by Norman Rockwell.
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1968. Children's Book.

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races.
May 1966. Vol. 73, No. 5.
April - May 1971. Vol. 78, No. 3.

Ministry of Culture and Communications. Survivors. 1988. 2 copies.

Ministry of Culture and Communications. Legacy: Newsletter of the Archives of Ontario.
Vol. 1, No.3. Special Issue: Heritage Week. 20-25 February 1989.

Curtis, James C. and Lewis L. Gould, eds.
The Black Experience in America: Selected Essays. 1970.

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Davis, Russell H. Black Americans in Cleveland From George Peake to Carl B. Stokes. 1972.

Detroit's Black Heritage...a partial guide to people and places significant in the history of Detroit and its Black Community.
2nd ed. Detroit: Detroit Historical Museum Black Historic Sites Committee, 1975.

D'Oyley, Enid and Rella Braithwaite, eds and comps. Women of Our Times.
Toronto: Canadian Negro Women's Association Inc., 1973.

D'Oyley, Vincent, ed. Black Presence in Multi-Ethnic Canada.
Vancouver: Centre for the Study of Cirriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education.

D'Oyley, Vincent, ed. Black Students in Urban Canada.

Drew, Benjamin. A North-Side View of Slavery- The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada.
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856.

Dungy, Hilda. Planted by the Waters: A Genealogy of the Jones-Carter Family.
Wallaceburg: Standard Press, 1975. 2 copies

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Elgin Settlement: First Settler Records.

Emancipation Festivities and Program. 1-3 August 1981. Windsor.

Epstein, Sam and Beryl. George Washington Carver, Negro Scientist: A Discovery Book.
Illustrated by William Moyers. Illinois: Garrard Publishing Co., 1960.

Essence. Magazine. April 1993.

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Fast, Howard. Freedom Road. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce Publishers, 1944.

Chatham Welcomes Fergie Home. Subject: Fergie Jenkins.

Fitzhugh, Louise. Nobody's Family is Going to Change.
New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc., 1974. Children's Book.

Fraser, Anne. The Blacks of Niagara Falls 1850 - 1989. B.A. Thesis.
St. Catharines: Brock University, 1989.

French, Gary E. Men of Colour: An Historical Account of the Black Settlement on Wilberforce Street and in Oro Township, Simcoe County, Ontario 1819 - 1949.
Orillia: Dyment-Stubley Printers, 1978. 2 copies.

From Slavery to Freedom...an essay in progress.
Information Booklet. University of Windsor: Hiram Walker and Sons, Ltd., 1965. 2 copies.

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Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
8th ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1971.

The Geneological Helper: Dedicated to Helping People Find More Genealogy.
Utah: The Everton Publishers, 1979. 2 copies.

Goss, Linda and Marian E. Barnes, eds. Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African American Storytelling.
Toronto: Simon and Schuster/Touchstone, 1989.

Graham, Shirley. Booker T. Washington: Educator of Hand, Head, and Heart.
13th ed. New York: Julian Messner, 1969.

Greene, Robert Ewell. The Leary-Evans, Ohio's Free People of Colour.
Foreward by Dorothy Inborden Miller. Washington, D.C.: Hickman Printing Inc., 1989.

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Hamil, Fred Coyne. The Valley of the Lower Thames 1640 - 1850 .
Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1951.

Harding, Vincent. There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1981.

Head, Wilson A. Ontario Human Rights Commission. The Black Presence in the Canadian Mosiac:A Study of Perception and the Practice of Discrimination against Blacks in Metropolitan Toronto.
Ontario Human Rights Commission, 1975.

Henle, Fritz, photographer. Virgin Islands. Text by Vivienne Tallal Winterry.
New York: Hastings House, 1949.

Henson, Josiah. The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave. Boston: Arthur D. Phelps, 1949.

Hill, Daniel G. Human Rights in Canada: A Focus on Racism.
Government of Canada, 1977.

Hill, Lawrence. Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association 1951 - 1976.
Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1996.

Howe, S.G. Refugees From Slavery in Canada West: Report to the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission.
Boston: Wright and Potter Printers, 1864.

Hughes, Langston and Milton Meltzer. A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1956.

Hughes, Langston et al. A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.
3rd ed. Introduction by C. Eric Lincoln. New York: Crown Publishers, 1969.

Human Relations: The Right to Live in Dignity. Vol. 9, No. 17.
Ontario: Ontario Human Rights Commission, 1969.

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International Library of Negro Life and History.

• "The History of the Negro in Medicine," by Herbert M. Morais.
• " Negro Americans in the Civil War," by Charles Wesley and Patricia W. Romero.
• "Anthology of the American Negro in the Theatre," by Lindsay Patterson.
• "The Negro in Music and Art," by Lindsay Patterson.
• "Historical Negro Biographies," by Wilhelmena S. Robinson.

International Review of African American Art. Samella Lewis, ed. Vol.6, No.2. 2 copies

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Jackson, Dave and Neta. Escape From the Slave Traders.
Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1992. Children's book.

James, Carl E. and Adrienne Shadd, eds. Talking About Difference: Encounters in Culture, Language and Identity.
Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1994.

Jamieson, Anne Straith. William King: Friend and Champion of the Slaves.
Toronto: F. A. Robinson, 1925. 3 copies.

Jefferson, Karen L. The Glenn Carrington Collection: A Guide to the books, manuscripts, music and recordings. June 1977.

Jet. 8 July 1976. Bicentennial Collector's Issue.

Johnson, Rev. Jennie. My Life. Dresden, 1950.

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Katz, Bernard, ed. The Social Implications of Early Negro Music in the United States: With Over 150 Songs, Many of Them With Music.
New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969.

Katz, William Loren. Eyewitness: The Negro in American History.
Toronto: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1968.

Keil, Doris Parkin. The Ploughboy and the Nightingale.
Copp Clark Publishing Company, 1958.

Killens, John Oliver. "A Traveler's Guide to Two Cities: Boston and New Orleans: A Black novelist traces the deeds and lives of Black men and women along the trail of America's history."
Redbook. July 1969.

King, Reverend William. Autobiography of Rev. William King and Supplementary Papers.

King, Reverend William. William King Letters 1889.

Klima, Vladimir and Karel F. Ruzicka and Petr Zima. Black Africa: Language and Literature.
Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1976.

Kroll, Virginia. Wood-Hoopoe Willie. Illustrated by Katherine Roundtree.
Watertown: Charlesbridge Publishing, 1992. Children's book.

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Ladd, Glen. Gleanings From the Glen. 1974.

Lane, Artis. Folder of Articles about the Artist and Reproductions of Her Work.

Lanker, Brian. I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America. Barbara Summers, ed. Foreward by Maya Angelou.
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989.

Larrie, Reginald. Corners of Black History. New York: Vantage Press, 1971.

Larrie, Reginald. Makin' Free: African-Americans in the Northwest Territory.
Detroit: Blaine Ethridge Books, 1981.

Lauriston, Victor. Romantic Kent: The Story of a County 1626 - 1952.

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX: Barnwell, Mabel and Bernice Peacock, comps.
Chatham: The Mercury Press, 1967. 2 copies.

Litwack, Leon F. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States 1790 -1860.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

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MacEwan, Grant. Fifty Mighty Men. Saskatoon: Western Producer, 1970.

Macleans. "The Storied Land: Discovering the Heroes, Villians, Myths and Legends that Shape the Nation." 6 July 1992.

McCall, Barbara. Marvelous Michael Jackson: An Unauthorized Biography.
Connecticut: Weekly Reader Books, 1984.

McFarquhar, Colin. Black Abolitionists in Canada West to 1960.
M.A. Thesis. University of Windsor, 1989.

McRae, Norman and Jerry Blocker. The American Negro: A History in Biography & Pictures. Illustrated by Carl Owens.
Detroit: Impact Enterprises Inc., 1965.

Mallory, Mary C., comp. John Lutman, ed. A Heritage: A Congregational History Bleheim United Church.
Forest: J.B. Pole Printing, 1977.

Mathews, Basil. The Clash of Colour: A Study in the Problem of Race.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924.

Matt, Marion. The Dipper Stick: A History of Drainage in Kent County, Ontario.
An Exhibition and Book Organized and Produced by the Thames Arts Centre, Chatham, ON. 1979.

Mitton, J.A. and J.A. Griffin. Index to Kent County, Ontario Marriage Registers 1857 - 1869.
Kent County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, 1985.

Monk, Lorraine. Image 6: A Review of Contemporary Photography in Canada.
Toronto: The National Film Board of Canada, 1970.

Morris, Frank L. The Progress of a Race and Select Poems.
Detroit: Frank L. Morris, 1926. 2 copies.

Mottram, R.H. Buxton the Liberator. New York: Hutchison & Co. Ltd.

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National Urban League, Inc. Black Perspectives on the Bicentennial: Economic Progress of Blacks After 200 Years. 1976.

National Urban League, Inc. Black Perspectives on the Bicentennial: The Black Press and the First Amendment. 1976.

National Urban League, Inc. Black Perspectives on the Bicentennial: Blacks and US Wars. 1976.

Negro Digest: A Magazine of Negro Comment. May 1945. April 1946. July 1949. March 1947.

The New Buxton Experiment. An Internats Project. 2 copies.

Nurses' Alumnae Association. History of Public General Hospital School of Nursing 1890 -1983.
Chatham, ON.

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Oberlin Community History. Pennsylvania: Josten's Publications, 1981.

Ontario Black History Society. Annual Report 1985 - 86 8th Annual Meeting of the Ontario Black History Society.
27 September 1986.

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Parker, William. The Freedman's Story.

Parker, J. Carlyle. Gale Genealogy & Local History Series Vol. 15: Library Service for Genealogists.
Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1981.

Patterson, Lillie. Martin Luther King Jr.: Man of Peace.
New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc., 1969. Children's book.

People. "ROOTS. Back to Africa with an embattled Alex Haley."
9 May 1977.

Perry, Charlotte Bronte. Laura Rosenthal, ed. One Man's Journey: Roy Prince Edward Perry 1905 -1972.
Windsor: Sumner Press, 1982.

Porter, G.C. The Model Negro Colony in Kent County.

International Prince Hall Day: Freedom Fighters. 24 September 1972.

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Reader's Digest. May 1974. Includes "My Search for Roots: A Black American's Story," by Alex Haley.

Reader's Digest. June 1974. Book section includes: Roots: Part II by Alex Haley.

Reader's Digest. July 1986. Includes "Murder Clues From the Black Museum," by Bill Waddell.

Robbins, Vivian. Musical Buxton. 3 copies.

Robeson, Eslanda Goode. African Journey. New York: The John Day Company, 1945.

Robinson, Gwendolyn and John W. Robinson. Seek the Truth: A Story of Chatham's Black Community. 1989.

Robbins, A.C. Legacy to Buxton. 1983.

Rogers, J.A. World's Great Men of Color 3000 B.C. to 1946 A.D. Vols I & II.
New York: F. Hubner & Co., Inc., 1946.

Rouzan, Mamie Austin. All Around the Square: Feliciana & East & West Feliciana Parishes. Louisiana: R & S Publishers, 1971.

Ruck, Calvin W. The Black Battalion 1916 -1920 Canada's Best Kept Military Secret.
Halifax: Nimbus Publishing Limited, 1987.

Ryan, Timothy. Voices of the Past: A History of Melfort and District.
Published by the Melfort and District Golden Jubilee Committee, July 1955.

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Semak, Michael, photographer. Image 4: If This Is the Time.
Photographed in Ghana.

Shadd, Mary A. A Plea for Emigration: Notes on Canada West.
Detroit: George W. Pattison, 1852.

Shadd Shreve, Dorothy. The AfriCanadian Church: A Stabilizer.
Jordan Station: Paideia Press, 1983. 2 copies.

Shapiro, Walter. "Jesse!? Jackson's Surprising Surge."
Time. 11 April 1988.

Simpson, Donald George. Negroes in Ontario From Early Times To 1870.
Volumes I & II. London: University of Western Ontario, March 1971.

Smith, Thelma Quinn, comp and ed. Our North Buxton Heritage: Mary E. Hatter Quinn Memorial.
North Buxton, 1978.

Sojourners. 20 January 1986.

South Africa: Implications for U.S. Policy - A Congressional Conference. Women's Division, United Methodist Church.
New York: Fund for New Priorities in America, 1976.

Southern Africa. Vol. X, No. 5. June/July 1977.

Souvenir Program: 65th Anniversary of Union United Church.
Montreal.

Uprooting a Nation: The study of 3 million evictions in South Africa.
London: Africa Publications Trust.

Spencer, Diana L. Abraham Lincoln.
Illustrated by Isidre Mones. New York: Derrydale Books. Children's Book.

The Sporting News: Fifty-Second Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies Annual Program.
Cooperstown: The Sporting News, 1991.

Stein, Sara Bonnett.

That New Baby: An Open Family Book For Parents and Children Together. Photography by Dick Frank.
New York: The Danbury Press, 1974.

Still, William. The Underground Railroad.
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co. Inc., 1970.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp. Vols 1 & 2.
New York: AMS Press, 1856.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Taylor, Frances Cloud. The Trackless Trail: The story of the Underground Railroad in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding community.<> Pennsylvania: 1976.

They Chose Greatness: Women Who Shaped America and the World.
Michigan: Department of Education/Office for Sex Equity, Fall 1980.

Thomas, Owen A. Niagara's Freedom Trail: A Guide to African-Canadian History on the Niagara Peninsula.
Prepared & Published with the assistance of the Ontario Heritage Foundation. Niagara Falls: Region Niagara Tourist Council, 1995.

Tolson, Arthur L. The Black Oklahomans, A History: 1541 -1972.
New Orleans: Edwards Printing Company, 1974.

Tolson, Melvin. A Gallery of Harlem Portraits.
Afterward by Robert M. Farnsworth, ed. Colombia: University of Missouri Press, 1979.

Turner, Elizabeth M. The Banks Legacy: The Chronicles of a Free, Negro Family.

Turner, Glennetts Tilley. Talk A Walk in Their Shoes.
Illustrated by Elton C. Fax. New York: Cobblehill Books, 1989.

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ULL. Ullman, Victor. Look to the North Star.

Ullman, Victor. Martin A. Delany: The Beginnings of Black Nationalism.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.

Underground Railroad: Special Resource Study/Management Concepts.
Denver: United States Department of the Interior/National Park Service, September 1995.

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Vass, George. Like Nobody Else: The Fergie Jenkins Story. As told by Ferguson Jenkins.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1973.

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Walker, James W. St. G. The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone 1782 - 1870.
London: The Longman Group Limited, 1976.

Walls, Dr. Bryan E. The Road that Led to Somewhere: A documented novel about the underground railroad.
Windsor: Olive Publishing Company Ltd., 1980.

Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963.

Williams, Ora. American Black Women in the Arts and Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey.
Revised and expanded edition. New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1978.

Williamson, Joel. A Rage For Order: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Wilson, Thomas B, ed. The Ontario Register Volume 3 1970.
New Jersey: 1980.

Windsorite Reunion: Fellowship Banquet Honoree Presentation.
Windsor: 18 - 20 July, 1980.

Wish, Harvey, ed. The Negro Since Emancipation.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Hall, 1964.

Witherspoon, Reginald. An Epic of Heroism: The Underground Railroad in Michigan 1837 - 1870.
Detroit: The Museum of African American History, May 1988.

Witherspoon, William Roger. Martin Luther King, Jr...To The Mountaintop.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985.

Wright, Richard. Native Son. New York: The Modern Library, 1940.

Wright, Roberta Hughes. The Birth of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Foreward by the Honorable L. Douglas Wilder, Governor of Virginia.
Michigan: Charro Press, Inc., 1991.

Wylie, William N.T. Prospective Sites Relating to Black History in Canada.
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, June 1994.

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Yates, Elizabeth. Amos Fortune Free Man. Illustrated by Nora S. Unwin.
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1950. Children's Book.

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Zagoren, Ruby. Venture for Freedom. Illustrated by Ann Grifalconi.
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1969. Children's Book.