Library of Black History
Below is a list of books that cover the History of the Buffalo Soldiers, Native Americans, and Africian Americans impact during the forming of the Western Frontier....
The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West (Paperback)
by William H. Leckie (Author) "NEGRO TROOPS marched in the ranks of Washington's armies in the cause of independence and they served with Andrew Jackson at New Orleans in 1815..."
Buffalo Soldiers and Officers of the Ninth Cavalry, 1867-1898: Black & White Together (Hardcover)
by Charles L. Kenner (Author)
The Forgotten Heroes: The Story Of The Buffalo Soldiers (Paperback)
by Clinton Cox (Author)
Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor (Hardcover)
by Frank N. Schubert (Author)
Iron Riders: Story of the 1890s Fort Missoula Buffalo Soldier Bicycle Corps (Paperback)
by George Niels Sorensen (Author)
Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African-American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier (Hardcover)
by Arthur T. Burton (Author)
Cathy Williams: From Slave to Buffalo Soldier (Great novels and memoirs of World War I) (Hardcover)
by Phillip Thomas Tucker (Author) "THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF CATHY WILLIAMS'S LIFE FIRST BEGAN IN AN ANcient land across the wide breadth of the Atlantic Ocean, West Africa..."
The Negro In The Civil War (A Da Capo paperback) (Paperback)
by Benjamin Quarles (Author) "TONIGHT we'll sleep in Fort Wagner, said a black soldier, fixing his bayonet and peering into the gathering darkness on Morris Island, South Carolina, in..."
The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865 (Modern War Studies) (Paperback)
by Dudley Taylor Cornish (Author) "Our cry now must be emancipation and arming the slaves..."
Black Southerners in Confederate Armies (Paperback)
by Charles Kelly Barrow (Author) "The problem of arming the slaves was of greater concern to the South, than to the North..."
Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry (Paperback)
by Russell Duncan (Author) "ON THE BOSTON COMMON, Robert Gould Shaw rides his horse in step with his regiment marching southward forever with straight backs, forward eyes, and long..."
A Brave Black Regiment (Paperback)
by Captain Luis F. Emilio (Author) "AT the close of the year 1862, the military situation was discouraging to the supporters of the Federal Government..."
Undying Glory: The Story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment (Scholastic Biography) (Paperback)
by Clinton Cox (Author)
Lay This Laurel (Hardcover)
by Lincoln Kirstein (Compiler), Richard Benson (Author)
Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (Paperback)
by Robert Gould Shaw (Author), Russell Duncan (Editor) "The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 was more than Southern white leaders could tolerate..."
Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy (Hardcover)
by Steven J. Ramold (Author)
The Black Cowboys (African-American Achievers) (Paperback)
by Gina De Angelis (Author)
Black Cowboys of Texas (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No 86) (Hardcover)
by Sara R. Massey (Editor) "Black cowboys in Texas played diverse roles in ranching as it evolved over the period from the early 1700s to the 1990s..."
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States (Paperback)
by William Loren Katz (Author) "We Americans have learned about the development of the west from history books, school texts, novels, movies and TV screens.
The Negro Cowboys (Paperback)
by Philip Durham (Author), Everett L. Jones (Author)
Black People Who Made the Old West (Paperback)
by William Loren Katz (Author)
Black Pioneers: An Untold Story (Hardcover)
by William Loren Katz (Author) "In 1797 famous trailblazer Daniel Boone entered the Ohio Valley and described its "diversity and beauties of nature..."
Black Women of the Old West (Hardcover)
by William Loren Katz (Author) "By the time of the American Revolution, thousands of African-American slaves had escaped to find a refuge among Native American nations from Canada to Florida..."
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage (Paperback)
by William Loren Katz (Author) "Today most Black Indians do not live in the forests or on the broad plains of the U.S..."
The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People (Hardcover)
by KENNETH W. PORTER (Editor)
Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas (Hardcover)
by Kevin Mulroy (Author) "This is the story of a relentless search for freedom..."
Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Paperback)
by Jack D. Forbes (Author) "The meeting of Native Americans and Africans, of people from two great continents of the earth, can be described in many ways..."
Black, Red and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-1907 (Paperback)
by Arthur T. Burton (Author)
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm (Hardcover)
by Gail Lumet Buckley (Author) "BLOODY MASSACRE," screamed the March 12, 1770, issue of the Massachusetts Gazette, Paul Revere's four-color illustrated broadsheet, depicting redcoats with muskets firing into a crowd..."
