Marshall University Resources: Books and Dissertations
Bickley, A. R., Marshall University. Drinko Academy, & Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Inc. (1997). Our mount vernons: Historic register listings of sites significant to the black history of West Virginia. Huntington, WV: The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Inc. of Huntington and the Drinko Academy at Marshall University.
Caldwell, A. B., & Trotter, J. (2012). History of the american negro: West virginia edition. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.
Fain, C. M. (2003). The forging of a black community: Huntington, West Virginia, 1870-1900. Ohio State University.
Fain, C. M. (2009). Race, river, and the railroad: Black huntington, west virginia, 1871-1929.
James E. Morrow Library. (1980). A selected bibliography of black heritage materials in the James E. Morrow library, Marshall University, Huntington, west virginia. Huntington, W. Va.: James E. Morrow Library.
Johnson, D. M. (1995). Not a story to be told: Discourse, race, and myth in Huntingon, West Virginia newspapers, 1872 and 1972. . Proquest Dissertations Publishing. PA: University of Pennsylvania.
Lucas, M. L. (2006). African american women's activism in west Virginia.
Posey, T. E. (1934). The negro citizen of west virginia. Institute, W. Va: Press of West Virginia state college.
Rachleff, P. J. (1984). Black labor in the south: Richmond, virginia, 1865-1890. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Rodd, T. W. (2015). Stories from west virginia's civil rights history: A new home for liberty: J.R. Clifford and the carrie williams case. Charleston, West Virginia: Quarrier Press.
Savage, B. L., Shull, C. D., NetLibrary, I., United States. National Park Service, Preservation Press, National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, . . . National Register of Historic Preservation. (1996). African american historic places. New York: Wiley.
Thomas, W., Gilmer, A. E., Bickley, A. R., White-Woods, T., Allen, D., & Hart, D. (2002). American sampler: West virginia's african-american women of distinction. Charleston, WV: Printing Press, Ltd.
Trotter, J. W., & Bickley, A. R. (1991). Honoring our past: Proceedings of the first two conferences on West Virginia's Black history. Charleston, WV: Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History.
Wilkinson, C. (2012). Big band jazz: In black west virginia, 1930-1942. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Woodson, C. G. (1921). Early negro education in west virginia. Institute, WV: West Virginia Collegiate Institute.
Marshall University Resources: Articles
Ailes, J., & Tyler-McGraw, M. (2012). Leaving virginia for liberia: Western virginia emigrants and emancipators. West Virginia History, 6(2), 1-34. doi:10.1353/wvh.2012.0021
Bickley, A. R. (2008). Carter G. Woodson: The West Virginia Connection. Appalachian Heritage, 36(3), 59.
Edge, T. J. (2013). "An arm of god": The early history of the NAACP in charleston, west virginia, 1917 - 1925. West Virginia History, 7(2), 1-32. doi:10.1353/wvh.2013.0027
Fain, C. M. (2007;2008;). Black response to the construction of colored Huntington, West Virginia, during the jim crow era. West Virginia History, 1(2), 1-24. doi:10.1353/wvh.2008.0032
Fain III, C. M. (2011). The African American Experience in Antebellum Cabell County; Virginia/West Virginia, 1810-1865. Ohio Valley History, 11(3), 3–23.
Fain, C. (2011). Early black migration and the post-emancipation black community in cabell county, west virginia, 1865-1871. West Virginia History, 5(2), 29-58. doi:10.1353/wvh.2011.0023
Fones-Wolf, C. T. (2004). A Union Voice for Racial Equality: Miles Stanley and Civil Rights in West Virginia, 1957-68. Journal of Appalachian Studies, 10(1), 111–128.
Inscoe, J. C. (2004). Race and Remembrance in West Virginia: John Henry for a Post-Modern Age. Journal of Appalachian Studies, 10(1/2), 85–94.
Kahrl, A. W. (2008). The political work of leisure: Class, recreation, and african American commemoration at harpers ferry, west virginia, 1881-1931. Journal of Social History, 42(1), 57 77. doi:10.1353/jsh.0.0038
Ratcliffe, M., & Lash, M. (2014). The journey of an african american teacher before and after brown v. board of education. The Journal of Negro Education, 83(3), 327-426. doi:10.7709/jnegroeducation.83.3.0327
Reynolds, C. E. (2015). The rise and fall of west Virginia’s bureau of negro welfare and statistics, 1921 - 1957. West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, 9(1), 1-22. doi:10.1353/wvh.2015.0011
Zappia, C. A. (2011). Labor, Race, and Ethnicity in the West Virginia Mines: Matewan. Journal of American Ethnic History, 30(4), 44–50.
Marshall University Resources: Oral Histories
Anderson, L., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Louise anderson oral history interview.
Bickley, A., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Ancella bickley oral history interview.
Bradshaw, V. G., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Velma G. bradshaw oral history interview.
Carter, P. S., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Pearl swann carter oral history interview.
Casey, F. W., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Florence walker casey oral history interview.
Clarke, V. A., Clarke, B. J., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Verona A. clarke oral history interview.
Chatman, O., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Ottrus chatman oral history interview.
Dillard, E. J., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. E. jane dillard oral history interview.
Elston, M. M., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Mary M. elston oral history interview.
Fleming, E. B., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Eunice burrell fleming oral history interview.
Fleming, V. W., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Vivian williams fleming oral history interview.
Fullen, N. J. P., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Norma jean polley fullen oral history interview.
Guyton, S. H., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Susie H. guyton oral history interview.
Holland, F. H., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Florestine hopkins holland oral history interview.
McCright, A., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Anna McCright oral history interview.
McDaniel, T. W., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Thelma white McDaniel oral history interview.
Miller, E. H., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Edris H. miller oral history interview.
Montgomery, M. F., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Mary F. montgomery oral history interview.
Payne, D. J., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Doris J. payne oral history interview.
Reeler, R. B., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Ruby B. reeler oral history interview.
Robinson, N. S., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Nancie smith robinson oral history interview.
Slaughter, S., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Suzanne slaughter oral history interview.
Snow, M. C., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Mary C. snow oral history interview.
Thomas, F. A., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Fannie ashe thomas oral history interview.
Twyman, V. W., Bickley, A. R., Wicks-Nelson, R., & Marshall University. Oral History of Appalachia Program. Velma W. twyman oral history interview.
Cabell County Public Library: Books
Duckworth, E.S. (1977) A black history of Huntington. 975.4 D
Spurlock, T. Documentation of West Virginia Colored Orphans' Home Cabell County,: an institution for the treatment of crippled children West Virginia. 362.732 SPU
Barksdale, K., & Fones-Wolf, K. (Eds.). (n.d.). West Virginia History: An Open Access Reader. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University. Retrieved from https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/wvhistory/index.html
Biographies of african americans of west virginia (2008). Ann Arbor: ProQuest.
Black in Appalachia/Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project
A brief history of african-americans in west virginia (2008). Ann Arbor: ProQuest.
Timeline of african-american history in west virginia (2008). Ann Arbor: ProQuest.