African American History : WV Colored Orphans' Home

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• Ancella Bickley oral history interview: tape and transcript. Special Collections/Oral history OH 64-675.

• Bickley, A. (Ed.). (1997). Our Mount Vernons: Historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history fo West Virginia. Huntington, WV: The Carter G. Woodson Foundation & the Drinko Academy. Special Collections/West Virginia 975.4 O93.    

• Chambers, S. A. (2004). Buildings of West Virginia. New York: Oxford University Press.   Special Collections/West Virginia NA730.W42 C48 2004. 

• Charleston Daily Mail.

• Charleston Gazette.

• Kyowva Genealogical & Historical Society. (2001). 200th birthday of Cabell County: the bicentennial, 1809-2009. Special Collections/West virginia 929.375442 T974.    

•  Marshall University Special Collections. (2015). Nine photographs of members of the Colored Orphans' Home band.

• Oral History Collection finding aid.  The term oral history generally refers to recorded accounts of historical events and/or experiences.  MU Libraries' Special Collections Department has many recorded oral histories that are indiexed by subject.  Subject terms to look for include (but are not limited to) African Americans, African Americans -- Huntington, WVa., African Americans -- W.Va. 

• West Virginia, State Board of Control. (1912).  Second Biennial Report. Charlestopn, WV: Union Pub. Co.  Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/biennialreportof00west.  This resource is also available through the Hathi Trust and in print form at Marshall University Libraries Special Collections Department.

• Casto, J.E. (2008, September 30). Historic site was orphan home.  The Herald-Dispatch.  Retrieved from http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x890571243/Prestera-Cabell-County-schools-both-hope-to-buy-property.
• Cabell County Schools. (n.d.). West Virginia Colored Orphans' Home.  Retrieved from http://www.cabellschools.com/about/district_history/west_virginia_colored_orphans_home
• Cabell County Schools. (n.d.). West Virginia Colored Orphans' Home.  Retrieved from https://www.cabellschools.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_17437/File/About/about%20district/WVCOH_Full_CRA_Report.pdf
• West Virginia. Legislature of West Virginia, 30th regular session.  (1911).  Establishment of the West Virginia Colored Orphans' Home.  House Bill No. 17, Chapter 24. Retrieved from http://www.wvculture.org/history/africanamericans/wvcoloredorphans01.html.
• West Virginia Division of Culture and History. (n.d.).  Opening of the WV Normal & Indstrial School for Colored Orphans. Time Trail. Retrieved from http://www.wvculture.org/history/timetrl/ttmar.html#0305.  
• West Virginia, State Board of Control. (1912).  Second Biennial Report. Charlestopn, WV: Union Pub. Co.  Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/biennialreportof00west.  This resource is also available through the Hathi Trust and in print form at Marshall University Libraries Special Collections Department.