ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS

Bell-Scott, Patricia. Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Janet Sims-Wood, Miriam DeCosta-Willis, and Lucille P. Fultz, editors. Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters, 1991

Cade (Bambara), Toni, ed. The Black Woman: An Anthology. New York: Signet, 1970.

Hurmence, Belinda, ed. Before Freedom: 48 Oral Histories of Former North and South Carolina Slaves. New York: Mentor, 1990

Lerner, Gerda, ed. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York: Pantheon, 1972.

Loewenberg, Bert, and Ruth Bogin, eds. Black Women in 19th Century American Life. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976

Mellon, James, ed. Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988

Perdue, Charles L., Jr., Thomas E. Barden and Robert K. Phillips, ed. Weevils in the Wheat. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976

Sterling, Dorothy, ed. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Norton, 1984

HISTORICAL NARRATIVES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Andrews, William L., ed. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women’s Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. (Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, Julia A. J. Foote)

Bass, Charlotta Spears. Forty Years: Memoirs from the Pages of a Newspaper. Los Angeles: C.A. Bass, 1979 (First published 1960)

Billingsley, Ray A., ed. The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era. New York: Dryden Press, 1953.

Burton, Annie L. Memoirs of Childhood’s Slavery Days. Boston: Ross Publishing, 1909 (Electronic edition online at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996)

Cooper, Anna Julia. A Voice from the South: By a Black Women of the South. Xenia, Ohio: Aldine Printing House, 1892.

Coppin, Fannie Jackson, Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching. Philadelphia: African Episcopal Concern, 1913

DeCosta-Willis, Miriam, ed. The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

Duster, Alfreda, ed. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Gilbert, Olive, comp. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Bondwoman of Olden Time. New York: Arno, 1968. (First published in 1878)

Greene, Frances Whipple, ed. Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1971 (First published 1838)

Gould, Lois Virginia Meacham. Chained to the Rock of Adversity: The Letters that Family and Friends Wrote to Anne and Anna Johnson and the Diary of Katherine Johnson, 1844-1900. (Forthcoming)

Hull, Gloria, ed. Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984.

Humez, Jean McMahon. Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress 1981

Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Edited and with an introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987 (First published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent).

Johnson, Kathryn and Addie Hunton. Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces. New York: G. K. Hall, 1997. (First published 1922).

Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Richardson, Marilyn, ed. Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.

Stewart, Maria. Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart. Boston: W. Lloyd Garrison & Knapp, 1832.

Taylor, Susie Baker King. Reminiscences of my Life in Camp with the 33rd U. S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers, 1902. Published as A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs, ed. by Patricia W. Romero with an introduction by Willie Lee Rose. New York: Markus Wiener Publishing, 1988

Terrell, Mary Church. A Colored Woman in a White World. Washington, D. C.: Randsell Publishing Co., 1940

Wilson, Harriet E. Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. Introduction and notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Vintage, 1983. (First published in 1859)

Twentieth-Century Autobiographies

Celebrity Autobiographies

Anderson, Marion. My Lord, What a Morning, 1956

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House, 1969.
---, Gather Together in My Name. New York: Random House, 1974
---, Singing and Swinging like Christmas. New York: Random House, 1976
---, The Heart of a Woman. New York: Bantam Books, 1981.
---, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes. New York: Random House, 1986

Bailey, Pearl. The Raw Pearl. New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1968.

Bailey, Pearl. Talking to Myself. New York, 1971

Bailey, Pearl. Between You and Me. 1989.

Brooks, Gwendolyn. Report from Part One. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972

Carroll, Diahann, with Ross Firestone. Diahann : An Autobiography. Boston : Little, Brown, 1986.

Clifton, Lucille. Generations: A Memoir. 1976

Dunham, Katherine. A Touch of Innocence. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1959

Gibson, Althea, edited by Ed Fitzgerald. I Always Wanted to Be Somebody. New York: Harper, 1958

Gibson, Althea, with Richard Curtis. So Much to Live For. New York: Putnam, 1968

Holiday, Billie and William Dufty. Lady Sings the Blues. 1956

Horne, Lena. Lena. New York: Doubleday, 1965.

Jordan, Barbara and Shely Hearn. Barbara Jordan: Self Portrait.

Jordan, Barbara, with James Haskins. Barbara Jordan. New York: Dial, 1977.

Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, with Sonja Steptoe. A Kind of Grace : the Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete. New York : Warner Books, 1997.

Kitt, Eartha. Alone with Me. 1976

Kitt, Eartha. Confessions of a Sex Kitten. 1991

Lord, Audre. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. Waterton, Mass: Persephone Press, 1982

Lord, Audre. The Cancer Journals. 1980
Makeba, Miriam. My Story. New York: New American Library, 1987.

Ringgold, Faith. We Flew Over the Bridge. Boston: Bullfinch Press, 1995.

Rudolph, Wilma. Wilma. 1977

Smith, Ada (Bricktop) with James Haskins. Bricktop. 1983.

Turner, Tina. What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Walker, Margaret. How I Wrote Jubilee. Old Westbury, N. Y.: Feminist Press, 1972.

Waters, Ethel, with Charles Samuels; new preface by Donald Bogle. His Eye Is on the Sparrow : an Autobiography. New York : Da Capo Press, 1992.

Civil Rights Autobiographies

Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. New York: David McKay, Inc., 1962

Boynton, Amelia. Bridge across Jordan. Revised and expanded edition, Washington, D. C.: Schiller Institute, 1991

Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story. New York: Pantheon, 1993.

Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962.

Clark, Septima Poinsette, Echo in My Soul. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1962

Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. New York: International Publishers, 1988

Evers, Myrlie with William Peters. For Us the Living. Jackson, Mississippi: Banner Books, 1996 (First published 1967)

Kennedy, Florynce. Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976

Garrow, David, ed. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987

Hedgeman, Anna Arnold. The Trumpet Sounds: A Memoir of Negro Leadership. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964.

King, Coretta Scott. My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969.

King, Mary. Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. New York: William Morrow, 1977.

Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Dial Press, 1968

Murray, Pauli. Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.

Murray, Pauli. Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.

Contemporary Autobiographies

Berry, Bertice. Bertice: the World According to Me (l996).

Campbell, Bebe Moore. Sweet Summer: Growing Up with and without My Dad. New York: Putnam, 1989

Cary, Lorene. Black Ice. New York: Knopf, l99l.

Chambers, Veronica. Mama's Girl. New York: Riverhead Press, l996.

Cole, Johnetta. Conversations: Straight Talk with America’s Sister President. New York: Doubleday, 1993.

James, Kay Coles with Jacquelline Cobb Fuller. Never Forget. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992.

Jones, Lisa. Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair. New York: Doubleday, 1994.

Gibson, Aliona L. Nappy: Growing up Black and Female in America. New York: Harlem River Press, l995.

hooks, bell. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (l996)

Lyles, Charlise. Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? (l994).

McClain, Leanita. A Foot in Each World: Essays and Articles by Leanita Mcclain, edited by Clarence Page (l986).

Mazloomian, Kemba Saran. To Dine with the Blameless Ethiopians (l996).

Njeri, Itabari. The Last Plantation: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black (1997).

Walker, Alice. Anything We Love Can Be Saved (l997)

Minnie Choice, four years old, 1876.
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