Includes: prints, photographs, books, broadsides, posters, and newspaper-clippings.
Abrahams, Roger D. Deep down in the jungle ...: Negro narrative folklore from the streets of Philadelphia. Hatboro, Pa.: Folklore Associates, 1964.
Anderson, Elijah. Code of the street: decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
Ballard, Allen B. One more day's journey: the story of a family and a people. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.
Blockson, Charles L. Philadelphia's guide: African-American state historical markers. Philadelphia, Pa. : Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, 1992.
_______________. African Americans in Pennsylvania: A history and guide. Baltimore, Md. Black Classic Press, 1994.
________________. African Americans in Pennsylvania: above ground and underground, an illustrated guide. Harrisburg, Pa. : RB Books, 2001.
Philadelphia African-Americans: color, class and style, 1840-1940; an exhibition in the museum of the balch institute for ethnic studies, July 4-July 9, 1988. Philadelphia, Pa.: The Institute, 1988.
Bowser, Charles W. Let the bunker burn. Philadelphia, Pa.: Camino Books, 1989.
Brown, G. Gordon. Law administration and Negro-white relations in Philadelphia: A study in race relations. Philadelphia, Pa.: Bureau of Municipal Research, 1947.
Countryman, Matthew. Up South: civil rights and Black power in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Du Bois, W.E.B. The Philadelphia Negro: A social study. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1899.
Ershkowitz, Miriam and Joseph Zikmund, eds. Black politics in Philadelphia. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Fauset, Arthur Huff. Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro religious cults of the urban north. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944.
Lane, Roger. Roots of violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Lane, Roger. William Dorsey's Philadelphia and ours: on the past and future of the Black city in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
McBride, David. Integrating the City of medicine: Blacks in Philadelphia health care, 1910-1965. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1989.
Nash, Gary B. Forging freedom: the formation of Philadelphia's Black community, 1720-1840. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Nelson, H. Viscount. Black leadership's response to the Great Depression in Philadelphia. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
Powell, J. H. Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949.
Rankin-Hill, Lesley M. A biohistory of 19th-century Afro-Americans: the burial remains of a Philadelphia cemetery. Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey, 1997.
Saunder, John A. 100 Years After Emancipation: History of the Philadelphia Negro, 1787 to 1963. Philadelphia, Pa.: Free African Society, [1964?]
Trotter, Joe William, Jr. and Eric Ledell Smith , eds. African Americans in Pennsylvania: shifting historical perspectives. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
Willis, Arthur C. Cecil's City: A history of Blacks in Philadelphia, 1638-1979. New York : Carlton Press, 1990.
Willson, Joseph. The elite of our people: Joseph Willson's sketches of Black upper-class life in antebellum Philadelphia. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
Winch, Julie. Philadelphia's Black elite: activism, accommodation, and the struggle for autonomy, 1787-1848. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1988.
Wolfinger, James. Philadelphia Divided: race and politics in the city of brotherly love.Chapel Hill, N.C., 2007.
Natalie Hinderas Collection: photographs, correspondence, writings, diaries and printed materials.
John W. Mosley Photograph Collection: photograph prints and negatives of notable Black entertainers, social and political personalities, and general social life of Pennsylvania's African-Americans.
Bishop Richard Robert Wright, Jr. Collection: brochures, books, letters, magazines, broadsides, scrapbooks, photgraphs, film strips and more.
Alpha Boule Collection (Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity): contains rituals and ceremonies, reports, photographs, correspondence, programs and announcements.
Sara R. Isaac Collection of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Philadelphia: includes correspondence, UNIA dues cards, minutes, proceedings and a photograph of Ms. Isaac.
William Still Collection: includes photographs and correspondence.
A.M.E. Church Collection and other denominations: contains annual reports, minutes, journals, quarterly reviews and The Christian Recorder publication.
Migration Series: audio tapes/oral histories- interviews with African-American individuals and/or families who have migrated to Philadelphia during or after the Great Migration.
African American Museum in Philadelphia
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Library Company of Philadelphia
Marian Anderson Collections (University of Pennsylvania)
Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church
Urban Archives (Temple University Libraries)
Philadellphia New Observer -- weekly - Wednesday.
Philadelphia Sunday -- weekly - Sunday.
Philadelphia Tribune -- bi-weekly - Tuesday & Friday.
