• A Southern Road
  Brown, Sterling A. A Southern Road, N.Y., Harcourt Brace, 1932


• Up South
  Adero, Malaika, ed. Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of this Century's African-American Migrations. The New Press, 1993.


• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Bantam Books, 1970

Fiction, Theater & Poetry

• Angelou, Maya.
  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York:
  Bantam Books, 1970
• Bambara, Toni Cade.
  The Salt Eaters. New York: Random House, 1980
• Brooks, Gwendolyn.
  Blacks. Chicago: The David Company, 1945
• Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man, 1952, N.Y. Vantage Books, 1989
• Hansberry, Lorraine.
  Raisin in the Sun [Play]
• Hughes, Langston,
  One Way Ticket, Illustrated by Jacob Lawrence, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948
• The Weary Blues, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948
• Hurston, Zora Neale.
  Their Eyes Were Watching God. 1937. Reprint, Greenwich, Conn.
  Fawcett, 1971
• Lester, Julius. Do Lord Remember Me. New York: Washington Square Press, 1984.
• Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York:
  Alfred A. Knopf, 1977
• Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987
• Sula. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973
• Naylor, Gloria.
  Mama Day. New York: Random House. 1983
• Plump, Sterling D. Blues: The Story Always Untold. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1989
• Rampersad, Arnold, Ed., Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, N.Y. Vintage Classics, 1995
• Toomer, Jean. Cane. 1923. Reprint, New York: Perennial Classic, 1969
• Walker, Alice.
  In Search of Our Mother's Gardens. San Diego: Harcourt Brace
  Jovanovich, 1983
• Walker, Alice.
  The Third Life of Grange Copeland. New York:
  Avon, 1971
• Williams, Samm Art.
  Home [play].
  First produced at Yale University, 1985
• Wright, Richard. Black Boy. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1937
• Native Son. New York: Harper & Row
  Publishers, 1966
• American Hunger.
  New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1977
• Edwin Rosskam, Twelve Million Black Voices, N.Y. Viking Press, 1941

Historical & Cultural Context

• Brown, Sterling A. A Southern Road, N.Y., Harcourt Brace, 1932
• Curry, Constance. Silver Rights, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995
• Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk, 1931, N.Y. Vintage Books, 1990
• Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans. N.Y., Alfred A. Knopf, 1988
• Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction after the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961
• Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Colored People: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1994
• Harrison, Alferdeen B. Piney Woods School: An Oral History. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1982.
• Henderson, George Wylie. Ollie Miss. 1935. Reprint, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988.
• ___________. Jule, 1936. Reprint, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.
• Kotlowitz, Alex. There are no Children Here. New York: Doubleday
• Levine, Lawrence. Black Culture, Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977
• McDaniel, George W. Hearth & Home: Preserving a People's Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.
• McMillen, Neil. Dark Journey: Mississippi in the Era of Jim Crow. University of Illinois Press, 1988.
• Moody, Ann. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Dell, 1992
• Ralph, James R. Northern Protest : Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement. Harvard University Press, 1993.
• Shaw, Nate. All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. New York: Knopf, 1975.
• Stack, Carol B. All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community. New York: Harper and Row, 1974
• Wilson, William Julius. The Truly Disadvantaged. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Black Migration

• Adero, Malaika, ed. Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of this Century's African-American Migrations. The New Press, 1993.
• Ballard, Allan. One More Day's Journey: The Story of a Family and a People. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984
• Borchert, James. Alley Life in Washington, 1850-1970. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980.
• Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The Negro in Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 1922.
• Coles, Robert. When The South Goes North
• Crew, Spencer R. From Field to Factory: The Great Migration, 1915-1940. Smithsonian Institution, 1987 (this is the catalogue to an exhibition that can be viewed at the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.)
• Dennis, Sam Joseph. Black Exodus and White Migration, 1950 to 1970: A Comparative Analysis of Population Movements and Their Relations to Labor and Race Relations. Ph.D. diss., American University, 1984
• Drake, St. Clair and Horace Cayton. Black Metropolis. Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1945 (reprint edition, University of Chicago Press, 1993).
• Fligstein, Neil. Going North: Migration of Blacks and Whites from the South, 1900-1950. New York: Academic Press, 1981
• Goodwin, E. Marvin, Black Migration in America, 1915-1960, Lewiston N.Y., Edwin Mellen Press, 1990
• Gottlieb, Peter. Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916-1930. University of Illinois Press, 1987.
• The Great Migration: An American Story - Paintings by Jacob Lawrence. HarperCollins, 1993.
• Griffin, Farah Jasmine. Who Set You Flowin'? The African-American Migration Narrative. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
• Grossman, James. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners and the Great Migration, University of Chicago Press, 1989.
• Gutman, Herbert G. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Pantheon, 1976
• Hardy, Charles A., III, Race and Opportunity: Black Philadelphia During the Era of the Great Migration, PhD Diss Temple Uiversity, 1989
• Henri, Florette. Black Migration: Movement North, 1900-1920. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1975
• Hirsch, Arnold, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960, second edition. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
• Johnson, Daniel M., and Rex r. Campbell. Black Migration in America: A Social Demographic History. Durham, NC.: Duke University Press, 1981
• Johnson, James H., Jr. Recent African-American Migration Trends in the United States. Urban League Review 14, no.1 (1990): 39-55.
• Kiser, Clyde Vernon. Sea Island to City: A Study of St. Helena Islanders in Harlem and Other Urban Centers. New York: Atheneum, 1967
• Kusmer, Kenneth. A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.
• Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America. Knopf, 1991.
• Marx, Carole. Farewell-We're Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration. Indiana University Press, 1989.
• McHugh, Kevin E. The Black Migration Reversal in the United States. Geographical Review 77, no. 2 (1987): 171-82
• O'Hare, William P., et al. Blacks on the Move: A Decade of Demographic Change. Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Political Studies, 1982
• Osofosky, Gilbert. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto, 1890-1930. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1963.
• Phillips, Kimberly. Alabama North: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45. University of Illinois Press, 1999.
• Robinson, Isaac. Blacks Move Back to the South. American Demographics 8 (June 1986): 40-43
• Scott, Emmett J., comp. "Letters of Negro Migrants of 1916-1918," Journal of Negro History, 4 (July 1919): 290-340.
• Scott, Emmett J. Negro Migration During the War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1920.
• Spear, Allan. Black Chicago: The Making of A Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920. University of Chicago Press, 1967.
• Stack, Carole. Call to Home: African-Americans Reclaim the Rural South. Basic Books, 1996.
• Trotter, Joe W. Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-1945. University of Illinois Press, 1985.
• Trotter, Joe W. The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender. Indiana University Press, 1991.
• Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, ed. Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series, Washington D.C.: The Rappahannock Press, 1993
• Walls, Dwayne E. The Chickenbone Special. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970
• Woodson, Carter G. A Century of Negro Migration. 1918; rept. New York:
  AMS Press, 1970