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Black Fraternal, Social and Civic Institutions:  A Selected Bibliography;  prepared
in celebration of  Black  History Month 2006. Items listed are available through Howard University Libraries and/or the Moorland Spingarn Research Center.

National Association of Colored Women Clubs

Other Black Social & Civic Associations

  • Abramowitz, J. (1953). The Negro in the Populist Movement. The Journal of Negro History, 38, 3, 257-289.
  • Autrey, D. (1997). Can These Bones Live?: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Alabama, 1918-1930. The Journal of Negro History, 82, 1, 1-12.
  • Boylan, A. M. (1984). Women in Groups: An Analysis of Women's Benevolent Organizations in New York and Boston, 1797-1840. The Journal of American History, 71,  3,  497-523.
  • Brown, R. C. (1949). The Health Education Programs of Government and Voluntary Agencies
    The Journal of Negro Education,18, 3, The Health Status and Health Education of Negroes in the United States, 377-387.
  • Brown, R. Khari. (2003). Faith and Works: Church-Based Social Capital Resources and African American Political Activism. Social Forces, 82, 2, 617-641.
  • Bunche, R. J. (1939). The Programs of Organizations Devoted to the Improvement of the Status of the American Negro. The Journal of Negro Education,  8, 3, 539-550.
  • Carson, E. D. (1993).   A hand up: black philanthropy and self-help in America.  Washington, D.C. : Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Press.  HV3181 .C38 1993
  • Consolidated Parent Group, Inc. Records, 1947-1954
    2.5 linear ft.
    Washington, D.C. based civic organization. Consists of organization materials, reports, minutes, community activities manuscripts, and printed material relating to members and to the Women's Action Committee.     Moorland Spingarn Research Center. Manuscript Division.
  • Feldman, L. B. (1999). A sense of place: Birmingham's Black middle-class community, 1890-1930. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. F334.B69 N437 1999
  • Cott, N. F. (1984). Feminist Politics in the 1920s: The National Woman's Party. The Journal of American History, 71, 1, 43-68.
  • Davis, B. J., &Morris, E. H. (1916). The Georgia Odd Fellows. Crisis, 12, 91-92.
  • Fine, E. C. (2003). Soulstepping: African American step shows. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. M793.3 F4934 2003.
  • Finnie, G. E. (1969). The Antislavery Movement in the Upper South Before 1840. The Journal of Southern History, 35, 3, 319-342.
  • Freeman, J. (1973). The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement. The American Journal of Sociology, 78, 4,  792-811.
  • Gliozzo, C. A. (1972). John Jones and the Black Convention Movement, 1848-1856. Journal of Black Studies, 3, 2, 227-236.
  • Graham, L. O. (2000). Our kind of people: inside America's Black upper class. New York : HarperPerennial. E185.86 .G644 2000
  • Gregory, S. T. (Ed.). (1999). A legacy of dreams: the life and contributions of Dr. William Venoid Banks. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. E185.97.B217 L44 1999
  • Gordon, L. (1991). Black and White Visions of Welfare: Women's Welfare Activism, 1890-1945. The Journal of American History, 78, 2, 559-590.
  • Guzman, J. P. (1984). Crusade for civic democracy : the story of the Tuskegee Civic Association, 1941-1970. New York : Vantage Press. F334 T96 G88 1984.
  • Hamilton, D.C., &  Hamilton, C. V. (1992).  The Dual Agenda of African American Organizations since the New Deal: Social Welfare Policies and Civil Rights. Political Science Quarterly, 107,  3,  435-452.
  • Harley, S. (1982). Beyond the Classroom: The Organizational Lives of Black Female Educators in the District of Columbia, 1890-1930. The Journal of Negro Education, 51, 3, 254-265.
  • Harris, F. C. (1999). Something within: religion in African-American political activism. New York: Oxford University Press. BR563.N4 H368 1999
  • Hoffman, E. D.(1959). The Genesis of the Modern Movement for Equal Rights in South Carolina, 1930-1939. The Journal of Negro History, 44,  4, 346-369.
  • Hollingsworth Wood, L. (1924). The Urban League Movement. The Journal of Negro History, 9, 2, 117-126.
  • Holmes, W. F. (1975). The Demise of the Colored Farmers' Alliance. The Journal of Southern History,  41,  2 ,187-200.
  • Horton, J. O., & Horton, L. E. (1999). Black Bostonians: family life and community struggle in the antebellum North. New York: Holmes & Meier. F73.9.N4 H67 1999
  • Jewell, K. S. (1985). Will the Real Black, Afro-American, Mixed, Colored, Negro Please Stand Up?: Impact of the Black Social Movement, Twenty Years Later. Journal of Black Studies, 16, 1, 57-75.
  • Johnson, A. E. (1975). The National Association of Black Social Workers: structural and functional assessment by leaders and members. Denver, CO: NABSW.
  • Johnson III, O. A., & Stanford, K. L., (Eds.). (2002). Black political organizations in the post-civil rights era.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. E185.615 .B5465 2002.
  • Judson, S. M. (1999). Civil Rights and Civic Health: African American Women's Public Health Work in Early Twentieth Century Atlanta. NWSA Journal, 11, 3, 93-111.
  • Kessler, S. H. (1952). The Organization of Negroes in the Knights of Labor The Journal of Negro History, 37, 3,  248-276.
  • Kimbrough, W. M. (2003). Black Greek 101: the culture, customs and challenges of Black fraternities and sororities. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. M371.85 K5695 2003
  • Kimbrough>, W. M. Self-Assessment, Participation, and Value of Leadership Skills, Activities, and Experiences for Black Students Relative to Their Membership in Historically Black Fraternities and Sororities. The Journal of Negro Education, 64, 1.
  • Knupfer, A. M.  (1997). "If You Can't Push, Pull, if You Can't Pull, Please Get Out of the Way": The Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home in Chicago, 1896 to 1920. The Journal of Negro History, 82, 2,  221-231.
  • Lang, C. (2004). Between Civil Rights and Black Power in the Gateway City: The Action Committee to Improve Opportunities for Negroes (ACTION), 1964-75. Journal of Social History, 37, 3, 725-754.
  • Ling, P. J., &  Monteith, S. (Eds.). (2004). Gender and the civil rights movement. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. E185.61 .G284 2004
  •  Meier, A. (1963). Negro Protest Movements and Organizations. The Journal of Negro Education, 32, 4, 437-450.
  • Menchan, W. M. (1945). Adult Education Programs of Negro Parent-Teacher Associations
    The Journal of Negro Education,14, 3, 412-417.
  • Middleton, E. J.  The Louisiana Education Association, 1901-1970. The Journal of Negro Education, 47, 4, 363-378.
  • Miller, C. L. (1943). The Negro and Volunteer War Agencies. The Journal of Negro Education, 12, 3, 438-451.
  • Moore, Jr., J. T. (1981). A search for equality: the National Urban League, 1910-1961. University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press. E185.61 M784
  • Muraskin, W. A.(1975). Middle-class Blacks in a white society : Prince Hall Freemasonry in America. Berkeley: University of California Press. HS883 .M87 1975 
  • Myers, J. L.(1967). American Antislavery Society Agents and the Free Negro, 1833-1838. The Journal of Negro History, 52, 3, 200-219.
  • Nuwer, H. (2001). Wrongs of passage: fraternities, sororities, hazing and binge drinking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. M371.85 N9794 2001.
  • Ovington, M. W. (1924). The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.  
    The Journal of Negro History, 9, 2, 107-116.
  • Parris, G., & Brooks, L. (1971). Blacks in the city; a history of the National Urban League. Boston: Little, Brown. E185.5 N33 P3 
  • Perlman, D. (1971). Organizations of the Free Negro in New York City, 1800-1860.
    The Journal of Negro History, 56, 3,181-197.
  • Pitre, M. (1999). In struggle against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957. College Station : Texas A&M University Press. F391.W575 P58 1999 
  • Pollard, W. L. (1978). A study of Black self help. San Francisco: R & E Research Associates. HV3181 P64 
  • Preston, Jr., E. D. (1933). The Genesis of the Underground Railroad. The Journal of Negro History,18, 2, 144-170.
  • Ransby, B. (2003). Ella Baker & the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. E185.97.B214 R36 2003
  • Record, W. (1955), Negro Intellectuals and Negro Movements: Some Methodological Notes
    The Journal of Negro Education, 24,  2, 106-112.
  • Ross, E. L. (Ed.). (1978) Black heritage in social welfare, 1860-1930. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. HV3181 B55
  • Rouse, J. A. (1984) The Legacy of Community Organizing: Lugenia Burns Hope and the Neighborhood Union The Journal of Negro History, 69,  3/4, 114-133.
  • Schechter, P. A. (2003). Introduction to the project. Journal of Women's History, 15, 3,  166-174.
  • Scott, A. F.(1990). Most Invisible of All: Black Women's Voluntary Associations. The Journal of Southern History, 56, 1, 3-22.
  • Silverman, R. M. (Ed.). (2004). Community-based organizations: the intersection of social capital and local context in contemporary urban society.  Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. HN90.C6 C645 2004 
  • Spriggs, W. E. (1979). The Virginia Colored Farmers' Alliance: A Case Study of Race and Class Identity. The Journal of Negro History, 64, 3, 191-204.
  • Stavney, A.  ( 1998) "Mothers of Tomorrow": The New Negro Renaissance and the Politics of Maternal Representation.  African American Review, 32,  4, 533-561.
  • Strickland, A. E. (2001).  History of the Chicago Urban League. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. F548.9.N4 S85 2001

    Sumler-Lewis, J. (1981). The Forten-Purvis Women of Philadelphia and the American Anti-Slavery Crusade The Journal of Negro History, 66, 4,  281-288.
  • Ware, G. (1994). The NAACP-Inc. Fund Alliance: Its Strategy, Power, and Destruction
    The Journal of Negro Education, 63, 3, 323-335.

    Weaver, R. C. (1960). The NAACP Today. The Journal of Negro Education, 29, 4,  421-425.
  •  Wedin, C. (1998). Inheritors of the spirit : Mary White Ovington and the founding of the NAACP. New York: Wiley. E185.98.O95 W44 1998
  • Weiss, N. J. (1974). The National Urban League, 1910-1940. New York, Oxford University Press. E185.5 N33 W44
  • Wesley, C. H. (1977).  Henry Arthur Callis: life and legacy. Chicago : Foundation Publishers. R154 C22 W47 
  • Wesley, C. H. (1939). The Negroes of New York in the Emancipation Movement.  The Journal of Negro History, 24, 1, 65-103.
  • Whitaker, M. C.(2000). The Rise of Black Phoenix: African-American Migration, Settlement and Community Development in Maricopa County, Arizona 1868-1930. The Journal of Negro History, 85, 3, 197-209.
  • Williams, L. J. (1980). Black Freemasonry and middle-class realities. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. HS883 W54 
  •  Worley, H. F., & Contee, C. G. (1970). The Worley Report on the Pan-African Congress of 1919. The Journal of Negro History, 55, 140-143.
  • Wright, M. T. (1944). Educational Programs for the Improvement of Race Relations: Negro Advancement Organizations. The Journal of Negro Education, 13, 3, 349-360.
  • Yearwood, L. (1978). National Afro-American Organizations in Urban Communities. Journal of Black Studies, 8,  4, 423-438.
  • Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Black women's Movement

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity

  • Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. (1930). Constitution and by-laws of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. n.p: n.p.
  • Mason, H. (1999).The talented tenth:  the founders and presidents of Alpha. Winter Park, FL:  Four-G Publishers. LJ121.A55 M37 1999
  • Alpha Phi Alpha. (1922). Crisis, 23, 218.
  • Alpha Phi Alpha. (1926). Crisis, 31, 243.
  • Alpha Phi Alpha.(1924). Opportunity, 2, 63.
  • Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
  • Sphinx: The official organ of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. (1917). Norfolk, VA: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. vols. 1917-1925, 1927-1933.
  • Wesley, C. H. (1935). The history of Alpha Phi Alpha: a development in Negro college life. Washington, DC: Foundation Publishers, Howard University. M371.85 W51 1935

Other Black Fraternities & Sororities

  • Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. (1935). Opportunity, 13, 60.
  • Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. (1925). Opportunity, 3, 221.
  • Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. (1925). Opportunity, 3, 387.
  • Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. (1925). Opportunity, 3, 23-64.
  • Black fraternities and sororities [video-recording] : a glorious past, the road ahead. Fairfax, Va. : Cox, Matthews, & Associates, 1990. LC2781 .B52 1990 VHS 
  • A Brief history of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (1997). Black Issues in Higher Education 14:8.
  • Brown, T. L.,  Parks, G. S., & Phillips, C. M. (Eds.). African American fraternities and sororities : the legacy and the vision. (2005).  Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky .LJ31 .A47 2005
  • Burns, K., (Ed.). (2004). Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity: a century. New York: Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity. M371.85 Si254 2004
  • Camp, B. J. &, Kent, O. (2004). "What a Mighty Power We Can Be": Individual and Collective Identity in African American and White Fraternal Initiation Rituals. Social Science History 28.3,  439-483.
  • Crump, W. L. (1991). The story of Kappa Alpha Psi: a history of the beginning and development a college Greek letter organization, 1911-1991. Philadelphia, PA: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. M371.85 C888 1991
  • The Delta: Special 1973 pre-convention issue. (1973). Washington, D.C. Delta Sigma Theta Inc.
  • Edmonds, R. (1939). Fraternities at the crossroads. Crisis, 46, 10, 301-302, 315-316.
  • Evans, S. Y. (2004). Black Greek-Lettered Organizations And Civic Responsibility. Black Issues in Higher Education,  21, 17, 98-98.Fraternities and Sororities. (1925). Opportunity, 3, 48-50.
  • Garvin, C. H. (1913). The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Crisis, 5, 196.
  • Goffe, L. (2002). Society: Blue-Blood Brothers. Savoy 2, 10, 104-106, 108.
  • Graebner, W. (1987). Outlawing Teenage Populism: The Campaign against Secret Societies in the American High School, 1900-1960. The Journal of American History, 74, 2, 411-435
  • Green, E. K. (1959). A history of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, 1929-1958. Washington, DC: Iota Phi Lambda Sorority. M366 G83
  • Hocker, C. (1969). A comparison of the racial ideology and authoritarianism of students who pledge Greek letter organizations and independents. Washington, DC: Howard University. M378.242 E H659 1969
  • Hueston, W. C. (1927). A forward step in fraternalism. Crisis, 34, 149,150,170.
  • Hutcheson, P. A. &, Kimbrough, W. M. ( 1998). The impact of membership in Black Greek-letter organizations on black students' involvement in collegiate activities and their development of leadership skills. The Journal of Negro Education 67, 2 96-105.
  • Jackson, J. A. (1939). Fraternal societies and race progress. Crisis, 45, 7, 235-237, 244.
  • Jones, R. L. (2004). Black haze: violence, sacrifice, and manhood in Black Greek-letter fraternities. Albany: State University of New York Press. LJ51 .J66 2004
  • Kapos, A. (1952). Some individual and group determinants of fraternity attitudes toward the admission of certain minority groups. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. Microfilm M450
  • Kimbrough, W. M. (2003). Black Greek 101: the culture, customs, and challenges of Black fraternities and sororities. Madison Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. LJ51 .K56 2003.in
  • Liazos, A. &, Ganz, M. (2004). Duty to the Race: African American Fraternal Orders and the Legal Defense of the Right to Organize. Social Science History 28.3, 485-534.
  • Logan, R. W. (1950). 50 years of progress in Greek letter societies. Pittsburgh, PA: Pitts Courier Co. M973.9 F46 no. 12.
  • Malone, J. (1996).  Steppin' on the blues: the visible rhythms of African American dance. Urbana : University of Illinois Press. GV1624.7.A34 M35 1996 
  • Negro collegiate Organizations.(1923).  Opportunity, 1, 26.
  • Nuwer, H. (2001). Wrongs of passage : fraternities, sororities, hazing, and binge drinking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.  M371.85 N9794 2001
  • The Oracle: the official organ of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. ( ) Philadelphia, PA:
  • Parker, W. M. (1975). The effectiveness of a race relations communications program with black and white fraternity pledges. Gainesville, FL.  Microfilm 1496
  • Partridge, D. C. (1974). Adult Education Projects Sponsored by Negro College Fraternities and Sororities. The Journal of Negro Education, 14,  3. 374-380
  • Peters, J. J., Wilson, C. R., & Crump, W. L. (1967). The story of Kappa Alpha Psi, a history of the beginning and development of a college Greek letter organization 1911-1961. Philadelphia: Kappa Alpha Psi. M371.85 P442
  • Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. (1920). Crisis, 20, 194.
  • Robbins, A. (2004). Pledged : the secret life of sororities. New York: Hyperion.  LJ51 .R63 2004
  • Romer, A. S. ( ). The color line in fraternities.M371.85 R66
  • Ross, Jr., L. C  (2000). The divine nine : the history of African American fraternities and sororities. New York, NY: Kensington Books. LC2781.7 .R68 2000
  • Ruffins, P. (1997).  Frat-ricide. Black Issues in Higher Education 14:8.
  • Ruffins, P. (2004). Looking Toward The Future. Black Issues in Higher Education 21, 9,  78-81.
  • Ruffins, P. (2001).  Noteworthy News: Spring Ushers in a Bloody Hazing Season for Black Frats. Black Issues in Higher Education 18, 5, 12.
  • Serious Greek letter societies. (1941). Crisis, 48, 2,39.
  • Sims, S. B. (1978). A history of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority 1959-1969. [n.p.]: Iota Phi Lambda Sorority. M366 G83h
  • Skocpol, T. &, Oser, J. L. (2004). Organization despite Adversity: The Origins and Development of African American Fraternal Associations. Social Science History 28.3, 367-437.
  • Sororities. (1930). Opportunity, 8, 251.
  • Trotter, Joe William, 1945- (2004) African American Fraternal Organizations in American History: An Introduction. Social Science History, 28, 3, 355-366.
  • Wesley, C. H. (1969). History of Sigma Pi Phi: first of the Negro-American Greek letter fraternities. Washington, DC: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. M371.85 W51h 1969.
  • White, P. S. (1974). Behind these doors - a legacy: the history of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority. Chicago: Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority. M371.85 W585.
  • African American Fraternities and Sororities
  • Black Fraternity Directory
  • Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Black Sororities.

 
 
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