CULANTH 332S/AAAS 341S: Race and Place in Durham: Getting Started

DuBois, W.E.B.  “The Upbuilding of Black Durham.”

• Quick, Oliver B. Milestones Along the Color Line: A Souvenir of Durham, N.C., Showing the Progress of a Race.
  Illustrations of buildings owned by members of Durham's African-American community during 1920s.
  Special Collections 2nd 89:G-H Box 30 (part of the Southgate-Jones Family Papers; preservation photocopy available).
  Also, Special Collections Pam. Coll. 13483.

• Redburn, Francis Stevens. Protest and Policy in Durham, North Carolina.
  An analysis of the Civil Rights movement in 1960s Durham.
  Perkins/Bostock Library E185.93.N6 R433 1971a.

• Roberts, Claudia P. Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory.
  Durham: City of Durham, 1982.
  Building-by-building history of Durham and of its architecture.
  Perkins/Bostock Library Permanent Reserve F255 .B769 1982

• Weare, Walter B. Black Business in the New South: a Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company.
  Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
  Traces the history of Durham's most prominent African-American business, 1898-1960s.
  Perkins/Bostock Library HG8963.N9553 W4 1993. Also Special Collections.

• Wilkinson, Edith Lewis. Pattern of Negro Segregation in Durham, North Carolina.
  Looks at institutions such as hospitals, schools, and hotels in an age of segregation.
  University Archives A.M. W686P 1950.

• Wise, James E. Durham: A Bull City Story.
  Charleston: Arcadia, 2002.
  History of Durham from its beginning to the 1990s, told through stories and first-hand accounts.
  Perkins/Bostock Library F264.D87 W574 2002

• Anderson, Jean Bradley. Durham County.
  Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
  History of the county and city from the 1740s to the 1980s. This is the most recent thorough history of the county.
  Print: Perkins/Bostock Library/Reference F262.D8 A63 2011
  E-book

• Boyd, William Kenneth. The Story of Durham: City of the New South.
  Durham: Duke University Press, 1925.
  Classic history of Durham by a Duke history professor.
  Perkins/Bostock Library F264.D9 B8 1925

• Brown, Leslie. Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South
  Durham in the Jim Crow era.
  Perkins/Bostock Library F264.D9 B83 2008
  E-Book

• Cannon, Robert. The Organization and Growth of Black Political Participation in Durham, North Carolina, 1933-1958.
  Perkins Microfilm M5241s.

• Dula, W.C. and A.C. Simpson. Durham and Her People: Combining History and Who's Who in Durham of 1949 and 1950.
  Durham: Citizens Press, 1951.  History of Durham from 1885-1950, including photographs and a detailed index.
  Perkins/Bostock Library F264.D9 D85 1951

• Greene, Christina. Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina. 
  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
  Community study of several generations of black and white women who shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham.
  Perkins/Bostock Library F264.D9 G74 2005

• Houck, Thomas H. A Newspaper History of Race Relations in Durham, North Carolina, 1910-1940.
  University Archives Theses A.M. H835 1941.

• Howard, Chris D. Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: The Black Struggle for Civic Equality in Durham, North Carolina, 1954-1963.
  Honors paper in History, Duke University.
  University Archives 904 D877, 1983-HO

• Kostyu, Joel A. and Frank A. Kostyu. Durham: a Pictorial History.
  Norfolk, Va.: Donning, 1978.
  Over 350 photographs of Durham.
  Perkins/Bostock Library F264.D9 K67 1978

Linda Daniel
Duke University Libraries
Librarian for Sociology and Cultural Anthropology
Email: linda.daniel@duke.edu

Brooke Guthrie
Research Services Coordinator
Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Amy McDonald
Assistant University Archivist
Duke University Archives (Rubenstein Library)
Email: amy.mcdonald@duke.edu

• History Beneath our Feet
• Mural Map of Durham
• African American Heritage Guide
• Parrish Street Historical Markers
• Durham Civil Rights Map
• Durham Schools