Anderson, H. Obert (Mr. & Mrs.). “Register of Slaves (Indentures) and Emancipation of Slaves.” Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly 10:1 (Spring 1978). Call # F536.I177 (2nd floor open shelf). Gallatin County records beginning 1814. Series continues in the three subsequent issues of this volume.
Brasfield, Curtis G. The Ancestry of Mayor Harold Washington (1922-1987). Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1993. Call # fCS71.W318 1993.
Chavers-Wright, Madrue. The Guarantee. P.W. Chavers: Banker, Entrepeneur, Philanthropist in Chicago’s Black Belt of the Twenties. New York: Wright-Armistead, 1985. Call # HG2463.C48C48 1985. May provide useful historical context for Chicago’s early twentieth century black belt, as well as information on the Chavers family. Related families: Baker, Bannister, Calloway and Pannell.
Chicago Edition Black’s Blue Book (1923-1924). Call # F89621.N31
Colored People’s Blue Book and Business Directory of Chicago, Illinois 1905. Chicago: Celebrity, 1905. Call # F89621.N318.
Eisenberg, Marcia. “Blacks in the 1850 Federal Census, City of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.” JAAHGS beginning 6:1 (Spring 1985). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
Furgal, Suzanne Kersten. “Blacks in the First and Second Wards of Chicago, Illinois as Found in the 1860 Federal Census.” JAAHGS 6:# (Fall 1985). Call #: CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
-----.“Black and Mulattoes in the 1860 Federal Census: City of Chicago, Third and Fourth Wards.” JAAHGS 8:2 (Summer 1987). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
-----.“Blacks and Mulattoes in Wards Eight, Nine and Ten of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.” JAAHGS 6:3 (Fall 1985). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
Grossman, James. Land of Hope. Chicago, Black Southerners and the Great Migration. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1989. Call # F548.9.N4G76 1989. Provides important historical context for any genealogist working with African American migration to Chicago in the early twentieth century.
History of Altgeld Gardens, 1944-1960. [Chicago?]: Altgeld-Carver Alumni Association, 1993. Call # fF548.68.A48 H57 1993.
Husband, Lori. Chicago World War I Draftees: Districts 3,4,5 and 70. Oak Forest, Illinois: Husband, 1990. Call # fF547.C7H87 1990.
Deaths in the Chicago Defender 1910-1920. Park Forest, Illinois: Husband, 1990. Call # fF548.5.H87 1990.
Muelder, Hermann R. A Hero Come Home from War: Among the Black Citizens of Galesburg, Illinois, 1860-1880. Galesburg, Illinois: Knox College Library, 1987. Call # fF549.G15M84. Focuses on community spokesman Joseph Barquet and other veterans of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Muirhead, John W. A History of Amrican-Americans in McLean County, Illinois, 1835-1975. Bloomington, IL: Bloomington-Normal Black History Project, McLean County Historical Society, 1998. Call # Folio F547. M16 M85 1998.
Pratt, Mildred. We the People Tell Our Story: Bloomington-Normal Black History Project. Normal, Illinois: Bloomington-Normal Black History Project, 1987. Call # fF549.B65W4.
Sanders, Walter R. “The Negro in Montgomery County, Illinois.” Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly 10:1 (Spring 1978). Call # fF536.I177 (2nd floor open shelf).
Sapp, Peggy Lathrop. Madison County Court Records (1813-1818) and Indenture Records 1805-1826, Register of Slaves, Indentured Servants & Free Persons of Color. Springfield, Illinois: Folkworks, 1993. Call # fF547.M2S26 1993.
Stephens, Edythe. African Americans of Edgar Co. Illinois. Call # Folio oF547.E25 A47 1990.
Tregillis, Helen Cox. River Roads to Freedom: Fugitive Slave Notices and Sheriff Notices Found in Illinois Sources. Bowie, Md.: Heritage, 1988. Call # F540.T7 1988.
Williams, Nola Jones. Lincoln School Memories: A History of Blacks in Edwardsville, Illinois. Wheaton, Illinois: Williams, 1986. Call # fLD7501.E48L589. Madison County local history.
Williams, Rick D. “African American Churches in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois: 100 Years Reflecting the Black Church in America.” JAAHGS 12:3/4 (fall/winter 1991). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).