Madison Area History

African Americans in Madison

Local Civil Rights Organizations | History of African American Experience in Madison (selected materials) | African American Media in Madison

Reading about African Americans:

African American Culture: 2005-2008 (nonfiction)
African American Culture: A Retrospective Reading List to 2004 (nonfiction)
African American Fiction
African American History Month: Videos and DVDs
African American History (children's resources)
Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books (from American Library Association)
African American Bibliography: Books for Children (from Internet School Library Media Center)

Local Civil Rights Organizations

Civil Rights in Madison

History of African American Experience in Madison (selected materials)

Madison's Black Heritage, by Barbara Robinson Shade. Capital Times, May 14, 1979 - May 23, 1979
(eight part series) - view in newspaper clipping files at Central Library in Local Materials Collection pamphet files under heading "Blacks, 1965-" or on microfilm (ask at desk for assistance)

Madison's Negro Population: a Report Made for the Community Welfare Council of Madison, National Urban League, 1966.

Negro Community in South Madison. School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin. 1966.

Negro Housing in Madison. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Madison Branch. 1957.

Newspaper clipping files at Central Library in Local Materials Collection pamphet files under heading "Blacks, 1965-" or on microfilm (ask at desk for assistance); see also clipping files on individual African American leaders, business owners, artists, etc. in the Dane County area

Report to the Madison Community Foundation: Changing Demographics and the African American Experience in Dane County. David Webster. The Foundation, 1995.

The State of Black Madison 2008: Before the Tipping Point. Urban League of Greater Madison, 2008.

Wisconsin Heritage Online
Provides keyword searching for Blacks, African Americans, Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin.

Featured Resource:

Black Student Protest
Student unrest at the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison had become a common activity leading up to February 1969. The black student protest of February 1969 was the largest mass student action up to that time, involving as many as eight to ten thousand demonstrators at a time. The unrest lasted for over a period of three weeks. The protests often turned violent with considerable property damage on and off campus. View an archive of articles from the Wisconsin State Journal during the winter and spring of 1969. Page developed by Ron Larson of the Wisconsin State Journal.

African American Media in Madison

Capital City HUES: a bi-weekly, multicultural newspaper covering the Madison community
Web site | Archived copies at the Central Library (May 3, 2006 to present)

Madison Times: a weekly newspaper covering the Madison African American community
Web site | Archived copies at the Central Library (May 20, 1994)

Umoja Magazine: a monthly schedule of events targeting Madison's African American community
Web site | Archived copies at the Central Library (December 1992 - present), two years of archives at Hawthorne and South Madison Branches

Selected Reference Books

African American Lives. ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Oxford, 2004. Find at Central (Reference) Library; Pinney, Sequoya, and South Madison Branches; call number *920.009296073 Ar83a

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 2nd ed. 5 vols. ed. by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford, 2005. Find at Central Library (Reference); First edition: at Central Library; call number *960.03 Af83a

Black Women in America, 2nd ed. ed. by Darlene Clark Hine. Oxford, 2005. Find at Central Library (Reference); call number *305.48896073 B561b2

Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, 5 vols. ed. by Jack Salzman, etc. MacMillan Library Reference, 1996. Find at Central Library (Reference); call number *973.0496073003 En19e

Oxford Companion to African American Literature. ed. by William Andrews, etc. Oxford, 1997. Find at Central Library (Reference); call number *810.80896073 Ox2o

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Aberjani, and Sanfra L. West. Facts on File, 2003. Find at Lakeview Library; call number 810.989607307471009042 Ab13o

African Americans in Science, Math and Invention. by Ray Spangenburg. Facts on File, 2003. Find at South Madison Library (Reference); call number *509.2273 Sp23a SMB

Norton Anthology of African American Literature. ed. by Nellie Mckay and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. W.W. Norton, 1997. Find at All Libraries except Hawthorne; call number 810.80896073 N821n

Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995. ed. by Deborah Gillan Straub. Gale, 1996. Find at Central Library (Reference); call number *815.00890920693 V87v

Notable Black American Men. ed. by. Jessie Carey Smith. Gale, 1999. Find at Central Library and Alicia Ashman Library (Reference); call number *920.7208996073 N843n

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