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Banneker, Benjamin. Benjamin Bannaker's [sic] Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia
Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1795. Philadelphia: William Gibbons, 1794.
Benjamin Banneker, an astronomer, scientist, and surveyor and designer of
Washington, D.C., wrote these rare almanac and reference books. Included in the
almanacs are portraits of Banneker, and his predictions for the coming year.
Call Number: Special Collections AY 286.B36 1795
Chase, Hal Scripps. ‘Honey for Friends, Stings for Enemies’: William Calvin Chase and ‘The
Washington Bee,’ 1882-1921. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1973.
William Calvin Chase, editor of Washington’s African American newspaper, and the
paper itself serve as the focus of this study.
Call Number: Special Collections PN 4874.C465 C42 1973a
Douglass, Frederick. Letter. Washington, D.C.: to B.F. Underwood, May 9, 1884.
Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist and orator, wrote this letter to B.F.
Underwood. In it he writes about his autobiography.
Call Number: Special Collections W. Lloyd Wright Papers, MS2075, Series 1,
Box 2, Folder 4
Duke Ellington’s Washington [videorecording]. Bethesda, Md.: Hedrick Smith Productions,
2000.
Duke Ellington, Washington’s Native Son, is the focal point of this sketch of the early
20th century Washington, D.C. African American community.
Call Number: Special Collections Video Recording VRC 3015
Fauntroy (Walter E.) Papers.
This manuscript collection is an excellent resource for information on the Civil Rights
Movement, Washington, D.C. politics, and African American participation in city and
federal government, urban renewal efforts and international affairs.
Call Number: Special Collections MS2070
Goggin, Jacqueline. Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History. Baton Rouge, LA:
Louisiana State University Press, 1993.
This intellectual biography of the “Father of Negro History” explores his founding of
the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and his use of scholarship to
influence social and cultural change.
Call Number: Special Collections E 175.5.W65 G64 1993