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-Encyclopedias
-1950's America
Group 1
-African American History
-Chicago History
-Civil Rights Movement
Group 2
-1950's Fashion
-African American Literature
-African Americans in Art, Dance and Music
Group 3
-African American Playwrights and Theater History
-Lorraine Hansberry
-Raisin in the Sun
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
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Author Title Call Number
Bronner, Edwin, The encyclopedia of the American Ref PN 2266 B68
theatre, 1900-1975 / Reference Section
San Diego, Calif. : A. S. Barnes,
c1980.
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica. Ref AE 5 E52 2007
Chicago : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Reference Section
c2007 (Also available online
at Seattle Public
Library website.)
The new Grove dictionary of music and Ref ML 100 N48
musicians / 2001 v.1-29
New York : Grove, 2001. Reference Section
(Also available online
at Cornish Library website.
See Oxford Music Online.)
The Oxford encyclopedia of theatre & Ref PN 2035 O94
performance / 2003
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, Reference Section
2003.
1950's AMERICA
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Author Title Call Number
50's : all-American ads / NC 998.5 A1 F54
Koln : Taschen, c2001. 2001
Book Stacks
Young, William H., The 1950s / E 169.12 Y69 2004
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, Class Reserve
2004.
Schwartz, Richard Alan, The 1950s / E 169.12 S385 2003
New York : Facts On File, c2003. Class Reserve
Dunar, Andrew J. America in the fifties / E 813 D86 2006
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Class Reserve
Press, c2006.
Wills, Charles. America in the 1950s / E 813 W47 2005
New York : Facts On File, c2005. Class Reserve
American decades / Ref E 169.12 A419
Detroit : Gale Research, c1994-c2001. 1994
Reference Section
Kaledin, Eugenia. Daily life in the United States, 1940- E 169 K139 2000
1959 : shifting worlds / Class Reserve
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,
2000.
David Halberstam's the fifties [ VHS HS 160 v.1-6
videorecording] / Request at front desk
New York : History Channel : c1997.
6 videocassettes (390 min.) :
Ep. 1, Fear and The Dream (50 min.)
Post WWII boom, suburbia, American dream,
anti-communism, McCarthyism.
Ep. 2, Selling the American Way (50 min.)
Television, advertising, media control and
influence of media on politics.
Ep. 3, Let’s play house (50 min.)
Tension between traditional gender roles,
the ideal 1950’s family vs. reality.
Ep. 4, A burning desire (50 min.)
Sexual attitudes.
Ep. 5, The beat (50 min.)
Beat generation, rock ‘n’ roll. Literature,
performing arts and popular culture.
Ep. 6 and 7 combined (100 min. total)
The rage within :
Racial discrimination and beginnings of the
civil rights movement.
The road to the Sixties :
Automobile mania, fast food, space race,
Cuban Missile Crisis, beginnings of Vietnam.
Halberstam, David. The fifties / E 169.02 H34 1993
New York : Random House, 1994. Book Stacks
Harris, Nathaniel. The forties and fifties : an CB 426 H37
illustrated history in colour, 1945- Book Stacks
1959 /
London : Macdonald and Co., 1975.
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
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Author Title Call Number
African American history / Ref E 185 A25355
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2006. 2006 v1-3
Reference Section
Lemann, Nicholas. The promised land : the great Black E 185.6 L36 1992
migration and how it changed America / Book Stacks
New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
Harley, Sharon. The timetables of African-American Ref E 185 H295
history : a chronology of the most 1995
important people and events in Reference Section
African-American history /
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995.
CHICAGO HISTORY (GENERAL HISTORY, POLITICS, AND HOUSING ISSUES)
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Author Title Call Number
Grimshaw, William J. Bitter fruit : Black politics and the F 548.9 N4 G73
Chicago machine, 1931-1991 / 1992
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, Book Stacks
c1992.
Black, Timuel D. Bridges of memory [volume one] : F 548.9 N4 B55
Chicago's first wave of Black 2003
migration / Class Reserve
Evanston, Ill. ; Northwestern
University Press ; c2003.
Black, Timuel D. Bridges of memory [volume two] : F 548.9 N4 B555
Evanston, Ill. ; Northwestern 2007
University Press ; c2007. Class Reserve
Bronzeville : Black Chicago in F 548.9 N4 B74
pictures, 1941-1943 / 2003
New York : New Press : c2003. Class Reserve
Knupfer, Anne Meis, The Chicago Black renaissance and F 548.9 N4 K57
women's activism / 2006
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, Class Reserve
c2006.
(This book deals with housing reform
and activism.)
Miller, Wayne, Chicago's South Side, 1946-1948 / F 548.9 N4 M55
Berkeley : University of California 2000
Press, c2000. Class Reserve
Satter, Beryl, Family properties : race, real estate, HD 7288.76 U52
and the exploitation of Black urban C434 2009
America / Book Stacks
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2009.
Aschenbrenner, Joyce. Lifelines : Black families in Chicago F 548.9 N3 A8
New York : Waveland, [1975] Class Reseve
Grossman, James R. Land of hope : Chicago, Black F 548.9 N4 G76
southerners, and the Great Migration / 1989
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, Book Stacks
1989.
Ehrenhalt, Alan, The lost city : discovering the F 548.52 E37 1995
forgotten virtues of community in the Book Stacks
Chicago of the 1950s /
New York : Basic Books, c1995.
Hirsch, Arnold R. Making the second ghetto : race and HD 7288.72 U52 H57
housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 / 1998
Chicago, Ill. : The University of Book Stacks
Chicago Press, c1998.
Baim, Tracy Out and proud in Chicago : an overview HQ 76.3 U52 I45
of the city's gay community / 2008
Chicago : Surrey Books, c2008. Book Stacks
Green, Adam, Selling the race : culture, community, F 548.9 N4 G72
and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 / 2007
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, Book Stacks
2007.
Keiser, R. Lincoln, The Vice Lords : warriors of the F 548.9 N4 K4
streets / Book Stacks
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
c1979.
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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Author Title Call Number
The American civil rights movement : E 185.61 A472 2001
readings & interpretations / Book Stacks
[Guilford, CT] : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin,
c2001.
Dierenfield, Bruce J., The civil rights movement / E 185.61 D54 2008
Harlow, England ; Pearson Longman, Class Reserve
c2008.
Kasher, Steven. The civil rights movement : a E 185.61 K347 2000
photographic history, 1954-68 / Class Reserve
New York : Abbeville Press, 2000,
c1996.
Rubel, David. The coming free / E 185.61 R9155
London ; DK Pub., c2005. 2005
(Illustrated chronicle of Class Reserve
the civil rights movement.)
Eyes on the prize : America's civil VHS HS 2 (v.1 and 2)
rights, years 1954 to 1965 / Request at front desk
[videorecording] :
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ;
[1992]
Ep. 1, Awakenings (1954-1956)
Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther
King Jr., school segregation.
Ep. 2, Fighting Back (1957-1962)
Little Rock, Arkansas; James Meredith.
Williams, Juan. Eyes on the prize : America's civil KF 4757 W52
rights years, 1954-1965 / Books Stacks
New York, NY : Viking, 1987.
The Eyes on the prize civil rights E 185.615 E95 1991
reader : documents, speeches, and Book Stacks
firsthand accounts from the Black
freedom struggle, 1954-1990 /
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin
Books, 1991.
Olson, Lynne. Freedom's daughters : the unsung E 185 O43 2002
heroines of the civil rights movement Book Stacks
from 1830 to 1970 /
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002,
c2001.
Morris, Aldon D. The origins of the civil rights E 185.61 M845 1986
movement : Black communities Book Stacks
organizing for change /
New York : Free Press, 1986, c1984.
Reporting civil rights. E 185.61 R47 2003
New York : Literary Classics of the v.1-2
United States : c2003. Book Stacks
Understanding the civil rights DVD HS 166
movement [videorecording] / Class Reserve
Huntsville, TX : Distributed by
Educational Video Network, Inc.,
c2000. 46 min.
1950's FASHION
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Author Title Call Number
Everyday fashions of the fifties as GT 615 E895 2002
pictured in Sears catalogs / Book Stacks
Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications,
2002.
Peacock, John, The 1950s / GT 596 P385 1997
London ; Thames and Hudson, 1997. Book Stacks
Smith, Desire. Fashionable clothing from the Sears GT 615 F37 early
catalogs, early 1950s / 1950
Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub. Ltd., 1998. Book Stacks
Skinner, Tina. Fashionable clothing from the Sears GT 615 F37 mid
catalogs, mid 1950s / 1950
Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub., c2002. Class Reserve
Shih, Joy. Fashionable clothing from the Sears GT 615 F37 late
catalogs, late 1950s / 1950
Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub., Ltd., Class Reserve
c1997.
Ettinger, Roseann. 50s popular fashions for men, women, GT 615 E88 1995
boys & girls : with price guide / Class Reserve
Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub., c1995.
Ettinger, Roseann. Fifties forever! : popular fashions GT 615 E884 1999
for men, women, boys & girls / Book Stacks
Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing Ltd,
1999.
***Don't forget Jet Magazine available
on the web at Google Books.
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Author Title Call Number
Concise anthology of American PS 507 C56 1985
literature / Book Stacks
New York : Macmillan ; c1985.
The Norton anthology of African PS 508 N3 N67 1996
American literature / Book Stacks
New York : W.W. Norton, c1997.
The Norton anthology of American PS 507 N6
literature / Book Stacks
New York : Norton, c1979.
The Portable Beat reader / PS 536 P6 1992b
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1992. Book Stacks
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN ART, DANCE AND MUSIC
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Author Title Call Number
**ART**
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Bearden, Romare, The art of Romare Bearden / N 6537 B4 A4 2003
Washington : National Gallery of Art, Book Stacks
c2003.
Fax, Elton C. Black artists of the new generation / N 6538 N5 F3
New York : Dodd, Mead, c1977. Book Stacks
Wheat, Ellen Harkins. Jacob Lawrence, American painter / ND 237 L29 A4
Seattle : University of Washington Book Stacks
Press in association with the Seattle
Art Museum, c1986.
**DANCE**
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Emery, Lynne Fauley. Black dance in the United States from GV 1624.7 N4 E44
1619 to 1970 / 1980
New York : Dance Horizons, 1980. Book Stacks
Gottschild, Brenda The black dancing body : a geography GV 1624.7 A34 G68
Dixon. from coon to cool / 2003
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Book Stacks
Dance Black America [videorecording] VHS DM 4
Pennington, NJ : Dance Horizons Video Request at front desk
: 1990, c1984.
**MUSIC**
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Hughes, Langston, Black magic; a pictorial history of PN 2286 H8
the Negro in American entertainment Book Stacks
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall
[1967]
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, Blues people; Negro music in white ML 3556 J73
America. Book Stacks
New York, W. Morrow, 1963.
Blues roots/Chicago. the 1930's / [ JA 748
sound recording] : Request at front desk
New York, NY : RBF, c1967.
Chicago blues [sound recording]. JA 754
London : World Music Network, pc2003. Request at front desk
International dictionary of black Ref ML 390 I58
composers / Reference Section
Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Pub., 1999.
Goldberg, Joe. Jazz masters of the fifties. ML 394 G63
New York, Macmillan Co. [1965] Book Stacks
Southern, Eileen. The music of black Americans : a ML 3556 S74 1997
history / Book Stacks
New York : Norton, c1997.
South side Chicago blues [sound JA 769
recording]. Request at front desk
Chicago, Ill. : Delmark, cp2003.
Keil, Charles. Urban blues. ML 3556 K4
Chicago, University of Chicago Press Book Stacks
[1966]
AFRICAN AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS IN THEATER AND HISTORY
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Author Title Call Number
African-American performance and PN 2270 A35 A46
theater history : a critical reader / Book Stacks
Oxford [England] ; Oxford University
Press, 2001.
Hughes, Langston, Black magic; a pictorial history of PN 2286 H8
the Negro in American entertainment Book Stacks
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall
[1967]
Sanders, Leslie The development of black theater in PS 338 N4 S26 1988
Catherine, America : from shadows to selves / Book Stacks
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State
University Press, c1988.
Woll, Allen L. Dictionary of the Black theatre : Ref PN 2270 A35
Broadway, off-Broadway, and selected W64 1983
Harlem theatre / Reference Section
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,
1983.
Abramson, Doris E. Negro playwrights in the American PS 351 A2
theatre, 1925-1959 Book Stacks
New York, Columbia University Press,
1969.
A Sourcebook of African-American PN 2270 A35 S68
performance : plays, people, movements/ 1999
London ; Routledge, 1999. Class Reserve
The Theatre of Black Americans : a PN 2270 A35 T4
collection of critical essays / Book Stacks
New York, NY : Applause, c1987.
Brown-Guillory, Their place on the stage : Black women PS 338 N4 B76 1990
Elizabeth. playwrights in America / Class Reserve
New York : Praeger, 1990.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
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Author Title Call Number
Hansberry, Lorraine, Les blancs: the collected last plays PS 3515 A515 B5
of Lorraine Hansberry. Book Stacks
New York, Random House [1972]
Carter, Steven R., Hansberry's drama : commitment amid PS 3515 A515 Z57
complexity / 1991
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, Class Reserve
c1991.
Cheney, Anne, Lorraine Hansberry / PS 3515 A515 Z6
Boston : Twayne, c1984. 1984
Class Reserve
Hansberry, Lorraine, Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection SW 10-5 BOX
[sound recording]. Class Reserve
[New York] : Caedmon, p2009.
Leeson, Richard M., Lorraine Hansberry : a research and Z 8385.64 L44
production sourcebook / 1997
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, Class Reserve
1997.
Lorraine Hansberry, art of thunder, PS 3515 A515 Z45
vision of light : Freedomways, special 1979
issue, vol. 19, no. 4, 1979, Class Reserve
a quarterly review of the Freedom
Movement.
New York : Freedomways Associates Inc.
Nemiroff, Robert. To be young, gifted, and Black : PS 3515 A515 Z8
Lorraine Hansberry in her own words / 1995
New York : Vintage Books, 1995. Class Reserve
RAISIN IN THE SUN
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Author Title Call Number
Domina, Lynn. Understanding a raisin in the sun : a PS 3515 A515 R335
student casebook to issues, sources, 1998
and historical documents / Class Reserve
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,
1998.
Rose, Philip, You can't do that on Broadway! : A PN 2287 R757 A3
raisin in the sun and other theatrical 2001
improbabilities : a memoir / Class Reserve
New York : Limelight Editions, 2001.
