Books

Behnken, Brian D. Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas.

Black Dallas Remembered. African American Families and Settlements of Dallas: On the Inside Looking Out.

Castleberry, Virginia. Daughters of Dallas: A History of Greater Dallas Through the Voices and Deeds of Its Women.

Boykin, Roger. Decades.

Brewer, J. Mason. Editor. A History of the Dallas High School for Negroes.

Brewer, J. Mason. Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants: A History of the Negro in Texas Politics from Reconstruction to Disfranchisement. (1935).

Fairbanks, Robert. For the City As A Whole: Planning, Politics and Public Interest in Dallas, 1900-1965.

Black Dallas Remembered Steering Committee. First African American Families of Dallas: Creative Survival.

Gee, Sadye and Darnell Williams. Black Presence in Dallas: Historic Black Dallasites.

Graff, Harvey. The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of An American City.

Harris, Edward “Tex.” In the Shadow of Big Texas.

Hazel, Michael V. Dallas: A History of Big D.

Hazel, Michael V. ed. Dallas Reconsidered: Essays in Local History.

Hill, Patricia E. Dallas: The Making of A Modern City.

McElroy, Njoki. 1012 Natchez: A Memoir of Grace, Hardship and Love.

Keaton, George, Jr. and Judith Garrett Segura. Editors. Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas.

Linden, Glenn M. Desegregating Schools in Dallas: Four Decades in the Federal Courts.

Morgan, Ruth P. Governance by Decree: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act in Dallas.

Payne, Darwin. Big D: Triumphs and Troubles of An American City in the 20th Century.

Payne, Darwin. Quest for Justice: Louis A. Bedford, Jr. and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Texas.

Phillips, Michael White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001.

Prince, Dr. Robert. A History of Dallas: From A Different Perspective.

Schutze, Jim. The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in An American City. (1987 and 2021)

Thomas, Jesse O. Negro Participation in the Texas Centennial Exposition.

Williams, Roy and Kevin Shay, . . . And Justice for All: The Untold History of Dallas.

Wilson, William H. Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas.

Winegarten, Ruthe and Marc Sanders. The Lives and Times of Black Dallas Women.

Sources at the Dallas Public Library – Texas Dallas Collection on the 7th Floor:

Willie Burke Anderson Collection

John and Ethelyn Chisum Collection

Juanita Craft Collection

Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce Collection

The Dallas Express newspaper on microfilm (1919-1970)

Dallas Black History clipping folders, Texas Dallas Collection, Dallas Public Library.

Dallas Black Power Legacy Project – Fahim Minkah Collection and the Al and Lovie Lipscomb Collection

Archival Sources at the Dallas Historical Society

John Leslie Patton Papers

Minnie A. Flanagan Papers

A.A. Braswell Collection

Hall of Negro Life Collection

Archival Sources at the Dallas African American Museum

Dr. Alfred Roberts Collection*

Trinity Links Collection*

Plano Links Collection*

A. Maceo Smith Collection*

Maria Morgan YWCA Collection*

Maurine F. Bailey Collection*

Eva Jessye Collection*

Sepia Magazine Photograph Collection

Bishop College Theses (inventory)*

Great Fire of Dallas 1860 Collection*

Circle-Lets, Inc Collection*.

Juanita Craft Civil Rights House Collection*

African American Education Archives and History Program General Records and Hall of Fame Collection*

African American Museum Miscellaneous Items*

Dr. Yvonne A. Ewell Collection*

Dallas Express Newspaper Collection*

George Allen Collection*

Dallas Regional National Association of Black School Educators Collection*

African American Newspaper Collection*

Estella Doty Collection*

*Has Finding Aid

Miscellaneous articles:

Georges-Abeyie, Daniel. “The Social Ecology of Bomb Threats: Dallas, Texas.” Journal of Black Studies 13

(March 1983): 305-320.

Beck, William W., Glen M Linden, and Michael E. Siegel. “Identifying School Desegregation Leadership Styles.” Journal of Negro Education 49 (Spring 1980): 115-133.

Lockwood, G. Paul. “A White Veteran Reflects on Race Relations in Three American Cities.” Phylon 9 (1948): 341-345.

Behnken, Brian D. “The Dallas Way: Protest, Response, and the Civil Rights Experience in Big D and

Beyond"; Southwestern Historical Quarterly (2007).

Cole, Stephanie. “Finding Race in Turn-of-the-Century Dallas.” in Cole, Parker and Edwards, editors. Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest (2003).

Decker, Stefanie. “Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Juanita Craft versus the Dallas Elite.” East Texas Historical Journal (2001).

Dulaney, W. Marvin. “Whatever Happened to the Civil Rights Movement in Dallas, Texas?” in Dulaney and Underwood, eds. Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement (1993)

Dulaney, W. Marvin. “The Progressive Voters League: A Political Voice for African Americans in Dallas,” Legacies (1991).

Dulaney, W. Marvin. “A Long Road to Blue,” Our Texas Magazine, Summer, 1992, 14-15.

Dulaney, W. Marvin. “The Impact of Local Civil Rights Leadership: Dallas, Texas As A Case Study.” The Legacy of African American Leadership for the Present and Future, (1999).

Dulaney W. Marvin. “The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the NAACP in Dallas,” Lone Star Legacy: African American History in Texas (2011).

Dulaney, W. Marvin. “We Still Love Lucy; Lucy Phelps Patterson, Dallas’ First African-American Councilwoman”: Legacies 25 (Fall 2013): 42-48.

Dulaney, W. Marvin. “Julia Scott Reed: Presenting the Truth About African Americans in Dallas”; in Texas

Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, edited by Stephanie Cole, Rebecca Sharpless, and Elizabeth Hayes Turner Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015, pp. 389-409.

Dulaney, W. Marvin. “Juanita Craft: Another Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement,” Legacies 29 (Fall 2017): 38-45.

Dulaney, W. Marvin. “Norman Washington Harllee,” Handbook of Texas,

Dunbar, Paul L. “A. Maceo Smith and the Hall of Negro Life.” Legacies 23 (Fall 2011): 4-12.

Garrett-Scott, Shennette. “’The Hope of the South’: The New Century Cotton Mill of Dallas, Texas, and the Business of Race in the New South, 1902-1907.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (2012).

Gower, Patricia E. “The Price of Exclusion: Dallas Municipal Policy and its Impact on African Americans.”: East Texas Historical Journal (2001).

Lawe, Theodore M. “Racial Politics in Dallas in the Twentieth Century,” East Texas Historical Review 46 (2008): 27-41.

Oral History Interviews

George Allen, Dallas Mayors Oral History Project, 1983.

Joe Atkins, University of North Texas Oral History Collection, February 2, 2004.

Interview with Juanita Craft, Black Women Oral History Project, January 20, 1977.

Antonio Maceo Smith, Texas-Dallas Collection, January 2, 1978.

Dallas Black Power Legacy Project features interviews with Marilyn Clark, Charles Hillman, Karioki, Odinga

Kambui, and Charles Beasley.

Oral History Websites

Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project.

UTA Tejano Voices Oral History Project.

African American Education Archives

History Program Oral History Project.

“Documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Dallas County, Texas” An Oral History Project Co-Sponsored by the African-American Education Archives and History Program, the Dallas African American Museum, the University of Texas at Arlington, and Humanities Texas (2011). (34 interviews). There are copies at the Dallas Public Library, the African American Museum, and UTA Special Collections. Some of them are also online on the oral history site of Stephen F. Austin University.

Theses and Dissertations

Burrow, Rachel Northington. “Juanita Craft,” M.A. Thesis, Southern Methodist University, 1994.

Cashion, Scott Alan. “And So We Moved Quietly: Southern Methodist University and Desegregation, 1950-1970.” Ph.D. diss., University of Arkansas, 2013.

Parker, Jasmine Danielle. “Desegregation in post-Brown Dallas, Texas: A historical narrative attributing the response and social activism efforts of African American Dallasites, 1950s–1970s". Ph. D dissertation,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015.

Phillips, Michael. “The Fire This Time: The Battle over Racial, Regional and Religious Identities in Dallas, Texas, 1860–1990.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin.

Strange, Tempie V., “The Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce: A Study of a Negro Institution,” M.A. thesis, Southern Methodist University, 1945.

Welborn, Ty, “Lone Star Crusader: Antonio Maceo Smith and the Texas Civil Rights Movement,” Ph. D. dissertation, University of Houston, 2018.

Wilson, Ava. “Left in An Unmarked Grave: Unearthing the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in Dallas, Texas.” M.A. Thesis, Temple University, 2011.

Reports

A New Community Vision for Dallas, 2019 Report. Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation, 2019.

A New Community for Dallas: 2020 Economic Supplement Report. Dallas Truth Racial Healing &Transformation, 2020.

Racial Wealth Divide in Dallas. Prosperity Now, October 2018.

Peter, Prior, Green and Clow, Editors. Freedman’s Cemetery: A Legacy of A Pioneer Black Community in Dallas, Texas. (Plano, Texas: Geo-Marine, Inc., 2000) Volumes 1 and 2.

Miscellaneous

See the Handbook of African American Texas compiled by the Texas State Historical Association for entries on a variety of subjects related to African Americans in Dallas (and Texas) such as:

A.Maceo Smith

African American Museum

Hall of Negro Life

Democratic Progressive Voters League

Juanita Jewel Craft

William J. Durham

N. W. Harllee

Juneteenth

Civil Rights

J. Von Brown

Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Sr.

Julia Scott Reed

Minnie A. Flanagan

George Allen

Joseph Louis Atkins

Emmett James Conrad

John Leslie Patton, Jr.

And many, many more entries related to African Americans in Dallas