General:
African American Genealogical Society of Northern California. Member & Surname Directory, 2003-2004. Oakland, CA: African American Genealogical Society of Northern California, Inc., 2003. 23p. /GC 979.4 Af83s/

African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. California churches and associations. /Microfilm 17/

Beasley, Delilah L. Negro Trail Blazers of California. New York: Negro University Press, 1969. 317p. Photographs. /GC 979.4 B375n/

Bottoms, D. Michael. An Aristocracy of Color: Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850-1890. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. 274p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 979.4 B659ar/

Calhoon, F. D. Coolies, Kanakas, and Cousin Jacks, and Eleven Other Ethnic Groups Who Populated the West During the Gold Rush Years. Sacramento, CA: CAL-CON Publishers, 1986. 322p. Appendix. /GC 979.4 C113c/

Cole, Olen, Jr. The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1999. 114p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 979.4 C675a/

de Graff, Lawrence B. Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California. Los Angeles, CA: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 2001. 537p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 979.4 Se329/

DeMaratus, DeEtta. The Force of a Feather: The Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom. Salt Lake City, UT: The University of Utah Press, 2002. 235p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 979.4 D391f/

From the Baobab Tree. Oakland, CA: African American Genealogical and Historical Society of Northern California, v.1-, 1997-. /Periodical/

History of Black Americans in Santa Clara Valley. San Jose, CA: Garden City Women's Club, 1978. 220p. Appendices. Index. Photographs. /GC 979.401 Sa68g/

Johnson, Geralyn. California African American Genealogical Society Surname Directory. Los Angeles, CA: CAAGS, 1995. 127p. /GC 979.402 L882caa/

Lapp, Rudolph M. Blacks in Gold Rush California. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977. 321p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 979.4 L31b/

McKanna, Clare V., Jr. Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2007. 148p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. Tables. /GC 979.4 M189r/

Santangelo, Gretchen Lemke. Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996p. 217p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 979.402 Sa519kye/

Slavery Era Insurance Registry. Sacramento, CA: Department of Insurance, 2002. 71p. /GC 975 SL16/

Thurman, Sue Bailey. Pioneers of Negro Origin in California. San Francisco, CA: Acme Publishing Company, 1971. 70p. Illustrations. /GC 979.4 T42p/

Wilbur H. Siebert Collection: Microfilm Edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 2001. "Slavery in California after 1848." /Microfilm Roll 1/

Alameda County:
Rhomberg, Chris. No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. 315p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 979.402 Oa4rh/

Thompson, Jerry and Duane Deterville. Black Artists in Oakland. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. 127p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 979.402 Oa4th/

Butte County:
Shover, Michele. Blacks in Chico, 1860-1935: Climbing the Slippery Slope. Chico, CA: Association for Northern California Records and Research, 1991. 56p. Notes. /GC 979.402 C43s/

Contra Costa County:
Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson. To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1901-1963. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. 232p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 979.402 Sa519mo/

Los Angeles County:
African Americans in Los Angeles and Los Angeles Township: Extracts from U.S. Censuses, Volume 1: 1850-1880. Los Angeles, CA: California African American Genealogical Society, 1995. 24p. /GC 979.402 L882af V.1/

African Americans in Los Angeles and Los Angeles Township: Extracts from U.S. Censuses, Volume 2: 1900. Los Angeles, CA: California African American Genealogical Society, 1997. 170p. /GC 979.402 L882af V.2/

Campbell, Marne Lyn. Heaven's Ghetto? African Americans and Race in Los Angeles, 1850-1917. Los Angeles, CA: M. L. Campbell, 2006. 265p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 979.402 L882cm/

Day, Aaron L. and Indira Hale Tucker, eds. The Heritage of African Americans in Long Beach: Over 100 Years. West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing Company, 2007. 302p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 979.402 L85he V.1/

Flamming, Douglas. Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. 467p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 979.402 L88fl/

Guillow, Lawrence E. The Origins of Race Relations in Los Angeles, 1820-1880: A Multi-Ethnic Study. Tempe, AZ: L. E. Guillow, 1996. 274p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 979.402 L88gu/

Sides, Josh. L. A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. 288p. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. /GC 979.402 L882rvs/

Smith, R.J. The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance. New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. 320p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 979.402 L882sm/

Stanford, Karin L. African Americans in Los Angeles. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2010. 127p. Photographs. /GC 979.402 L882sr/

Napa County:
McGriff-Payne, Sharon. John Grider's Century: African Americans in Solano, Napa, and Sonoma Counties from 1845 to 1925. New York: iUniverse, 2009

Salono County:
McGriff-Payne, Sharon. African Americans in Vallejo. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012. 127p. Photographs. Images of American Series. /GC 979.402 V24mc/

San Francisco County:
Adkins, Jan Batiste. . African Americans of San Francisco. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012. 127p. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 979.402 Sa519ad/

Daniels, Douglas Henry. Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. 228p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 979.402 Sa519da/

Mantilla, Jeanette. "Hush, Hush, Miss Charlotte:" A Quarter-Century of Civil Rights Activism by the Black Community of San Francisco, 1850-1875. Columbus, OH: J. Mantilla, 2000. 770p. Volume One. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 979.402 Sa519mj/

Parker, Elizabeth L. and James Abajian. A Walking Tour of the Black Presence in San Francisco During the Nineteenth Century. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society, 1974. 23p. Index. /GC 979.402 Sa519pa/

Solano County:
McGriff-Payne, Sharon. John Grider's Century: African Americans in Solano, Napa, and Sonoma Counties from 1845 to 1925. New York: iUniverse, 2009

Sonoma County:
McGriff-Payne, Sharon. John Grider's Century: African Americans in Solano, Napa, and Sonoma Counties from 1845 to 1925. New York: iUniverse, 2009

Tulare County:
Royal, Alice C. Allensworth, the Freedom Colony: A California African American Township. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2008. 144p. Photographs. Appendices. Notes. /GC 979.402 AL54ro/