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Ammeson, Jane Simon. Hauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017. 187p. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 977 Am63ha/

Bransom, Marlene Garrett. Early African American Deaths in the Pittsburgh Courier (1925-1930). Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 2012. 6 volumes. Indices. /GC 974.802 P687brm/

Campney, Brent M. S. Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2019. 241p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 C156h/

Cox, Anna-Lisa. The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers & The Struggle for Equality. New York: PublicAffairs, 2018. 280p. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 C839bo/

Ford, Melissa. A Brick and a Bible: Black Women's Radical Activism in the Midwest during the Great Depression. . Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2022. 224p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977 F75b/

Glasrud, Bruce A. & Charles A. Braithwaite. African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 395p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 Af83g/

Harbour, Jennifer R. Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. 185p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 H214b/

Larrie, Reginald R. Makin' Free: African-Americans in the Northwest Territory. Detroit, MI: B. Ethridge Books, 1981. 133p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 977 L32m/

Reid, John B. Race, Class, Gender and the Teaching Profession: African American Schoolteachers of the Urban Midwest, 1865-1950. Lansing, MI: J. B. Reid, 1996. 221p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977 R272ra/

Robertson, Stacey M. Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 303p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977 R545he/

Schwalm, Leslie A. Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 387p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 977 Sch93em/

Theiss, Nancy Stearns. A Tour on the Underground Railroad along the Ohio River. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2020. 175p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977 T34t/

Volpe, Vernon L. Forlorn Hope of Freedom: The Liberty Party in the Old Northwest, 1838-1848. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1990. 236p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 V88fo/

Waldron, Caroline Anne. "The Great Spirit of Solidarity:" The Illinois Valley Mining Communities and the Formation of Interethnic Consciousness, 1889-1917. Urbana, IL: C. A. Waldron, 2000. 381p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.3 W147gr/

Weiner, Dana Elizabeth. Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013. 327p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 977 W43ra/

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