Try these links to learn more about African American family history:

• Links
• Local Boston Organizations
• Names
• Research Help
• Further Reading

Links

• In the Neighborhood
• Boston African-American Historic Site
• Museum of African American History
• 54th Massachusetts Regiment

Local Boston Organizations

• Museum of African American History

Names

• Afrigeneas
  Mailing list and links.
• African American Names

Research Help

• African American Genealogy
  Professionally-written articles.
• Afrigeneas
  Mailing list and links.

Further Reading

• Cromwell, Adelaide. The Other Brahmins: Boston's Black Upper Class 1750-1950. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994.
• Dorman, Franklin A. Twenty Families of Color in Massachusetts 1742-1998. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1998.
• Greene, Lorenzo Johnston. The Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776. New York: Columbia University Press, 1942.
• Hayden, Robert C. African Americans in Boston: More than 350 Years. Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1991.
• Horton, James O. Free People of Color. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian University Press, 1993.
• Jacobs, Donald M. Courage and Conscience: Black and White Abolitionists in Boston. Bloomington, IN: Published for the Boston Athenaeum by Indiana University Press, 1993.
• King, Mel. Chain of Change. Boston: South End Press, 1981.
• Nell, William Cooper. The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution. New York: Arno Press, 1968.
• Levesque, George. Black Boston. New York: Garland Publications, 1994.
• Schneider, Mark. Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.