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

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Local Boston Organizations

  • Museum of African American History

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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.

 

 
   

 

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