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Black History Month  (February, 2007)

Selected Long Island & New York State  Aspects

Note:  Most of these titles are also in the PML Local History Room

Black History Month 2007  (About.com.   About Long Island)

          http://longisland.about.com/cs/seasonalevents/a/black_history.htm

Brewster-Walker, Sandi.  The Colored Girl from Long Island.   L&P International, 2007. 

         --  New Book  B Brewster-Walker, Sandi

          This is the autobiography of a former North Amityville resident, who, among her many accomplishments, earned a Ph.D., is CEO of her own company, and currently produces a blog & website on L.I. Native and African-American history and genealogy, and took part in the Clinton Administration.

The Black New Yorkers:  The Schomberg Illustrated Chronology, ed. by Howard  Dodson, et

            al.  New York:  John Wiley, 2000.  470 p.  -- Non-Fiction 974.71DOD

Calonius, Erik.  The Wanderer:  The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy that Set Its

             Sails.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 2006.  298 p.  -- Non-Fiction 973.711 CAL

Cantor, Martin M.  Long Island, the Global Economy, and Race:  The Aging of America's First

            Suburb.  Bethpage, NY:   Long Island Development Corp. / Greater New York Development

            Corp., 2006.  116 p.  -- In Process (i.e., being cataloged):  Non-Fiction 974.721 R-LI-4 CAN

Domatob, Jerry Komia.  African Americans of Eastern Long Island.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia,

            2001. 128 p. -- Non-Fiction  974.725 DOM

Domatob, Jerry Komia.  African Americans of Western Long Island.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia,

            2002. 128 p. -- Non-Fiction  974.725 DOM

            The above two works are basically photographic.

Gaylor, Mary Lee.  African-American Resource Guide:  A Survey-Summary of Pre-1931

            African-American Records Covering the Area of Riverhead Central School District

                for Genealogists and Other Researchers.   Sound Beach, NY:   [The Author], 2006.  11

            p. -- LI REF  929.3747 GAY

Gray, Katti.  A Wake Up Call on the N-Word  (Newsday.com. Entertainment, Dec. 4, 2006)

          http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--racialslur0202feb01,0,469255.story

The Harlem Reader:  A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the

          Renaissance Years to the Twenty-First Century.  New York:  Three Rivers Press, 2003.

          316 p.  -- New Book  974.71  HAR

Jim Crow New York:  A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877, ed. by

            David N. Gellman and David Quigley.  New York; London:  New York University Press,

            2003.  353 p.  -- NY REF  323.1196  JIM

Kugler, Sarah.  New York City Council Considers Halt to N-Word

          (Newsday.com.  News, Feb 2, 2007)

          http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--racialslur0202feb01,0,469255.story

Lepore, Jill.  New York Burning:  Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century

            Manhattan.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  323 p.  -- Non-Fiction  974.7102 LEP

Long Island Fair Housing:  A State of Inequity:  Institutional and Structural Racism in

            Housing:  The Status of CurrentEnforcement Systems and Recommendations for

            Improvement.  [Syosset, NY:]  ERASE  Racism, 2005.  65 p.  -- LI REF 363.51  LON  

            [Copies are also available for download at: http://www.eraseracismny.org]

Sernett, Milton C.  North Star Country:  Upstate New York and the Crusade for African

    - American Freedom.  Syracuse  University Press, 2002.  369 p.  -- Non-Fiction 326.8097 SER

Slavery in New York, ed. by Ira Berlin & Leslie M. Harris.  New York:  New Press, in conjunction

            with The New-York Historical Society; distr. by W.W. Norton Co., 2005.  403 p. 

            -- Non-Fiction 970.7049 SLA

Update:  Long Island Native and Black History, [comp & ed. by Dr. Sandi Brewster-Walker

          http://sbrewsterw.typepad.com/  [Blog]