Long Island in African American History

 A Selected Bibliography

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

       Created in mid- 2006, this is a highly recommended, thoroughly researched site, that already contains a wealth of information on both L.I. Native American and African-American history and genealogy.   It is loaded with primary documents, citing their sources, as well as useful and often hard-to-find material, drawn from secondary sources.  Its main sections are:  2006 Events. -- Birth, Marriage and Death Records. -- Books. -- LI Cemeteries. -- LI Libraries. --  U.S. Colored Troops (in Civil War military units); a Archives, and a Blog, to which you may subscribe, at no charge.  It also provides the editor's credentials.  To date, v.1, no. 1 (July 22-29, 2006) - v. 1, no. 8 (October 2006) have already appeared online and are downloadable from http://longislandgenealogy.com/LINandBNewsletter/Vol1_No1-8.pdf   Each of these sites also provide useful links to other sites. 

Invisible People of Suffolk, Nassau, Kings and Queens Counties, New York State (And Extended Families):  The Africans

    and Native Americans Genealogies, comp. & ed. by Sandi Brewster-Walker (RootsWeb.com)

    http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=sbrewsterw

Amon, Rhoda.  Recognizing a Luminary:  Inventor Lewis Lattimer, a Son of Slaves, Made the

       Light Bulb a Practical Device.  Long Island: Our Story  (Newsday, Inc.)

http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs625a,0,7223235.story

“Black History:  40 Names to Remember” (Long Island:  Our Story).  Newsday, February 3, 1998:  A28

-A29.

Black History Month 2006:  Long Island, NY (About.com) 

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

Black History on Long Island (Hofstra University.  Special Collections) 

http://www.hofstra.edu/Libraries/WestCampus/SpecialCollections/sc_lisi_blackhistory_index.cfm 

Bleyer, Bill.  “A Whaler’s Whaleman:  Thomas Roys’ Obsession Led to Innovations–and to His

       Demise,” Newsday (Newsday, Inc.)          http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/nyhistory_motion_water1,0,7652284.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation

Brookhaven Slave Manumissions During the War of 1812, compiled by Mark Rothenberg, summarized

from Records of the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, N.Y. [1798-1856].  Port Jefferson, NY: 

Times Steam Job Print, 1888:  pp. 162-186.  (1 PowerPoint Slide)

Cash, Floris Barnett.  “African-American Whalers:  Images and Reality.”  Long Island Historical Journal,

2(1) Fall 1989:  41-52.

The Civil Rights Movement on Long Island:  A Local History Curriculum Guide for Middle  

      School and High School, by Allan Singer, et al.  Hempstead, NY:  Hofstra University, [n.d.]  [77 p.]

http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/alan_j_singer/Curriculum%20Guides/Civil%20Rights%20on%20LI.pdf

Day, Lynda R.  Making a Way to Freedom:  A History of African-Americans on Long Island. 

       Interlaken, NY; Hempstead, NY:  Heart of the Lakes Books; Hofstra University.  Long Island Studies

Institute, 1997. – LI  REF  974.721 R-LI-4  DAY

DeWan, George.  “From Ship’s Cook to Commander” [Hugh Mulzac].  Newsday, March 26, 1986, Part 2:

p. 3.  Portrait and photo of a Liberty Ship.

“Emancipation Day:  Celebrations by Colored Persons at Myrtle Park.”  Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 

       August 2, 1870:  p. 2.  [for a facsimile of the original, see Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Daily

        Eagle website @  http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/ ]

Exploring African-American History:  Long Island and Beyond, edited by Natalie A. Naylor.  Hempstead, NY:

        Hofstra University.  Long Island Studies Institute, 1995.  -- LI REF and Q 973.0496 EXP

Domatob, Jerry Komia.  African Americans of Eastern Long Island  (Black Americans Series). 

        Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, an imprint of Tempus Publishing, Inc., 2001.  – LI REF  974.725 

        R-LI-2 DOM 

Domatob, Jerry Komia.  African Americans of Western Long Island  (Black Americans Series).

Charleston, SC:   Arcadia Publishing, an imprint of Tempus Publishing, Inc., 2002.  – LI REF 

974.725  R-LI-2 DOM 

Gillings, Marshalette.  “Jupiter Hammon:  America’s First Black Poet.” Long Island Historical Journal,

14(1-2) Fall-Spring 2002:  147-155.

Long Island Fair Housing:  A State of Inequity  (Erase Racism; read or downloadable 2005 report)

http://www.eraseracismny.org/strategies/housing/fair_housing_report/index.php

Howlett, Charles F.  “The Long Island Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s, Part One:  The Struggle to

Integrate Public Schools.”  Long Island Historical Journal, 8(2) Spring 1996:  pp.  145-165.

Howlett, Charles F.  “The Long Island Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s, Part Two:  Schools and

Housing.”  Long Island Historical Journal, 9(1) Fall 1996:  pp. 25-46.

Howlett, Charles F.  “The Long Island Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s, Part Three: Militancy and

Black Consciousness.”  Long Island Historical Journal, 9(2) Spring 1997:  pp. 168-189. 

Manumission Day -- July 4, 1827:  Slavery Officially Ends in New York State: Brookhaven: 

       Slaves to be Free & Unequal.  (1 PowerPoint slide) [Source: “July 4, 1827:  The Day NY Freed Its

Slaves.”  Newsday, July 4, 2003:  A 4, A 38.  (1 PowerPoint slide)]

Marcus, Grania Bolton.  Discovering the African American Experience in Suffolk County, 1620

       -1860.  Setauket, NY; Mattituck, NY:  Society for the Preservation of Long Island History; Amereon

House, 1988, repr. 1995.

O’Neale, Sondra A.  “Jupiter Hammond of Long Island:  America’s First Black Writer.” 

In  Evoking a Sense of Place:  Long Island Studies, ed. by Joann P. Krieg. 

Interlaken, NY:  Heart of the Lakes Publishing, 1988:  pp. 119-128.  – LI REF 

974.721 R-LI-4  EVO

Page, Susan.  “Booker T. Washington’s Long Island Retreat.”  Newsday, March 14, 1976: 

p. 1.  Port.  Photos of his Fort Salonga residence.

Shiel, John B.  “175 Years in One Book.” Long Island Forum, 33(3) March 1970:  pp.

[1,] 45-47, 49-50.  1 map.  2 photos (of Charity Society of Westbury Friends

Meeting).

Segregated Long Island (Cablevision Report)  (Erase Racism)

       http://www.eraseracismny.org/news_events/archives/000034.php

“Slavery Here:  Right in Brooklyn and Out on Long Island:  The ‘Peculiar Institution’

Seventy Years Ago Legalized in this State, Until the Year 1825 – Noted Negroes

and Abolitionists – Lewis Tappan.  Owen Lovejoy’s Funeral.”  Brooklyn Daily

Eagle, December 29, 1891:  p. 2.  (See Brooklyn Daily Eagle website @

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/   )

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