“Black in Brooklyn.” Green-Wood Tours & Events, 17 February 2018, https://www.green-wood.com/event/black-in-brooklyn/. Accessed 5 June 2018.

• Link to site describing annual cemetery tour for Black History Month.

New York Historical Society. Examination Days:The New York Africa Free School Collection, https://www.nyhistory.org/web/africanfreeschool/. Accessed 5 June 2018.

• Website with a lot of information about the history of Black people in New York City, including bios of famous Black New Yorkers.

Parker, B.A, writer and performer. “History Is Not a Toy.” This American Life, episode 627 (“Suitable for Children”), WBEZ, 6 October 2017, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/627/suitable-for-children/act-two. Accessed 6 June 2018.

• This is a podcast that was assigned for class and one of the things it talks about is how Black people get ignored and erased in American history–this will be an important connection for my own podcast project.
• “When Joanne and her husband founded the museum, they set out to create something they wished existed in the world, a museum that celebrated and preserved black history, created by black people for black people in a majority black city. They were professors at historically black universities in Baltimore, Elmer at Morgan State and Joanne at Coppin. But they wanted to reach more than just the academic class.”

Palmer, Brian. “For the Forgotten African-American Dead.” The New York Times, 7 January 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/for-the-forgotten-african-american-dead.html. Accessed 5 June 2018.

• Talks about the problem of neglected civil war cemeteries in the South where Black soldiers are buried.

Peterson, Carla L. Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City. Yale University Press, 2011.

• Whole book available through JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1npr2k
• Table of Contents

Richman, Jeff. “An African Free School Sampler.” Green-Wood Historian Blog, 21 July 2011, https://www.green-wood.com/2011/an-african-free-school-sampler/. Accessed 5 June 2018.

• 1820 artifact discovered, made by Rosena Disery, an African-American woman buried at Green Wood.

Richman, Jeff. “A Racially-Integrated Green-Wood.” Green-Wood Historian Blog, 20 February 2015, https://www.green-wood.com/2015/a-racially-integrated-green-wood/. Accessed 5 June 2018.

• “though Green-Wood, in the 19th century, created public lots for “colored” burials, it also sold private family lots to people of color. Whether blacks were interred in the colored lots or in private lots was an economic, not a race, issue.”

Spellen, Suzanne (aka Montrose Morris). “Walkabout: Black Folks in 19th Century Brooklyn, Part 1.” Brownstoner, 26 February 2013, https://www.brownstoner.com/history/walkabout-black-folks-in-19th-century-brooklyn-part-1/. Accessed 5 June 2018.

• Excellent multi-part series about the history of Black people in Brooklyn, including lots of details about free Blacks in the 18th and early 19th century.

Spivak, Caroline. “African-American Graves from 1858 Rediscovered and Restored at Green-Wood.” DNAinfo, 21 August 2017, http://dnain.fo/2ikGnoM. Accessed 5 June 2018.

• “High school students have unearthed and restored a dozen long-forgotten 19th century graves of free African Americans buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.”

Wellman, Judith. Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York. NYU Press, 2017.

• Description from Google books:

In Brooklyn’s Promised Land, Judith Wellman not only tells the important narrative of Weeksville’s growth, disappearance, and eventual rediscovery, but also highlights the stories of the people who created this community. In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. The infrastructure and vibrant history of Weeksville, an African American community that had become one of the largest free black communities in nineteenth century United States, were virtually wiped out by Brooklyn’s exploding population and expanding urban grid.

Weeksville was founded by African American entrepreneurs after slavery ended in New York State in 1827. Located in eastern Brooklyn, Weeksville provided a space of physical safety, economic prosperity, education, and even political power for its black population, who organized churches, a school, orphan asylum, home for the aged, newspapers, and the national African Civilization Society. Notable residents of Weeksville, such as journalist and educator Junius P. Morell, participated in every major national effort for African American rights, including the Civil War.

Drawing on maps, newspapers, census records, photographs, and the material culture of buildings and artifacts, Wellman reconstructs the social history and national significance of this extraordinary place. Through the lens of this local community, Brooklyn’s Promised Land highlights themes still relevant to African Americans across the country.