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Adero, Malaika, ed.
Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of African-American Migrations.
New York: The New Press, 1993.
Bolden, Tonya.
Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists.
New York: Abrams in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2004.
Burns, Ken and Geoffrey C. Ward.
Jazz: A History of America’s Music.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Everett, Gwendolyn.
African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003.
Hill, Laban Carrick.
Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance.
New York: Little, Brown, 2003.
Nesbett, Peter T. and Michelle DuBois, eds. Complete Jacob Lawrence.
Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence. 2 volumes.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, in association with the Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project, 2000.
Powell, Richard, et al.
Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance. Introduction by David A. Bailey.
London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 1997.
Rampersad
Arnold and David Roessel, eds. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Rochelle, Belinda, ed.
Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art.
New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
Sullivan, Charles, ed.
Children of Promise: African American Literature and Art for Young People.
New York: Abrams, 1991.
Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, ed.
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series.
Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Washington, D.C.: The Rappahannock Press in association with The Phillips Collection, 1993.
Wheat, Ellen Harkins.
Jacob Lawrence: American Painter.
Seattle: University of Washington Press in association with the Seattle Art Museum, 1986.