Research Resources
 

The following are resources used to research, illustate, and put in perspective the
topics and themes of Jeffrey Wilson, the "Colored Notes" column, the black press
and historical information about related topics.

 

Primary Sources

Local Government Documents


City Directories of Norfolk and Portsmouth. Annual volumes for 1872-1940. Sargeant Memorial Room, Norfolk Public Library. Norfolk, VA

Marriage License of Jeffrey Wilson and Imogene Langley. Norfolk County Marriage License Record Book, Chesapeake Clerk of Court Office, Chesapeake, Virgnia.

Marriage License of Jeffrey Wilson and Laura Butt. Norfolk County Marriage License Record Book, Chesapeake Clerk of Court Office, Chesapeake, Virginia

Marriage License of Jeffrey Wilson and Annie Jones. Norfolk County Marriage License Record Book, Chesapeake Clerk of Court Office, Chesapeake, Virginia.

Marriage License of Jeffrey Wilson and Blanche Blake. Norfolk County Marriage License Record Book, Chesapeake Clerk of Court Office, Chesapeake, Virginia.

The Will and Testament of MaryWilson. Norfolk County Records of Wills, Chesapeake Clerk of Court Office, Chesapeake, Virginia.

Library Manuscripts

Edwards, Bertha W. "Portsmouth Blacks." 2 volumes. Unpublished loose-leaf scrapbook. Portsmouth Public Library. Portsmouth, VA.

Unpublished Manuscripts

Biographical Sketches, Portsmouth Black History Files, Portsmouth Public Library

Newspapers

The Portsmouth Star
The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Dispatch
The Journal and Guide (Norfolk)
Richmond Times-Dispatch

Secondary Sources

Albertson, Robert Brooke. Portsmouth, Virginia, Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2002

Alexander, Cassandra Newby L. and Mae Breckenridge-Haywood. Portsmouth, Virginia, Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2002

Breckenridge-Haywood, Mae and Dinah Walters. Inscriptions in Triumph. Portsmouth: privately printed, 2002.

Brundage, Fitzhugh W. Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993), 1-16, 140-190.

Cappon, Lester J. Virginia Newspapers: 1821-1935. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1936

Chambers, Lenoir, Joseph E. Shank and Harold Sugg. Salt Water and Printer's Ink: Norfolk and Its Newspapers, 1865-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967.

Dabney, Virginius. Virginia, The New Dominion: A History From 1607 to the Present. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971.

Daughtry, Wille Estelle. Vision and Reality: The Story of "Black Patti" Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones. Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc., 2002

Hale, Elizabeth G, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940. (Garden City,NJ: Doubleday and Company, 1998), Preface, 3-11, 281-296.

Jordan, William G. Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy: 1914-1920, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001

Kobleski, Jane, Readings in Black and White: Lower Tidewater Virginia (Portsmouth, VA: Portsmouth Public Library, 1982), 35-47, 72-79.

Lewis, Earl. In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in Twentieth Century Norfolk, Virginia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Morgan, Phillp,"Don't Grieve After Me": The Black Experience in Virginia, 1619-1986. Hampton, VA: Published by Hampton University, 1986), 63-93.

Pride, Armistead S. and Clint C. Wilson. A History of the Black Press. Washington D.C.: Howard University Press, 1997.

Stewart, Charles E. The African Society Becomes Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, Virginia. Norfolk: Guide Quality Press, 1944.

Suggs, Henry Lewis, ed. The Black Press in the South, 1865-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.

Suggs, Henry Lewis. "P.B. Young of the Norfolk Journal and Guide: A Booker T. Washington Militant, 1904-1928." Journal of Negro History 64 (Fall 1979).

Suggs, Henry Lewis. P. B. Young: Newspaperman. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988

Vogel, Todd, ed. The Black Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2001

Wentz, Robert. Portsmouth: A pictorial history, Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishing, 1975.

Workers of the Writers' Program of the WPA in Virginia, compilers, The Negro in Virginia (Winston-Salem, NC: John Blair Publisher, 1994. Originally published by Hastings House, 1940), 262-388.

 

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