TC reading list

 

READTOUGALOOCOLLEGEAUTHORSMONTH (February 2021)

 

Dear Tougaloo College Alumnae/Alumni,

 

I am pleased to send you a selective list of book-length works  by Tougaloo  graduates for

READTOUGALOOCOLLEGEAUTHORSMONTH ---February 2021.

We can be proud of the graduates who have enlarged and enriched the field of black writing and our ongoing creative and intellectual histories.

I am indebted to  John S. Page, Jr  '64 for his invaluable help in constructing the list.

 

Jerry W. Ward, Jr. "64

 

 

 

Thomas Armstrong

 

Autobiography of a Freedom Rider: My Life as a Foot Soldier for Civil Rights.

N.P.: Health Communications Inc, 2011.

 

Hermand Bennette Jr.

 

Come Walk with Me through Roses and Thorns

Self-published 1981

 

Aint No Help

N.P.: Delta Diamond,  1981.

 

David Patrick Bickham

 

Blackberry Juice from Blues Bones.

Grenada, MS: Salt-Works  Press, 1988.

 

Jonathan Henderson Brooks

 

The Resurrection and Other Poems

Dallas: The Kaleiograph Press, 1948.

 

 

Charrita D. Danley

 

Through the Crack

Riverdale, GA: Chideria Publishing, 2004; Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

Freddi Williams Evans

 

Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans

Lafayette: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press,

 

A Bus of  Our Own

Morton  Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Company, 2003

 

 

Turry Flucker

 

African Americans of Jackson

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2008

[co-authored with Phoenix Savage]

 

African Americas of New Orleans

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2010

[co-authored with Phoenix Savage]

 

 

 

Nell Braxton Gibson

 

Too Proud to Bend: Journey of a Civil Rights Foot Soldier.

Self-published 2014.

     

 

Shirley A. James Hanshaw

 

Re-Membering and Surviving: African American Fiction of the Vietnam War.

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2021.

 

Geraldine Edwards Hollis

 

Back to Mississippi: Sidewalks Represent a Journey to the Paths of My Success; Follow My Steps and Take the Journey.

Xlibris, September 22, 2011.

 

Candice Love Jackson

 

Deserving Grace

Self-published, 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joyce Ladner

 

Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971

 

Mixed Families: Adopting Across Racial Boundaries.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977

 

The Ties That Bind; Timeless Values for African American Families.

New York: Wiley, 1999.

 

 

 

Anne Moody

 

Coming of Age In Mississippi

New York: Dial Press, 1968.

 

Mister Death: Four Stories

New York: Harper & Row, 1978.

 

 

 

Minion K.C. Morrison

 

Black Political Mobilization, Leadership, Power and Mass Behavior.

Albany: SUNY Press, 1987.

 

Aaron Henry of Mississippi:  Inside Agitator.

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2015.

 

 

 

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

 

My Stand for Freedom.

N.P.:The Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation, 2019.

 

 

 

Hakeem Oluseyi [ James Edward Plummer, Jr.]

 

Discovery Spaceopedia: The Complete Guide to Everything Space

Discovery Channel TI Inc Books (2015)

[ Oluseyi is the principle author ]



 

Howard Rambsy II

 

The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry.

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2011.

 

Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers.

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press,2020

 

Daphne Robinson

 

Delinquent: How the American Juvenile System Is Failing Black Children.

Atlanta: TLR & Company, 2020.

 

Bettye Parker Smith

 

Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979

[ co-edited with Roseann P. Bell and Beverly Guy-Sheftall]

 

 

Derrick R Spires

 

The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

Arvarh E. Strickland

 

History of the Chicago Urban League

Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1966.

 

Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson, A Diary 1930-1933.

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jerry W. Ward, Jr

 

THE KATINA PAPERS: A JOURNAL OF TRAUMA AND RECOVERY.

New Orleans:  University of New Orleans Press, 2008

 

The China Lectures

Wuhan: Central China Normal University Press, 2014.

 

Fractal Song: Poems

Boston: Black Widow Press, 2016.

 

 

 

Hollis Watkins

 

Brother Hollis: The Sankofa of a  Movement Man.

Clinton, MS:  Sankofa Southern Publishing,

 

 

John Milton Wesley

 

An Intimate Dinner Party

Seattle: Cune Press, 2008

 

Salvos: New and Selected Poems

Seattle: Cune Press, 2009.

 

 

Stefan M. Wheelock

 

Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic.

Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2016

 

 

Maximus Wright

 

Soul Damage

Self-published, 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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