African American History in the Quad-Cities: Selected Resources

Davenporters Calvin Mason and Bernice M. Jones are included in this collection.

Regiment of United States Colored Troops responsible for guarding Confederate prisoners of war on Rock Island Arsenal, 1864-1865.

Circulating copy available from the Bettendorf Public Library.

Circulating copies available from other RiverShare Libraries.

Videorecording

Includes "History of African Americans in Iowa" by Frances Hawthorne

Poster

PhD Dissertation, University of Iowa, Spring 2018.

A list compiled from Davenport city directories.

Newspaper articles.

Interviews with Dorothy Katherine Mitchell, A.E. Hopkins, Ernest Harris, Mr. Bowman, Lucille Clark Taylor, Debbie Rush, Joe Sanders, Vincent Gooding, and Betty Ann Davis.

Issues of a periodical published by members of the local Black business community.

Materials collected for the Iowa Freedom Trail Project, 2013

Photocopies of the records held by the Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Video-recorded interviews with Jacqueline Bostic, L.A. Broyles, Bernice Jones, and Robert and Mamie Norville conducted by intermediate school students in the Davenport Community School District, 2000.

From the Library of Congress' Chronicling America project