Braxton, Joanne M., ed., The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Dunbar is considered among the most important early African-American poets, and his poetry reflects the emotional spectrum and unique experiences of late nineteenth-century African Americans. Frank and Minnie refer to his poetry in Flyin' West.

Chafe, William Henry, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad, eds., Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South, New Press, 2001.

This volume contains the first-hand experiences of African-Americans during the racial segregation of the Jim Crow years. Interviewees include individuals of various economic, social, and geographic backgrounds. The book comes with an audio disk that allows readers to hear some of the interviewees telling their stories.

Painter, Nell Irvin, Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction, Random House, 1977.

This review relates the events leading up to the migration of many African Americans in...