Robin W. Winks, Author

Robin Winks delves into the history of enslavement in Canada, the abolitionist movement in Canada. and more. Must reading for Black family historians who straddle the border.

Linda Brown-Kubisch, Author

Livas Anderson settled his family in the Queen's Bush about 1840 before moving on to Rondeau in Kent County, Ontario.

Sharon Hepburn, Author

This is an excellent study of the Elgin Settlement, a planned Black community in Ontario. Several Canada-Nebraska Homestead families are referenced.

Edited by Benjamin Drew

This republication of Drew's, The Refugee: A North-Side View of Slavery, should be read by anyone researching their enslaved ancestors, whether or not they escaped to Canada.

Gwendolyn Robinson and John W. Robinson

Seek the Truth was written to provide a more complete history of an "overlooked segment of the city's history."

A. C. Robbins, Author

Mrs. Robbins details Buxton's history, the importance of that history, and the communities place in the survival story of enslaved people of African descent.

Osborne Perry Anderson, Author

A Voice From Harper's Ferry, A Narrative of Events At Harper's Ferry

Bryan Prince, Author

One Enslaved Family's Incredible Struggle For Freedom

Marcel Trudel

Translated by George Tombs

A Treasury of Soddy Stories

Meehan granddaughters Lena Speese Day and Ava Speese Day contributed a chapter about Black homesteaders and life in the Sandhills.

From the Great Plains Black History Museum.

This is a wonderful narrative and pictorial display of Black life in Nebraska and it includes a section about Black homesteaders.

An Illistrated History of African American in Nebraska

Bertha W. Calloway and Alonzo N. Smith

Center for Great Plains Studies

University of Nebraska

Historic Resources Study

for the National Park Service

Richard Edwards, Mikal Brotnov Eckstrom, Jacob K. Friefeld

2019

Stew Magnuson, Author

The Last American Highway three-book series follows US Route 83 across the US from north to south, including DeWitty/Audacious, NE. 

David R. Gross, Author

The Hanna family and DeWitty residents were neighbors and friends. They are now owners and caretakers of what was once DeWitty/Audacious, NE.

Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld

Preface by Angela Bates

NEWLY RELEASED 2023

by Roy and Stephanie Myers

"Migration of an African American Family through Seven States to Lincoln, Nebraska, 1720-1940"

Dennis Vossberg, Author

A fictionalized story of the black pioneers who homesteaded in Wheeler County, Nebraska.

Book 1:The Land, A History of Cherry County, Nebraska

Book 2: The People, A History of the People of Cherry County

1883-1983

Published by Cherry County Centennial Committee 1985.

MUDDY CREEK MEANDERINGS

  Berwyn 1979, The Berwyn History Book Committee

This book chronicles the families of Custer County, Nebraska. Ava Speese Day contributed the Speese story, pages 489-493.

Thank you to the Speese cousin who gifted me this book. The book is not in print. This copy will be held in the Meehan collection for family members to view.

Bernice Alexander Bennett, Author

Ms. Bennett presents the stories of Black men and women who acquired land in southern states under the Southern Homestead Act of 1866.

Betti Vanepps-Taylor, Author

Forgotten Lives shares the history of African Americans who lived and homesteaded in South Dakota.

The Sugarland Ethno-History Project

A History of African Americans in Montgomery County, Maryland

James A. Emanuel

James Emanuel was born in Alliance, Nebraska. He is the son and grandson of DeWitty Homesteaders Alfred Emanuel and Joshua "Doss" Emanuel.

James Emanuel wrote over 300 poems and 13 books.

Forrest Muriel Stith

Forrest Stith was the son of DeWitty homesteaders Christopher and Margaret Stith. He was born in DeWitty, Nebraska.

His fictionalized autobiography of a World War II black army chaplain is out of print but available at libraries.

Dorothy Price-Hopkins

Unholiest Patrimony is a work of fiction based on facts from the life and memory of Dorothy's great-grandmother, Charlotte Jackson.

Dorothy is the granddaughter of DeWitty Homesteader, Turner Price.

Joyceann Gray

Cover Illustration by Jacob B. Ferrell

2018

Joyceann Gray is a descendant of DeWitty.

JA Gray

Story of select families who helped settle the DeWitty-Audacious community in the Nebraska  Sandhills.