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POETRY OF WILLIAM H. MEEHAN

PORTRAIT OF A JANITOR, A POETIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY

  Poems by William H. Meehan


Available on Amazon.com at https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Janitor-Autobiography-William-Meehan/dp/1732485909

ONLY A JANITOR (audio)

Title Poem by William Harvey Meehan

CANADA

The Blacks in Canada: A History, Second Edition

The Queen's Bush Settlelment: Black Pioneers 1839-1965

The Queen's Bush Settlelment: Black Pioneers 1839-1965

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.

The Queen's Bush Settlelment: Black Pioneers 1839-1965

The Queen's Bush Settlelment: Black Pioneers 1839-1965

The Queen's Bush Settlelment: Black Pioneers 1839-1965

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.


Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada

The Queen's Bush Settlelment: Black Pioneers 1839-1965

Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada

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.

A Voice From Harper's Ferry

Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada

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.

Seek The Truth: A Story of Chatham's Black Community

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."

Legacy to Buxton

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.


A Voice From Harper's Ferry

Osborne Perry Anderson, Author

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

A Shadow On The Household

Bryan Prince, Author


One Enslaved Family's Incredible Struggle For Freedom

Canada's Forgotten Slaves Two Hundred Years of Bondage

Canada's Forgotten Slaves Two Hundred Years of Bondage

Marcel Trudel

Translated by George Tombs

NEBRASKA

Sod House Memories

In Their Own Image, Artifacts from the Great Plains Black History Museum

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.

In Their Own Image, Artifacts from the Great Plains Black History Museum

In Their Own Image, Artifacts from the Great Plains Black History Museum

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.

Visions of Freedom

An Illistrated History of African American in Nebraska


Bertha W. Calloway and Alonzo N. Smith

Black Homesteaders

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

The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83

The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83

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. 

The Hanna Legacy: Six Generations on Pass Ranch

The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83

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.

The First Migrants

Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld

Preface by Angela Bates


NEWLY RELEASED 2023

Remembering the Path to "T"-TOWN

by Roy and Stephanie Myers


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

Hector's Bliss, Black Homesteaders at Goose Lake, Nebraska

Dennis Vossberg, Author

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

A Sandhill Century

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

Muddy Creek Meanderings

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.

OTHER HOMESTEAD COMMUNITIES

Black Homesteaders of The South

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.

Forgotten Lives: African Americans in South Dakota

Betti Vanepps-Taylor, Author

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

I Have Started For Canaan: The Story of the African American Town of Sugarland

I Have Started For Canaan: The Story of the African American Town of Sugarland

The Sugarland Ethno-History Project

A History of African Americans in Montgomery County, Maryland

FROM DEWITTY DESCENDANTS

The Treehouse and Other Poems

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.



Sunrises and Sunsets for Freedom

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.



Unholiest Patrimony

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.

And Now We Speak

Joyceann Gray

Cover Illustration by Jacob B. Ferrell

2018


Joyceann Gray is a descendant of DeWitty.


Proofing the Claim: Beginning of Black Homesteading in Nebraska

Proofing the Claim: Beginning of Black Homesteading in Nebraska

JA Gray


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



ADDITIONAL READING

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

W. Jeffrey Bolster, Author


Family oral tradition tells the story of Livas Anderson jumping from a ship during a fire in Charleston Harbor in 1821, but he was never enslaved. Was he a Black Jack?

The Black West

William Loren Katz, Author


A Documentary And Pictorial History of the African American Role In The Westward Expansion Of The United States


A Little Matter Of Genocide

Ward Churchill, Author


Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present



Black Genealogy

Charles L. Blockson, Author


How to discover your own family's roots and trace your ancestors back through an eventful past, even to a specific African Kingdom.



FOR MY MATERNAL FAMILY

Remnants of Forgotten Folk

REMNANTS OF FORGOTTEN FOLK

 
The Sammons-Handsor Cemetery, Dover, Kent, Ontario, Canada, Burials from 1856-1959, by Catherine Meehan Blount. The Boswell, Handsor, Richardson, Wright families.Available on Amazon.com at https://www.amazon.com/Remnants-Forgotten-Folk-Sammons-Handsor-1856-1959/dp/1732485917/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=remnants+of+forgotten+folk&qid=1633188323&sr=8-1  

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