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
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
Seek The Truth: A Story of Chatham's Black Community
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
Seek The Truth: A Story of Chatham's Black Community
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
Seek The Truth: A Story of Chatham's Black Community
Seek The Truth: A Story of Chatham's Black Community
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
Canada's Forgotten Slaves Two Hundred Years of Bondage
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
Canada's Forgotten Slaves Two Hundred Years of Bondage
A Voice From Harper's Ferry
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
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
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
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
In Their Own Image, Artifacts from the Great Plains Black History Museum
Black Homesteaders
An Illistrated History of African American in Nebraska
Bertha W. Calloway and Alonzo N. Smith
Black Homesteaders
The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83
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
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
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
Hector's Bliss, Black Homesteaders at Goose Lake, Nebraska
Remembering the Path to "T"-TOWN
Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld
Preface by Angela Bates
NEWLY RELEASED 2023
Remembering the Path to "T"-TOWN
Hector's Bliss, Black Homesteaders at Goose Lake, Nebraska
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
Hector's Bliss, Black Homesteaders at Goose Lake, Nebraska
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
A Sandhill Century
Hector's Bliss, Black Homesteaders at Goose Lake, 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
A Sandhill Century
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
I Have Started For Canaan: The Story of the African American Town of Sugarland
Forgotten Lives: African Americans in South Dakota
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
I Have Started For Canaan: The Story of the African American Town of Sugarland
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
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
Sunrises and Sunsets for Freedom
Sunrises and Sunsets for Freedom
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
Sunrises and Sunsets for Freedom
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
Sunrises and Sunsets for Freedom
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
Proofing the Claim: Beginning of Black Homesteading in Nebraska
Unholiest Patrimony
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
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
Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
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
Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
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
A Little Matter Of Genocide
A Little Matter Of Genocide
Ward Churchill, Author
Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present
Black Genealogy
A Little Matter Of Genocide
A Little Matter Of Genocide
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