Primary Sources:
- Angelou, Maya. Harold Bloom, editor. 1996. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York :Chelsea House Publishers.
- Buchanan, Beverly. Rituals and Ruins. 1981. Brooklyn, New York Museum. Database: https://artsy.net/show
- Catlett, Elizabeth. Student’s Aspire. 1997. Howard University. Washington, D.C.
- Fauset, Jessie Edmon. Plum Bun. 1928. New York.
- Hurston, Zora Neal. Their Eyes Were Watching God. 18 September 1937. J.B. Lippincott & Co.
- Jones, Lois Mailou. La Baker Painting. 1977. Contemporary Art. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
- The Tulsa Star Newspaper. 19 Aug. 1914. Negro Women’s Club Work in Oklahoma. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
- Thomas, Alma. Apollo 12 Splash Down. 1970. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York. https://Artsy.net
- Thomas, Lillian J. B. Federation of Colored Women. 7 April 1987. Association of Indianapolis. Colonial Revival Architecture.
- Savage, Augusta. The Harp. 1937. World’s Fair. https://exhibitions.nypl.org
- Simone, Nina. 1 June 1965. Feeling Good.
- Stewart, Ollie. Zora Hurston In Haiti Writing Her Fourth Book. 7 August 1997. Bay Bottoms News. http://baybottomnews.com/zora-was-never-happy-with-her-own-work/
- Women’s Political Council. Untitled leaflet. 5 December 1955.
- In Essence, a Celebration of Black Women. Unknown leaflet.1996. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/07/business/the-media-business-in-essence-acelebration-of-black-women.html
Secondary Sources:
- Williams, Stereo. The Most Disrespected Person in America Is Still the Black Woman. 9 Apr 2017.
- Foner, Eric. 2008. Give Me Liberty: An American History. Volume 2. 5th New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
- Soto, Michael. 2016. Measuring the Harlem Renaissance. Amherst: Uni. of Massachusetts Press.
- Smethurst, James Edward. 2005. The Black Arts Chapel Hill: The Uni. of North Carolina Press.
- Fox, Regis M. 2017. Resistance Reimagined: Black Women’s Critical Thought as Survival. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN: 9780813056586
- Howard, William L. America in Black and White. June 1998. Magill’s Literary Annual. pp. 1-4.
- West, Elizabeth. African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being. Lanham: Lexington Books.
- Fisher, Adriana Renee. 2018. I Am Because We Are, and Because We Are, Therefore I Am: The Role of Christianity in the Cultivation of a Psychological Sense of Belonging in the Lives of African American Women. Illinois and Lexington, Kentucky. DAI. Section B: Sciences & Engineering.