This is where my facts and info came from. Some great reads. So many great books and articles and documantires check 'em out. Return back for references
Alexander, Elizabeth (Editor, 1991) The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks. New York, NY: The Library of America
Baker, Miyuki & Imhotep, Ra Malika (2019) The Church of Black Feminist Thought. Minneapolis, MN: Bookmobile
Best, Wallace D. (2005) Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago. 1915-1952. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Black Jr., Timuel D. (2003) Bridges of Memory. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
Cottom, Tressie McMillan (2019) Thick. New York, NY: The New Press
De Veaux, Alexis (2004) Warrior Poet. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Ewing, Eve L. (2018) Ghosts in the Schoolyard. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Goldstein, Nancy (2008) Jackie Ormes The First African American Woman Cartoonist. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline (2016) Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Hast, Adele & Schultz, Rima Lunin (2001) Women Building Chicago 1790-1990. Bloomington & Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press
Joseph, Gloria I. & Rowe, Hortense M. (1990) Hell Under God’s Orders. St. Croix, VI: Winds of Change Press
Joseph, Gloria I. (2016) The Wind Is Spirit. New York, NY: Villarosa Media.
Kaba, Mariame & McDowell, Essence Lifting As They Climbed: Mapping a History of Black Women on Chicago’s South Side. Chicago, IL: Self Published
Laymon, Kiese (2018) Heavy. New York, NY: Scrib
Lorde, Audre (1970) A Burst of Light and Other Essays. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press.
Lorde, Audre (1978) The Black Unicorn. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Lorde, Audre ( 1984) Sister Outsider. New York, NY: Ten Speed Press.
Moore, Natalie Y. (2016) The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. New York, NY: St Martin’s Press
Wilkerson, Isabel (2010) The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York, NY: Vintage Books
Schlabach, Elizabeth Schroeder (2013) Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago’s Literary Landscape. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield, IL: University of Illinois Press
Dislocation, Written by Sudhir Venkatesh, WTTW National Productions, 2005
Interrupt the Pipeline, Flyboy Films, Maroon Productions, 2008
Audre Lorde Biography | Poetry Foundation
Beauty Turner's Blog: http://beautysghettobustours.blogspot.com/
Taking a Ghetto Bus Tour. NPR, 11 JULY 2017
Sayej, Nadja, The Subtle Radicalism of Cartoonist Jackie Ormes, Shonda Land. 6 March 2019
For Jackie: Brown Gal x Lil Hardin Armstrong (recorded in Chicago 1936)
Turiya and Ramakrishna x Alice Coltrane (1970) | Betty x Jamila Woods (2019)
Devotion: Snippets from Audre Lorde interviewed by Blanche Cook in 1982. Featuring poems The Evening News, A Song for Many Movements & A Litany for Survival | Whale Song x Mountain Man (2018)