History 332

An African American Community in Maine:  Uncovering communities within communities

  • Maureen Elgersman Lee, Black Bangor:  African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880-1950 (2005).

Further reading:

  • H.H. Price and Gerald E. Talbot, Maine’s Visible Black History:  The First Chronicle of Its People (2006).
  • Maureen Elgersman Lee, “‘What They Lack in Numbers’:  Locating Black Portland, 1870-1930,” in Joseph A. Conforti, ed., Creating Portland:  History and Place in Northern New England (2005), 218-246.

Guidelines forthcoming.