Bibliography
Adams, Bill. The Shelton Gang: They Played in Peoria! Xlibris, 2005.
"All American Cities: The National Municipal League and Look Magazine Salute this Year's Winners," Look Magazine. March 1, 1960.
Angle, Paul. Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness. Urbana: University of Illinois P, 1992.
Aschenbrenner, Joyce. Katherine Dunham: Dancing a Life. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002.
Barnes, Harper. Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights
Movement. New York: Walker and Co., 2008.
Clark, VeVe A. and Sara E. Johnson, eds. Kaiso! Writings by and about Katherine Dunham. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
Clayton, Sheryl H. Black Men Role Models of Greater St. Louis, East St. Louis: Essai Seay Publications, 1984.
Collins, Lisa Gail and Margo Natalie Crawford, eds. New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Colten, Craig E. Environmental Development in East St. Louis Region, 1890-1970. Sp/Su 1990. Environmental History Review. 92-114.
"Conversation: Eugene Redmond and Jabari Asim." The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry. Ed Joanne V. Gabbin. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
DuBois, W.E.B. "The Massacre of East St. Louis.." Crisis 14 (September 1917): 219-38.
Early, Gerald. "The Art of Muscle: Miles Davis as American Knight and American Knave". In Gerald Early, ed. Miles Davis and American Culture. Missouri Historical Society Press, 2001. 2-23.
------. Ed. Ain't But a Place: An Anthology of African American Writings about St. Louis. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1998.
Forbes, Flores Alexander. Will You Die With Me? My Life and the Black Panther Party. New York: Washington Square P, 2006.
Gabbin, Joanne V. Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2004.
Garvey, Marcus. "Conspiracy of the East St. Louis Riots." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/filmmore/ps_riots.html
Hamilton, Clementine R. The Ebony Tree. 1971. ["This book was compiled to illustrate the little known fact that East St. Louis Negroes have accomplished some fine things in education, science, medicine, fine arts, industry, religion and family life."]
Joyner-Kersee, Jackie. A Kind of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete. New York: Warner Books, 1997.
Kozol, Jonothan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991.
Looker, Benjamin. BAG Point from Which Creation Begins: The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press: 2004.
Lumpkins, Charles L. American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008.
McLaughlin, Malcolm. Power, Community and Racial Killing in East St. Louis. New York: Palgrave, 2005.
Moore, Debra H. and Andrew Theising. "Hollow Prize of East St. Louis: How Institutional Function and Institutional Culture Limited a City's Future." Journal of Illinois History, 11.1 2008. 17-38.
Nunes, Bill. Coming of Age in '40s and '50s East St. Louis. 1995.
----. East Saint Louis Illinois: Year-by-year Illustrated History. Dexter, MI. Thomson-Shore Inc., 1998.
Onwueme, Tess. "Another African Artist's Wayward Thoughts on Eugene Redmond's Poetry." Of Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers, ed. Femi Ojo-Ade. Westport: Greenwood P, 1996.
Pensoneau, Taylor. Brothers Notorious: The Sheltons: Southern Illinois. Legendary Gangsters, New Berlin, IL: Downstate Publications, 2002.
Perseverance and Progress: A History of the East St. Louis Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1995.
Pfeifer, Sandra. Against All the Odds [A Documentary about East St. Louis] in production.
Redmond, Eugene. "So What. (?). . .It's All Blues. Anyway: An Anecdotal/Jazzological Tour of Milesville." In Gerald Early, ed. Miles Davis and American Culture. Missouri Historical Society Press, 2001. 44-57.
Selections from Drumvoices Revue.
The Sentry of Four Golden Pillars. (1970)
Rudwick, Elliott. "Fifty Years of Race Relations in East St. Louis: The Breaking Down of White Supremacy." Midcontinent American Studies Journal. 6. 1, 1965: 3-15.
Smethurst, James Edward. The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Szwed, John. So What: The Life of Miles Davis. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Theising, Andrew J. Made in U.S.A. East St. Louis: The Rise and Fall of an Industrial River Town. St. Louis: Virginia Publishing, 2003.
