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Gilded Girls Bibliography

The following are some of the texts which proved useful in research and inspiration for my YA Historical novels:
 

  1. The Senator and The Socialite: Lawrence Otis Graham

  2. Our Kind of People: Lawrence Otis Graham

  3. Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth Century New York City: Carla L. Peterson

  4. Black Bourgeoisie: E. Franklin Frazier

  5. Black Pioneers an Untold Story: William Loren Katz

  6. Black Firsts: Jessie Carney Smith

  7. Winds of the Storm: Beverly Jenkins

  8. The Wind Done Gone: Alice Randall

  9. Wench: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

  10. Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen: Phillip Dray

  11. Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation’s Capital, 1880-1920: Jacqueline M. Moore

  12. Capital Elites: High Society in Washington, D.C., after the Civil War: Kathryn Allamong Jacob

 

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