• African Americans and Princeton University: A History in Brief (Tad Bennicoff, Seeley G. Mudd Library)
  Some of the students mentioned here were residents of Princeton (Bruce M. Wright and Joseph Ralph Moss) or clergy in Princeton churches (the Rev. I.W.L. Roundtree at Mt. Pisgah and the Rev. George Shippen Stark at Witherspoon Presbyterian).
• Colored Instructor Dead (The New York Times, January 4, 1903)
  Registration (free) required.
• First African-American Alumni Remember Journey to Integration
  Article by Kelly Lack, The Daily Princetonian, February 18, 2008.
• The Harmonies of Struggle and Liberty
  The African American experience at Princeton Theological Seminary, from the Summer, 1998, issue of inSpire. The fourth page of the article has a section on Betsey Stockton.
• The History of the African American Community in Princeton, New Jersey: Education (PULSE, Princeton High School)
• Lincoln University: College and Theological Seminary, Biographical Catalogue, 1918.
  Includes biographical information on many people who lived or worked in Princeton:  Reading Beatty Johns (p. 6), Thomas Lavendar Schenck (p. 7), William D. Robeson (p. 12), Arthur B. Davis (p. 31), Irving W. L. Roundtree (p. 32-33), Samuel J. Onque (p. 39), Charles H. Jones (p. 60), Joseph W. Miller (p. 64), Leonard Z. Johnson (p. 65), George S. Stark (p. 69), LeGrande M. Onque (p. 84), Lilburn C. Hurdle (p. 93), Richard A. Rice (p. 96), Joseph W. Rhetta (p. 103), Harrison H. Cain (p. 108).  Large PDF file (6.6 MB); requires Acrobat Reader.
• Mr. Dumar Watkins (G.F. Richings, Evidences of Progress Among Colored People; 1902)
  A short biographical note and photograph of Alexander Dumas Watkins, Princeton University's first African-American instructor.
• A Princeton Pioneer (Mark F. Bernstein, Princeton Alumni Weekly)
  June 7, 2006 article, subtitled "When Joseph Ralph Moss ’51 broke through the color line."  Also available from Association of Black Princeton Alumni.
• Princeton Regional Schools History
  Don't miss the individual school histories.
• The Teacher's Influence (A.P. Denny)
  Go to page 137 of the Alumni Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1 (November, 1884) of Lincoln University for this essay by the principal of the Witherspoon Street School. Large PDF file (11.72 MB); requires Acrobat Reader.
• When Princeton Attacked Jim Crow
  Article by Vicki Hyman, The Star-Ledger, February 8, 2008.
• Witherspoon School for the Colored
  
  
  

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