• African American History: Princeton, New Jersey (1850-1899)
  Deaths, marriages, family and church news transcribed from nineteenth-century newspapers.
• African-American Princetonians Are Honored As 'Unsung Heroes'
  Article by Candace Braun, Town Topics, February 23, 2005.
• The Albert E. Hinds Memorial Walking Tour: African-American Life in Princeton (Historical Society of Princeton)
• As Princeton Changes, a Black Community Fears for Future
  Article by Iver Peterson, New York Times, September 3, 2001.
• [Booker T. Washington and Grover Cleveland]
  A passage from Up from Slavery details the relationship between Washington and Cleveland and includes the information that Washington visited Cleveland at his Princeton home.
• Class Project Brings Community History to Life
  Students in Kathryn Watterson's writing seminar, Life Stories: Writing Oral History, collect oral histories of Princeton's African American residents. From the December 11, 2000, issue of Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
• A Community Remembers - African American Life in Princeton
  Online exhibition from The Historical Society of Princeton.
• Historical Society of Princeton's Digital Database
  Search african americans to see 87 historical photographs.
• The History of the African American Community in Princeton, New Jersey
  From PULSE (Pride Unity Leadership Sisterhood Esteem) of Princeton High School.
• [Letter from John Grier Hibben to Booker T. Washington] (The Booker T. Washington Papers)
  Booker T. Washington marched in the academic procession at the 1902 installation of Woodrow Wilson as Princeton University president. Details of his visit are in footnote 2.
• The Other Side of Paradise (Kathryn Federici Greenwood)
  Additional coverage of Kathryn Watterson's class and their oral histories project, from Princeton Alumni Weekly, May 14, 2003.
• Princeton History (Princeton Public Library)
  Hundreds of links to Princeton history and biography on the Web.
• Princeton's Blacks Fighting to Keep Their Area Intact
  Article by Lee A. Daniels, New York Times, July 16, 1981.
• Reminiscences of Colored People of Princeton, N.J., 1800-1900. (Anna Bustill Smith; 1913)
• Slavery at Princeton [University] (John Weeren, Seeley G. Mudd Library)
• That Side of Paradise (Jessica Lautin)
  The first of four articles about the John-Witherspoon neighborhood, from the Daily Princetonian, November 13, 2000. Also read Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four.
• Witherspoon Jackson Neighborhood Centerpiece Quilt (Arts Council of Princeton)
  
  
  

Last revised: February 23, 2011