1) James D. Anderson, Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1988, pp. 148-237.

2) Sarah Patton Boyle, The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition, (New York: William Morrow, 1962).

3) Maxwell R. Brooks, The Negro Press Re-examined, (Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1959).

4) Fredrick G. Detweiler, The Negro Press in the United States, (College Park, Maryland: McGrath Publishing Company, 1968).

5) Jeanette Thomas Greenwood, Bittersweet Legacy: The Black and White "Better Classes" in Charlotte, 1850-1910, Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1994, pp. 77-113.

6) Augustus Low, Ed., Encyclopedia of Black America, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1981.

7) Mpho Mabunda, Ed., The African American Almanac, Gale Research Inc., 1997.

8) Jennifer Ritterhouse. "Speaking of Race: Sarah Patton Boyle and the 'T. J. Sellers Course for Backward Southern Whites'," Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History, ed. Martha Hodes, New York: NYU Press (forthcoming January 1999).

9) T.J. Sellers, "The Task Before Us Now" (speech given at Freedom Fund dinner, Charlottesville, Nov. 21, 1962), Sarah Patton Boyle Papers (no. 8003).

* Many of the images used on our site can be found in Angnes Cross-White's Charlottesville: The African-American Community (Arcadia Publishing, 1998).