Works referenced

Episode 1 : Sundown

  Cover image of the Green Book compendium  Cover of Grodon Parks: Segregation Story

The Negro Motorist Green Book Compendium originally complied by Victor H. Green ; compiled and notes by Nat Gertler

Charles L. Blockson Personal and Literary papers

Sundown Towns: a Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen

Traveling Black by Mia Bay

Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists, 1941-2004 (primarily 1956-1974)

Jerry Doyle Papers (Selma, Alabama)

African American Artists Exhibit Announcements, 1927-1982 (Gordon Parks)

Gordon Parks: Segregation Story with contributions by Michael E. Shapiro, Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Maurice Berger, and Brett Abbott

The Outsider and Others by H. P. Lovecraft, collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei

The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft with a preface by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.

Dracula by Bram Stoker with illustrations by Edward Gorey, introduction and appendices by Marvin Kaye

The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, frontispiece by Frank E. Schoonover

Episode 2 : Whitey’s on the Moon

A poster for a Black Freemason event in Cincinnati picturing a Black man in a suit walking up stairs of power, religion, education, and finance.

Aleister Crowley Papers, 1905-1929

Fifteenth Biennial Conclave, Grand Encampment: 15th Biennial International Conference, Haly Royal Arch Masons of the United States of America and Dominion of Canada: Masonic Knights Templar of the United States of America and Dominion of Canada: International Conference of Grand Guilds, Heroines Templars Crusade of the United States of America and the Bahama Islands: August 17, 18, 19, 1958 at Prince Hall Masonic Temple, 802 East 42nd Place, Chicago, Illinois souvenir program

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé ; translated by Richard Philcox, foreword by Angela Y. Davis, afterword by Ann Armstrong Scarboro

The House on the Borderland: and Other Novels by William Hope Hodgson

Episode 3 : Holy Ghost

red-lined map of Philadelphia in 1934

Commercial and Residential Philadelphia, 1934 (redline map)

White Rage: the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

Julius Lazarus Photographs and Related Materials, circa 1910-2008, photographs of Paul Robeson

Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present by Harriet A. Washington

Caring for equality : a history of African American health and healthcare by David McBride

Charles L. Blockson Collection on Paul Robeson, 1894-2005

Pennsylvania State University, HUB-Robeson Galleries Records, 1989-2002

Psychic Instrument: Thursday Sittings at II PI: (Seances 1944-1945): Manuscript

Heinz K. and Bridget A. Henisch Collection of the History of Photography, 1842-1995

Charles L. Blockson Collection on Marian Anderson, 1938-1997

Episode 4 : History of Violence

The cover page of an account of the tirals of witches 

A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches With the observations of a person who was upon the place several days when the suspected witches were first taken into examination. To which is added, Cases of conscience concerning witchcrafts and evil spirits personating men. Written at the request of the ministers of New-England. By Increase Mather, president of Harvard Colledge (1693)

Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett

Love after the end : an anthology of two-spirit & indigiqueer speculative fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead

The Deep by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes

Charles L. Blockson Collection of African Americana and the African Diaspora

The Trial Record of Denmark Vesey introduction by John Oliver Killens

African Methodist Episcopal Church Programs and Conference Publications, 1909-1958

Episode 5 : Strange Case

Cover image of The Black Flamingo  Front page of the the Walker 1949 Almanac

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Women of the Ku Klux Klan Application Materials, 1923-1927

Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

Black History Ephemera, 1903-1977: Southern Women and Lynching Pamphlet

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntosake Shange; drawings by Wopo Holup

The Walker 1949 Almanac: a Personal Guide to Health, Wealth and Romance by the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company

Our N*g, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson; edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Reginald H. Pitts; introduction by P. Gabrielle Foreman

Our N*g, or, Sketches from the life of a free Black : in a two-story white house, North, showing that slavery’s shadows fall even there by Harriet E. Wilson

The Black flamingo by Dean Atta

Early Male Tightlacing, Corsetting, and Cross-Dressing scrapbook collection

Colored Domestic Servants Security Organization constitution and by-laws, 1942

America: red, white, black, yellow by Arthur Huff Fauset and Nellie Rathbone Bright; illustrated by Shirley P. Whitman

Episode 6 : Meet Me in Daegu

Cover image of Jim Crow "Justice" In Korea the Case of Lieutenant Gilbert

Black History Ephemera, 1903-1977: Jim Crow “Justice” in Korea, the Case of Lieutenant Leon Gilbert New York: Trade Union Youth Committee for the Freedom of Lieut. Gilbert, n.d.

24th Infantry Regiment Japanese Occupation Family Scrapbook

GlitterShip. Year 2 edited by Keffy R.M. Kehrli

Cooking with Closed Mouths, a gumiho short story by Kerry Truong

The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexander Dumas; with an introduction by Andre ́Maurois & many illustrations by Lynd Ward

Robert T. Oliver Papers, 1949-1970

Syngman Rhee: The Man Behind the Myth

Verdict in Korea

Why War Came to Korea

The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement by Lance Hill

World War I Glass Plate Stereographs

Episode 7 : I Am.

Cover image of Mothership  Illustrated book cover for the women soldiers of Dahomey

Search for works on Afrofuturism

Afrofuturist Musical Works by Sun Ra

Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun-Ra, El Saturn and Chicago’s Afro-futurist underground 1954-68 curated by John Corbett, Anthony Elms and Terri Kapsalis

Parliament’s Mothership Connection

Wild seed by Octavia E. Butler

Kindred: a graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings

Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the sower a graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings ; introduction by Nalo Hopkinson

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy

Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond edited by Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall

Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown; foreword by Sheree Renée Thomas

Charles L. Blockson Collection on Josephine Baker, 1928-2003

The Women Soldiers of Dahomey. Illustrations: Pat Masioni, Script and text: Sylvia Serbin ; Pedagogical unit: Text: Edouard Joubeaud, Scientific validation: Joseph Adande

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley; with memoirs, by W.H. Jackson: Includes biographic sketches of Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker, Thomas Fuller and James Durham

Banneker’s Almanac, for the Year 1795: Being the Third After Leap Year Containing, (besides every thing necessary in an almanac,) an account of the yellow fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia; with the number of those who died, from the first of August till the ninth of November, 1793

A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793: and a Refutation of Some Censures Thrown Upon Them in Some Late Publications by A.J. and R.A.

Hidden Figures: the Untold True Story of Four African-American Women who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly

Episode 8 : Jig-a-Bobo

Cover image of Don't you turn back  I, too

Charles L. Blockson Posters and Graphics Collection, 1970-2006 (Cream of Wheat Posters)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Don’t You Turn Back poems by Langston Hughes; selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins; woodcuts by Ann Grifalconi

Negroes : a handbook by Tia Blassingame

Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing

The Julius Quadrilles arranged from Christy’s melodies by John C. Scherpf (Minstrel songs: Stop dat knocking)

Episode 9 : Rewind 1921

 Image of Sonia Sanchez with two young children from her poem pamphlet

Ashes to Ashes: a Homegoing Celebration for the Unburied by Dr. Shirley Ann Whitaker

Letter from Emily Wilmarth, Amityville, New York, to Annie E. Trembly, Hudson City, New Jersey, 1866 October 23, about a race protest: autograph manuscript

Sonia Sanchez Letter and Poem, 1969-1971

Black History Ephemera, 1903-1977 (Sonia Sanchez)

Greyhound Celebrates Black History Month Posters, 1999-2005 (Jackie Robinson and baseball)

Jerry Doyle papers (Jackie Robinson cartoon)

Episode 10 : Full circle

 On the Cover of Accessing the Future, a serene black woman rotates in her space suit above earth  Cover image of Lovecraft Country

Xenogenesis by Octavia E. Butler

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

Accessing the future : a disability-themed speculative fiction anthology edited by Kathryn Allan & Djibril al-Ayad

Afro Puffs Are the Antennae of the Universe by Zig Zag Claybourne

Animated Objects by Linda D. Addison

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

Bitter Root by David F. Walker, Chuck Browne, and Sanford Greene

The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

Demonstra : poems by Bryan Thao Worra

Excellence by Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph, and Emilio Lopez

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead and Other Stories by Randall Kenan

The Living Blood by Tananarive Due

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl

Nine Bar Blues : Stories from an Ancient Future by Sheree Renée Thomas

People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy! guest edited by Daniel José Older

Stitched Lips : an anthology of horror from silenced voices edited by Ken MacGregor

Walking the Clouds: an Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction edited by Grace L. Dillon