The Arizona Collection is a continuation of the 1864 Territorial Library. It contains books, periodicals, city and county reports, and vertical files related to the history, government, culture, and people of Arizona and the Southwest.
Please contact the Research Library for an appointment to review print resources.
Books available for perusal in the Reading Room include:
808s and Otherworlds: Memories, Remixes, and Mythologies by Sean Avery Medlin
A Pictorial History of Black Soldiers in the United States (1619-1969) in Peace and War edited by Jesse J. Johnson.
African American Churches in Tucson: A Report of the African American History Internship Project edited by Harry Lawson
African American Historic Property Survey: City of Phoenix by David R. Dean
African-American School Segregation in Arizona from 1863-1954 by Jackie Lynn Byrd
African American Settlers in Tucson: A Report of the African American History Internship Project edited by Harry Lawson
African American Women Confront the West: 1600-2000 edited by Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
African American Women of the Old West by Tricia Martineau Wagner
African Americans and Arizona's Three C's: Cotton, Copper, Cattle: 1992 Supplement to Black Heritage Trails and Tails of Tucson and Old Fort Huachuca by Gloria L. Smith
African Americans in Aviation in Arizona: A Report of the African American History Intern Project edited by Harry Lawson
African Americans on the Western Frontier by Monroe Lee Billington
Black Americana in Arizona: with 1992 Supplement of African Americana in Arizona by Gloria L. Smith
Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz
Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier by Art T. Burton
Black Cowboys by Paul W. Stewart
Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, On the Stage, Behind the State edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles
Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West by Lillian Schlissel
Black Heritage in Arizona by Richard Harris
Black Heroes of the Wild West by Ruth Pelz
The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891 by Arlen L. Fowler
Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier, first edition by John Ravage
Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier, second edition by John Ravage
The Black Regulars, 1866-1898 by William A. Dobak
Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898 by Frank N. Schubert
The Black West by William Loren Katz (third edition; revised and expanded)
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States by William Loren Katz
Black Women of the Old West by William Loren Katz
Blacks and their contributions to the American West : a bibliography and union list of library holdings through 1970 by James de T. Abajian
The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West by William H. Leckie
"Buffalo Soldiers": An Illustrated 30 Year History of the 10th Regiment of the U. S. Cavalry by David Laughlin
Buffalo Soldiers and Officers of the Ninth Cavalry 1867-1989: Black and White Together by Charles L. Kenner
Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles
Buffalo Soldiers in the Old Southwest: Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs by Ron Swartley
A Buffalo Soldier's Story: Medal of Honor Recipient Sergeant Thomas Boyne and His Comrades, 1864 to 1889 by William A. Aleshire
Buffalo Soldier Regiment: History of the 25th United States Infantry, 1869-1926 by John. H. Nankivell
Buffalo Soldiers West by John M. Carroll
Books available for perusal in the Reading Room include:
Child of the Fighting Tenth: On the Frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers by Forrestine C. Hooker
Crossing Borders, Erasing Boundaries: Interethnic Marriages in Tucson, 1854-1930 by Salvador Acosta
Discrimination in the Desert: Contesting Jim Crowism in Phoenix, Arizona by John Dominic Scheuer
Dunbar: the Neighborhood, the School, and the People, 1940-1965 by Aloma J. Barnes
Dunbar School, Shared Memories of a Special Part: A Report of the African American Internship Project edited by Harry Lawson
Economic and Cultural Progress of the Negro, Phoenix, Arizona by Warren M. Banner
Fairfax W. Burnside Fights Segregation in the Douglas School System by Cindy Hayostek
The First 100 Years: A History of Arizona Blacks by Richard Harris
From Dunbar to Destiny: One Woman's Journey Through Desegregation and Beyond by Shirley Jean Sprinkles
General Crook in the Indian Country by John Gregory Bourke
Hallelujah Hats Volume 1 by Bruce Nelson
Henry Ossian Flipper : West Point's First Black Graduate by Jane Eppinga
The History of African Americans in Tucson: An Afrocentric Perspective by Harry Lawson
History of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, United States Infantry, 1869-1926 by John Henry Nankivell
In Search of Black Phoenicians: African American Culture and Community in Phoenix, Arizona, 1868-1940, by Matthew C. Whitaker
In Search of the Racial Frontier: African, Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 by Quintard Taylor
Indiscernibles in Arizona edited by Clottee Hammons
The Invisible Citizens of Douglas, 1900-1948 by Wilola C. Follett
J. Mason Brewer, Negro Folklorist by James W. Byrd
The Last Buffalo: Walter Potts and 92nd "Buffalo" Division in World War I by E. B. Hogan
The Matthew Henson Community: Phoenix's African American Public Housing Project by Jean A. Reynolds
Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality by Elizabeth D. Leonard
Minorities in Phoenix: A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992 by Bradford Luckingham
Minorities in the Sunbelt by Franklin J. James
The Negro in Arizona; a Bibliographical Compilation by Ann M. Sawyer
The Negro Cowboys by Philip Durham
Negro Education in Tucson, Arizona by Ida O. Williams Zanders
New Mexico's buffalo soldiers, 1866-1900 by Monroe Lee Billington
Not all Okies are White: The Lives of Black Cotton Pickers in Arizona by Greta J. LeSeur
On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier: Biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 by Frank N. Schubert
Porch Stories by Bruce Nelson
Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West by Matthew C. Whitaker
Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America 1848-1890 by Arnoldo De Leon
Shining Through the Clouds: An Historical Case Study of Dunbar, a Segregated School in Tucson, Arizona by Andrea Juliette Lightbourne
Under fire with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry by Herschel V. Cashin
Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West by Frank N. Schubert
Western Resistance: Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale and the Transformation of the Black Freedom Struggle in the American West by Matthew C. Whitaker
The Yesteryears by Hayward J. Camper
Additional Resources
Directories that are available for perusal in the Reading Room:
Periodicals that are available for perusal in the Reading Room:
Subject and biographical vertical files that are available for perusal in the Reading Room: