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Books
On Kander and Ebb
Kander, John, and Fred Ebb with Greg Lawrence. Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz. New York: Faber & Faber, 2004
On the Scottsboro Boys
Acker, James R. Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases that Challenged American Legal and Social Justice. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008
Carter, Dan T. Scottsboro: Tragedy of the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969
Goodman, James E. Stories of Scottsboro. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994
Haskins, James. The Scottsboro Boys. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1994
Howard, Walter T. Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008
Miller, James A. Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008
Norris, Clarence. The Last of the Scottsboro Boys: An Autobiography. New York: Putnam's, 1979
Patterson, Haywood. Scottsboro Boy. New York: Doubleday, 1950
On Minstrel Shows
Bean, Annemarie, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara (eds.) Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996
Cockrell, Dale. Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997
Lhamon Jr., W. T. Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998
Stark, Seymour. Men in Blackface: True Stories of the Minstrel Show. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corp.: 2000
Strausbaugh, John. Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture. New York: Penguin Group, 2006
Toll, Robert C. Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974
Wittke, Carl. Tambo and Bones: A history of the American Minstrel Stage. Westport, Conn.: Duke University Press, 1930
RELATED WEBSITES
On Kander and Ebb
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Explore the Arts. John Kander biography.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Explore the Arts. Fred Ebb biography.
The Telegraph. Obituary for Fred Ebb. September 14, 2004.
"Broadway: The American Musical" on PBS.org. John Kander and Fred Ebb biography. 2004.
On the Scottsboro Boys
"American Experience: Scottsboro, An American Tragedy" on PBS.org.
University of Missouri - Kansas City, Law School: Famous American Trials. "The Scottsboro Boys" 1931-1937.
