African Americans

LaPorte County Indiana

  • “African Methodist Protestant Meeting House-Election of Trustees, March 31, 1845.” Recorder Book O, Page 412, March 6, 1845. La Porte County Historical Society Archives.

  • “At Rest.” La Porte Daily Herald, November 21, 1892, page 3, col. 5.

  • “First Colored Persons of La Porte County.” Charles Cochran Papers, La Porte County Historical Society Archives.

  • Eddy-Shultz, Fern. “Early Black History of La Porte County, Indiana” La Porte, Indiana: La Porte County Historical Society, 2014. (County historian’s presentation file)

  • “General Index of Deeds #1 Grantee, April 1833–April 1848, La Porte County, Indiana.” Deed Book H, page 442. County Recorder’s Office, LaPorte, Indiana.

  • “General Index of Deeds #1 Grantee, April 1833-April 1848, La Porte County, Indiana.” Deed Book F, page 179 and 188. County Recorder’s Office, La Porte, Indiana.

  • Goldsworthy, Terry. “Kankakee & St. Joseph River Valleys of Indiana.” in Underground Rail-road Research in Select Indiana Counties, 89-121. Indianapolis: Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, 2003.

  • Goldsworthy, Terry. “Was Freedom Dead or Only Sleeping?: The pre-1870 African American Rural Communities of the Kankakee River Valley.” Black History News & Notes, November, 1997.

  • Hickman, Russell and Elvis Oats, “Quaker Meetings and Cemetery in La Porte.” La Porte County Historical Society Archives, Society of Friends [vertical file.]

  • Higgins, Belden & Company. An Illustrated Historical Atlas of La Porte Co., Indiana. Chicago: The Company, 1874.

  • History of La Porte County, Indiana: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Townships : Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens: History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of the Pre-Historic Races, Aborigines, French, English, and American Conquests, and a General Review of Its Civil, Political, and Military History. Chicago: Chas. C. Chapman & Company, 1880.

  • Jessen, Julie K. “African-American Culture and History Northwestern Indiana 1850-1940.” Masters thesis, Ball State University, 1996.

  • La Porte County Historical Society. Combined Atlases of La Porte County, Indiana, 1874-1892, 1907-1921. Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1998.

  • McDougald, Lois C. “Negro Migration into Indiana, 1800-1860.” Masters thesis, Indiana University, 1945.

  • Thornbrough, Emma Lou. The Negro in Indiana before 1900: A Study of a Minority. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Lake County

  • Millender, Dharathula H. Yesterday in Gary: A brief history of the Negro in Gary. Gary, Ind.: D. Millender, 1967.

  • Mohl, Raymond A. and Neil Betten. Steel City: Urban and Ethnic Patterns in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1950. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986.

  • Thornbrough, Emma Lou. Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century. Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2000

Porter County

  • Goldsworthy, Terry. “Was Freedom Dead or Only Sleeping?: The pre-1870 African American Rural Communities of the Kankakee River Valley.” Black History News & Notes, November, 1997.

  • Hardesty, A. G. Illustrated Historical Atlas of Porter County, Indiana, 1876. Evansville, Ind: Unigraphic, 1979 (reprint).

  • Harrison, Wendy. “Wendy Harrison’s Family Page.” Ancestry.com- Family Tree Guide. Accessed July 10, 2014.

  • “Indiana African American Survey of Historic Sites and Structures,” Library Collection, Indiana Landmarks State Headquarters, Indianapolis

  • Jessen, Julie K. “African-American Culture and History Northwestern Indiana 1850-1940.” Masters thesis, Ball State Univeristy, 1996.

  • Obituary—”Ben Buford Huston.” Westville Indicator, July 18, 1907.

  • Office of the Recorder of Porter County, Indiana. 1875 Enumeration Record Porter County. [In LaPorte County Historian’s folder


Newton County

  • Andreas, A. T. Map of Newton County: Map of White County. s.l.: s.n., 1876.

  • Born, Gerald M. et. al., comp. Cemeteries of Newton County, Indiana, 2 vols. Kentland, Indiana: Newton County Historical Society, 1996.

  • Hall, Susie and Beth Bassett. “Morgan Tracey Cemetery.” Directory of Cemeteries – Newton County, Indiana. Accessed June 25, 2014.

  • Hiestand, Joseph E. An Archaeological Report on Newton County, Indiana. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1951.

  • Index to Marriage Records, Newton County, Indiana, 1860-1920, Inclusive. Kentland, Indiana: s.n., 1968.

  • Standard Atlas of Newton County, Indiana: Including a Plat Book of the Villages, Cities and Townships of the County … Patrons Directory, Reference Business Directory. Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co, 1916.