Buffalo, NY

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Basics

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

In the Library: Articles

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Besag, Frank & Philip Cook. Anatomy of a Riot: Buffalo, 1967 (Buffalo: U. of Buffalo, 1970).

Childs, John Brown. The Political Black Minister: A Study in Afro-American Politics & Religion (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980).

Klinkenborg, Verlyn. The Last Fine Time (NY: Knopf, 1991). Family of Polish-American saloon keepers.

Kraus, Neil. Race, Neighborhoods & Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1934-1997 (Albany: SUNY, 2000).

Pienkos, Angela T. Ethnic Politics in Urban America: The Polish Experience in Four Cities (Chicago: Polish American Historical Association, 1978).

Shapiro, Ivor. What God Allows: The Crisis of Faith & Conscience in One Catholic Church (NY: NY: Doubleday, 1996). St. Paul's in Buffalo.

Shelton, Brenda K. Reformers in Search of Yesterday: Buffalo in the 1890's (Albany: SUNY, 1978).

Swados, Elizabeth. The Four of Us: The Story of a Family (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Taylor, Steven J.L. Desegregation in Boston & Buffalo: The Influence of Local Leaders (Albany: SUNY, 1998).

In the Library: Fiction

Belfer, Lauren. City of Light (NY: Dial, 1999). Politics & progress in late 19th c.

Perry, Thomas. Vanishing Act (NY: Random House, 1995).

__________. Dance for the Dead (NY: Random House, 1996).

__________. Shadow Woman (NY: Random House, 1997).

__________. The Face-Changers: A Novel (NY: Random House, 1998).

__________. Blood Money: A Novel (NY: Random House, 1999).

Porter, Connie Rose. Imani All Mine (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999). African American teen-age mother.

Reisman, Nancy. The First Desire (NY: Pantheon, 2004). Jewish community.

Simmons, Dan. Hard Freeze: A Joe Kurtz Novel (NY: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002).

In the Library: For Young Readers

In the Library: Poetry

In the Library: Drama

In the Library: Photography

CD & Audio

Film & Video

"Frame-Up: The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre" [1974], dir. Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher & Howard Blatt, 30m. Buffalo Black activist & bookstore owner.