African Americans in the U.S. Merchant Marine and U.S. Maritime Service
(http://www.usmm.org/african-americans.html)
This site provides profiles of various prominent African American merchant mariners. Also included are information on Liberty ships named in honor of famous African Americans.

African Americans.com (http://www.africanamericans.com/history.html)
Access to extensive information on African American history, including their seafaring experience in the Navy and Military. A special section is included on the Spanish slave schooner, Amistad.

African American History Month (http://www.loc.gov/topics/africanamericans/)
Library of Congress website dedicated to African American history month - honoring the efforts of the nation's African American forebears

African Americans During World War II (http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures/#mm)
The National Archives (Archives.gov) site for extensive audiovisual records of the African American experience during World War II, including Merchant Marine and Navy experience.

Selected Books Available at Luce Library (Click here for a bibliography of many more sources)

Circ VK221 .B65 1997
Bolster, W. J.
Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

Circ HD8039.S42 U617
Cohn, Michael & Michael K. H. Platzer
Black Men of the Sea

Circ VK23 .P87 1987
Putney, Martha S.
Black Sailors: Afro-American Merchant Seamen and Whalemen Prior to the Civil War

Circ VB324.A47 K56 2005
Knoblock, Glenn A.
Black Submariners in the United States Navy, 1940-1975

Circ E185.97.C96 C84 1996
Wiggins, Rosalind C. (editor)
Captain Paul Cuffe's Logs and Letters, 1808-1817

*G G540 .S645 2003 (GOVE Collection, 2nd floor)
Sokolow, Micheal
Charles Benson: Mariner of Color in the Age of Sail

Circ VK1430.A1 W75 2000
Wright, David & David Zoby
Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers

VB324.A47 N35 2003
Nalty, Bernard C.
Long Passage to Korea: Black Sailors and the Integration of the U. S. Navy

Circ D774.M36 K45 1999
Kelly, Mary P.
Proudly We Serve: The Men of the USS Mason

Circ E591 .R36 2002
Ramold, Steven J.
Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy