The following selections have been reprinted with permission of the authors and/or the publishers.
Otis A. Singletary, “The Negro Militia During Radical Reconstruction,” Military Affairs 19 (Winter 1955): 177–186. Minor editorial changes.
Roger D. Cunningham, “‘They Are as Proud of Their Uniform as Any Who Serve Virginia’: African American Participation in the Virginia Volunteers, 1872–99,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 110.3 (2002): 293–338.
Alwyn Barr, “The Black Militia of the New South: Texas as a Case Study,” Journal of Negro History 63 (July 1978): 209–219.
Eleanor L. Hannah, “A Place in the Parade: Citizenship, Manhood and African American Men in the Illinois National Guard, 1870–1917,” Journal of Illinois History 5 (Summer 2002): 82–108.
Beth Taylor Muskat, “The Last March: The Demise of the Black Militia in Alabama.” Originally appearing in The Alabama Review, Volume 43, January 1990, pages 18–34. The Alabama Historical Association, founded in 1947, is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The Association sponsors The Alabama Review, two newsletters each year, a state historical marker program, and several Alabama history awards. More information on the Association is available at http://www.archives.state.al.us/aha/aha.html.
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