Sources for this exhibit include the following:

* On the general history of segregation at The Catholic University of America, see C. Joseph Nuesse, “Segregation and Desegregation at the Catholic University of America,” Washington History, Spring/Summer, 1997). See also Nuesse’s general work on the history of the University: The Catholic University of America, A Centennial History (The Catholic University of America Press: Washington, D.C., 1990).

* On Thomas Wyatt Turner’s experience with the University, see Marilyn Nickels “Thomas Wyatt Turner and the Federated Colored Catholics.” U.S. Catholic Historian, vol. 7, no. 2/3, 1988, pp. 215–232. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25153830. Accessed 12 Jan. 2021. 

* On William Tecumseh Sherman Jackson, see Nuesse, “Segregation and Desegregation,” 58; Nuesse, The Catholic University of America, 115. “A Slice of History,” Amherst Magazine, Winter 2007: 

https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/magazine/issues/2007_winter/blazing/slice. 

* On the integration of Catholic Sisters College, see Nuesse, “Segregation and Desegregation,” 60; Shannen Dee Williams, August 3, 2020: https://twitter.com/BlkNunHistorian/status/1290346942388723712; Roy DeFerrari, Memoirs of The Catholic University of America, 1918-1960 (Daughters of St. Paul: Boston, 1962), 281-289. 

* On Euphemia Lofton Haynes, see Maria Mazzenga, “The Archivist’s Nook: African American History? You’re Standing On It,” February 4, 2016: https://www.lib.cua.edu/wordpress/newsevents/7329/; Finding aid to the Haynes Lofton Family Papers: https://libraries.catholic.edu/special-collections/archives/collections/finding-aids/finding-aids.html?file=haynes-lofton

* On Cyprian Davis, see Maria Mazzenga, “The Archivist’s Nook: African American History Related Collections,” November 17, 2020: https://www.lib.cua.edu/wordpress/newsevents/13467/

* On Sister Thea Bowman, see Shane MacDonald, “The Archivist’s Nook: Sister Bowman Goes to Washington, March 23, 2020:  https://www.lib.cua.edu/wordpress/newsevents/12482/; Rachel Wood and Valerie McGraw,“Sister Thea, Our Saint in the Making,” Department of English of The Catholic University of America Newsletter, February, 2019: “https://english.catholic.edu/about-us/newsletter/february-2019-newsletter/article-sr-thea.html

* On Gilbert Hartke, see Mary Jo Santo Pietro, Father Hartke: His Life and Legacy to the American Theater, (The Catholic University of America Press: Washington, D.C., 2002), 157-172.

The Tower student newspaper (online and in print) covers civil rights activities on campus in 1964: http://tower.lib.cua.edu/Olive/APA/CatholicUniversity/Print.Article.aspx?mode=image&href=TTR%2F1964%2F04%2F24&id=Ar00104

On Samuel Williams and the BOS-CUA (also known as the BOSACUA): 

Nuesse, The Catholic University of America, 448; The Tower student newspaper online has several issues covering Williams and the BOS-CUA:

http://tower.lib.cua.edu/Olive/APA/CatholicUniversity/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TTR%2F1969%2F03%2F14&id=Ar00901&sk=06DA1EEF&viewMode=image; http://tower.lib.cua.edu/Olive/APA/CatholicUniversity/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TTR%2F1970%2F04%2F24&id=Ar00306&sk=25FDFAB7&viewMode=image; http://tower.lib.cua.edu/Olive/APA/CatholicUniversity/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TTR%2F1971%2F01%2F22&id=Ar00604&sk=D0278206&viewMode=image