Further Reading

Buhle, Paul.  Working Lives:  An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Providence:  Rhode Island Historical Society, 1987)

Cogdell, Christina. Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)

Fitts, Robert K., Inventing New England’s Slave Paradise: Master/Slave Relations in Eighteenth Century Narragansett, Rhode Island (New York: Garland Publishers, 1998)

Marling, Karal A.  Wall to Wall America: A Cultural History of Post-Office Murals in the Great Depression (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982)

McBurney, Christian M. A History of Kingston, R.I. 1700-1900 (Kingston, R.I.: Pettaquamscutt Historical Society, 2004)

Melish, Joanne Pope. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998)

O'Connor, Francis V.  Art for the Millions (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphics Society, 1973)

Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz.  Democratic Vistas: Post Office Murals and Public Art in the New Deal (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984)

Patton, Sharon F., African-American Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) 

Related Links

1. Local History and Slavery
   • Pettaquamscutt Historical Society: http://www.freewebs.com/pettaquamscutt/exhibits.htm
   • The Rhode Island Labor History Society: 
     http://www.rilhs.org
   • Brown University's University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice:
     http://www.brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice
   • Newport, RI: slave burials:
     http://www.colonialcemetery.com
2. Post Office Murals
   • For a complete list of post office murals in the New Deal era:
     http://www.wpamurals.com
   • General:
     http://www.parmaconservation.com/newdealpostoffic.html
     http://communitydisc.westside66.org/html/colette/muralsSIG/default.html
   • Arkansas:
     http://www.uca.edu/cfac/art/murals/homepage2.htm
   • St. Joseph Missouri:
     http://communitydisc.westside66.org/html/colette/muralsSIG/StJoe.html
3. About the 1930s
   • New Deal America:
     http://www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu/collections/c8/main.html
   • America in the 1930s:
     http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html