Resources

Below are links to recent articles, events and archival collections about Black Solidarity Day, its founders and its inspiration. Please email blackcollections@nyu.edu if you would like to suggest a resource we may have missed.

Resources about Dr. Carlos Russell

• Statements from Carlos Russell, creator of Black Solidarity Day: https://voicesamerica.library.vanderbilt.edu/VfOA/voices_CRussell.php
• Center for Brooklyn History, Oral History with Dr. Carlos Russell, interviewed by Morton Marks, 1988
• Dr. Carlos Russell’s obituary in the Brooklyn Reader

Resources about Day of Absence and Douglas Turner Ward

• Negro Ensemble Company, theater company co-founded by Douglas Turner Ward
• Douglas Turner Ward, Interview, HistoryMakers

Historical Newspaper Articles

• “Black Solidarity Day,” written by Daphne Sheppard, New York Amsterdam News, Oct 11, 1969
• “‘Black Solidarity Day’: A Day Of Absence?: Solidarity Day Gains Support,” no byline, New York Amsterdam News, Nov 1, 1969
• “A ‘Black Solidarity Day’ Is Backed by Group Here,” written by Thomas A. Johnson, New York Times, Oct 8, 1969
• “‘Black Solidarity Day’: A Success Or Bust?: Solidarity Day And How It Was,” no byline, New York Amsterdam News, Nov 8, 1969
• “NYU and CUS Plan Joint Program,” no byline, New York Amsterdam News, Nov 5, 1977

Recent Articles

• “Black Solidarity Day Turns 50” New York Public Library - December 13, 2019
• New York Amsterdam News, “Black Solidarity Day–Action Toward 2020”: - November 7, 2019
• SUNY New Paltz News, “Black Solidarity 2020 is Monday, Nov. 2”

Websites and Digitally Accessible Materials

• SUNY New Paltz Black Solidarity Day Website
• Pinback Button for Black Solidarity Day, from the collections of the National Museum of African American History
• Black Solidarity Day 1972, from the WGBH Open Vault/Massachusetts Collections Online
• Black Solidarity Day, undated, photographs from University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Black Solidarity Day March on the UN, 1979, poster from University of Michigan Libraries