Rochester Roots/Routes series, Part 1: 1600-1800s Original peoples in Roc (by Adolph Dupree)
African American Rochester history, including all sorts of notable people & just gems throughout.
July 1984
Source: about… time magazine
Rochester Roots/Routes series, Part 2: 1900-1929 Businesses (by Adolph Dupree)
African American Rochester history, including all sorts of notable people & just gems throughout.
August 1984
Source: about… time magazine
Rochester Roots/Routes series, Part 3: 1930-1939 Youth (by Adolph Dupree)
African American Rochester history, including all sorts of notable people & just gems throughout.
September 1984
Source: about… time magazine
Rochester Roots/Routes series, Part 4: 1940-1949 3rd Ward/Caribbean migration (See pg. 14) (by Adolph Dupree)
African American Rochester history, including all sorts of notable people & just gems throughout.
October 1984
Source: about… time magazine
Rochester Roots/Routes series, Part 5: 1950-1965 (by Adolph Dupree)
African American Rochester history, including all sorts of notable people & just gems throughout.
November 1984
Source: about… time magazine
Rochester Roots/Routes series, Part 6: 1964-1980ish Post-uprising, FIGHT, politics (by Adolph Dupree)
African American Rochester history, including all sorts of notable people & just gems throughout.
December 1984
Source: about… time magazine
Rochester Roots/Routes series: Overview of Resource from Spirit of the Pythodd online exhibit (by Adolph Dupree)
African American Rochester history, including all sorts of notable people & just gems throughout.
July-December 1984
Source: about… time magazine
African American Historical Corridor: A study on historical elements, existing conditions & conceptual design through the lens of economic & neighborhood development (by with Clark Patterson Lee)
Assesses and imagines how to highlight Rochester’s Black history along Clarissa St., Plymouth-Exchange, Joseph Ave., and in Caledonia and Mumford NY
April 29, 2014
Source: Landmark Society of Western New York
Rochester’s Rich History: Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the American Canadian Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery (by dann J. Broyld)
Author presents history of Rochester’s role as a borderland city as Black people sought freedom from enslavement
June 20, 2022
Source: Rochester Public Library’s Local History & Genealogy Division presents
Black Capitalism Promised a Better City for Everyone. What Happened? (by Michael Corkery)
Covers Black-owned company, Eltrex, started by FIGHT with activist, community focus. Under Matt Augustine, he made lots of $$ & Kodak/Xerox, its main customers, sunk. Never met its mission to life Black cmty.
Sept. 13, 2021
Source: New York Times
Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, NY (1940-1970) (by Laura Warren Hill)
FIGHT= organizing
2021
Source: Cornell University Press
Saul Alinsky Went to War (about his work with FIGHT) (by Peter Pearson (director) with Donald Brittain)
Features Min. Franklin Florence & the fight with Kodak
1968
Source: National Film Board of Canada
Resistance, Rebellion and Renewal in Rochester: Narratives of Progress and Poverty (by Museum Studies Program)
Exhibition guide with summaries of three intersecting eras in Rochester history.
2015
Source: Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Hard Facts: Race and Ethnicity in the Nine-County Greater Rochester Area (by ACT Rochester)
Data on race & poverty in Rochester NY
August 2020
Source: Rochester Area Community Foundation
The Archive of Black History and Culture: Collecting and Preserving Rochester’s Black History (by Antoine Ajani McDonald)
Rochester Public Library undertakes its Black Heritage
February 27, 2025
Source: Local History Rocs! Office of Rochester & Monroe County History
