Sonny Liston: The Champ Nobody Wanted by 
Negro Firsts in Sports by 
Black Humor by 
Marriage Across the Color Line by 
What Color Are You? by 
The Day They Marched by 
Special Moments in African-American History, 1955-1996 by 
The Kennedy Years and the Negro by 
The Legend of Africania by 
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968 by Ebony Success Library by 
The Negro Handbook by 
White Problem in America by Ebony and American Business: A thirty-five year history, 1945-1980 by 
The Ebony Handbook by 
Ebony Pictorial History of Black America by Black Britannia by 
Negro Politician by White on Black: The views of twenty-two white Americans on the Negro by 
Ebony Cookbook by 
My Bondage and My Freedom by 
Black Society by 
To Gwen with Love by Soul of Christmas by 
Black Man in Red Russia by 
Li'l Tuffy and His Friends by 
Li'l Tuffy and His ABC's by 
Profiles of Black Mayors in America by 
I Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey by 
Before the Mayflower by 
Black Power U. S. A. by 
Confrontation: Black and White by 
Forced into Glory by 
Pioneers in Protest by 
The Challenge of Blackness by 
The Shaping of Black America by 
Wade in the Water: Great Moments in Black History by The Negro Mood, and Other Essays by 
What Manner of Man by 
Color Me Brown by 
The Ebony Book of Black Achievement by 
Names from Africa by 
Burn, Killer, Burn! by 
Black Defenders of America, Seventeen Seventy-Five to Nineteen Seventeen-Three by Bill Cosby by 
Du Bois by 
Black and White by 
Underground Railroad by Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro by Why I believe there is a God : sixteen essays by Negro clergymen by 
Nitty Gritty by 
Against a Sharp White Background by 
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America by 
A House for the Struggle by 
Our Kind of Historian by 
Succeeding Against the Odds by 
Black Is Beautiful by 
Ebony Jr! by 
Ebony by 
Miles of Style by 
Empire: The House That John H. Johnson Built: The Life & Legacy of Pioneering Publishing Magnate by Inspiring Beauty by 
The Black Image Corporation by 
The Book Collecting Practices of Black Magazine Editors by 
Photograph of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Ahad, Badia. "Confessions." Rethinking Therapeutic Culture. Edited by Timothy Aubry, and Trysh Davis (eds). University of Chicago Press, 2015. Chicago Scholarship Online, 2016.
Barrett, Nicola Essie. “Fashion Fair in a Fenty World: Intersectionality, White Privilege, and the Importance of Black-Owned Brands in the Cosmetic Industry Through Critical Ethnography.” M.A., Temple University, 2022.
Boone, Dorothy Deloris. “A Historical Review and a Bibliography of Selected Negro Magazines, 1910-1969.” Educat.D., University of Michigan, 1970.
Brown, Korey Bowers. “Souled out: ‘Ebony’ Magazine in an Age of Black Power, 1965–1975.” Ph.D., Howard University, 2010.
Bryant, Malika S. “Johnson Publishing Company’s Tan Confessions and Ebony: Reader Response through the Lens of Social Comparison Theory.” Ohio University, 2021.
Christian, Margena A. “John H. Johnson: A Historical Study on the Re-Education of African Americans in Adult Education through the Selfethnic Liberatory Nature of Magazines.” Ed.D., National-Louis University, 2013.
De Freece-Wilson, Eileen. “Era Bell Thompson: Chicago Renaissance Writer.” Rutgers University - Graduate School - New Brunswick, 2010.
Dennis, Carolyn. “The Growth and Development of the Johnson Publishing Company.” Michigan State University (School of Journalism), 1971.
Fenderson, Jonathan Bryan. “‘Journey toward a Black Aesthetic’: Hoyt Fuller, the Black Arts Movement & the Black Intellectual Community.” University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011.
Henderson, Laretta. “Ebony Jr.!: A Sociohistorical and Cultural Analysis.” University of Iowa, 2003.
Jones, Julius Langston. “Cultures of Aspiration: African American Chicago, 1929 to 1959.” The University of Chicago, 2022.
Manuel, Meaghan J. “Specters in the Black Metropolis: Leslie Hewitt, David Hartt, and the Johnson Publishing Company.” University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art), 2015.
Saddler, Valerie Stephanie. “A Content Analysis of Ebony’s and Life’s 1955-1965 Reporting on Black Civil Rights Movement Issues.” Ph.D., Ohio University, 2003.
Saunders, Doris E. "The Black magazine since World War II and its background." Boston University, 1977.
West, James. “Ebony Magazine, Lerone Bennett, Jr., and the Making and Selling of Modern Black History, 1958-1987.” University of Manchester, 2016.
Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Made possible by the Ford Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Smithsonian Institution.