Further Reading

Bibliography

• Acosta, T. P. (2010, June 12). "Black cowboys". The Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association.
  External URL: https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/arb01
• Aulds, T. J. (2010, December 1). "TC area settled by black cowboys on historic list". The Galveston County Daily News.
  Moore Library Vertical File: Black Community - Settlement
• "The Bell, Hobgood, and Britton family reunion" (1990). Local History Archives, Moore Memorial Public Library.
  Moore Library Call Number: RG 920 BELL
• "The Bell, Hobgood, and Britton family reunion" (1996). Local History Archives, Moore Memorial Public Library.
  Moore Library Call Number: RG 920 BELL
• Bell-Gary, V. (2011, June 26). "The Settlement holding celebration". The Galveston County Daily News.
  Moore Library Vertical File: Black Community - Settlement
• Gallaway, A. (2006). The settlement community. Galveston, Texas: Galveston Historical Commission.
  Moore Library Call Number: R 976.4139 GALLAWAY
• Gallaway, A. (2002). Social and natural history, the Butler Museum and Heritage Park. 2002 Annual Report.
  Environment Institute of Houston, University of Houston - Clear Lake.
• Gonzalez. C. S. (2011, October 23). "Supporters try to raise profile of The Settlement". The Galveston County Daily News.
  Moore Library Vertical File: Black Community - Settlement
• Gonzalez, C. S. (2011, December 2). "$20,000 funding set aside for Bell House exterior". The Galveston County Daily News.
  Moore Library Vertical File: Black Community - Settlement
• Graham, C. (2015). The Settlement (Galveston County, Texas) (1867-1953).
• "Greater Bell Zion Missionary Baptist Church" (2013). Texas Historical Commission.
• Hall, A. (2011, August 15). "Slave labor in the defense of Galveston". Dead Confederates: a Civil War blog.
  External URL: https://deadconfederates.com/2011/08/15/slave-labor-in-the-defense-of-galveston/
• Hauch, M. M. (2015). Pioneer families of the 1867 settlement, Texas City, Texas. La Marque, Texas: African American Historic Preservation Committee, Inc.
  Moore Library Call Number: R 976.4139 HAUCH
• "Katie Bell v. the State". (1894). Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
  External URL: https://casetext.com/case/bell-v-state-26
• Kappes, H. (2009, September 20). "Historic district's bid for national list OK'd". The Galveston County Daily News.
  Moore Library Vertical File: Black Community - Settlement
• Legal map. (2012). LovingDay.
  External URL: http://www.lovingday.org/legal-map
• Montgomery, W. E. (2010, June 9). "African-American churches". The Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association.
  External URL: https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pkatz
• Quarles, B. (1953). The negro in the civil war (First ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
• "Remembering Texas City's black cowboys". (n.d.). History of La Marque Texas "the Settlement". African American History Preservation.
• Robinson, C. F. (2004). "Legislated love in the Lone Star State: Texas and miscegenation". Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
• Sitton, T. (2010, June 12). "Freedmen's settlements". The Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association.
  External URL: https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/uef20
• Sitton, T., & Conrad, J. H. (2005). Freedom colonies: independent black Texans in the time of Jim Crow (First ed.). Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.
  Moore Library Call Number: 333.335 SITTON
• "Stewart v. profit et al. writ of error denied by Supreme Court". (1912). Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Galveston.
  External URL: https://casetext.com/case/stewart-v-profit
• Swift, W. (2014, January 20). "Bell Zion unveils historical marker during ceremony". The Galveston County Daily News.
  Moore Library Vertical File: Communities - African American
• Williams, A. W. (2016, January 27). "Jones, William Jefferson". The Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association.
  External URL: https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fjo68