Selected Bibliography on Fayetteville State University
- Chesnutt, Helen M. Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952
- Fayetteville State Teachers College Catalog. Fayetteville, N.C.: Fayetteville State Teachers College Press, 1940-1941.
- Fayetteville State University 135th Founders Day Program. Fayetteville, N.C.: Fayetteville State University Press, 2002.
- Gibson, Gertha Smith. James Ward Seabrook: An Educational Leader in the Black Community. Chapel Hill: G. S. Gibson, 1987. PhD Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Huddle, Mark Anthony. "To Educate a Race: the Making of the First State Colored Normal School, Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1865-1877." North Carolina Historical Review 74(2); April 1997, 135-160.
- Jones, Mildred P. An Analysis and Evaluation of Library Facilities and Services at Fayetteville State Teachers College. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1955.
- Jones, Mildred P. History of Fayetteville State College. 1st ed. Fayetteville, N.C.: Fayetteville State College Press, 1969.
- Lefler, Hugh T. North Carolina History Told by Contemporaries. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1934.
- Murphy, Ella Louise. Origin and Development of Fayetteville State Teachers College, 1867-1959: a Chapter in the History of the Education of Negroes in North Carolina. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1960. PhD Dissertation, New York University.
- Newbold, N. C. Five North Carolina Negro Educators. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939.
- Noble, M. C. S. A History of the Public Schools of North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1930.
- North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 1876-1878, 1878-1880.
- Oates, John A. The Story of Fayetteville and the Upper Cape Fear. Charlotte, N.C.: Dowd Press, Inc., 1950.
- Render, Sylvia L. Charles W. Chesnutt. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980.
- Whitted, Fred. Fayetteville, North Carolina. Charleston, N.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
