African American Lives
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Editor: Henry Louis Gates Jr.Editor: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-29
ISBN: 019516024X
Number of pages: 1056
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: MUST HAVE for people with serious home libraries
Summary: 5 Stars
Although the internet gives limitless access to all kinds of knowledge and data bases, it's still possible to imagine not having that access. I love books, and I want my books to read when the internet does not function. This is a volume, well researched and well presented. I would like to be able to access this knowledge, if the internet somehow didn't exist into pepetuity, or when the electricity goes out!
African American Lives is a "must have" for people who care about the history of African descended people, and especially if they also maintain personal libraries.
Summary of African American Lives
African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these stories of the renowned and the near forgotten give us a new view of American history. Our past is revealed from personal perspectives that in turn inspire, move, entertain, and even infuriate the reader. Subjects include slaves and abolitionists, writers, politicians, and business people, musicians and dancers, artists and athletes, victims of injustice and the lawyers, journalists, and civil rights leaders who gave them a voice. Their experiences and accomplishments combine to expose the complexity of race as an overriding issue in America's past and present.African American Lives features frequent cross-references among related entries, over 300 illustrations, and a general index, supplemented by indexes organized by chronology, occupation or area of renown, and winners of particular honors such as the Spingarn Medal, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize.
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