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1 online resource (5 volumes) |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Volume 1. Aaliyah ; Hank Aaron ; Robert S. Abbott ; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ; Ralph David Abernathy ; Faye Adams ; Cannonball Adderley ; Alvin Ailey ; George Edward Alcorn ; Ira Frederick Aldridge ; Elizabeth Alexander ; Muhammad Ali ; Noble Drew Ali ; Damon Allen ; Debbie Allen ; Marcus Allen ; Richard Allen ; Allen Allensworth ; Charles Alston ; Gene Ammons ; Wally Amos ; Eddie "Rochester" Anderson ; Marian Anderson ; Maya Angelou ; Henry Armstrong ; Lillian Hardin Armstrong ; Louis Armstrong ; Molefi Kete Asante ; Arthur Ashe ; Evelyn Ashford ; Crispus Attucks ; Babyface ; Pearl Bailey ; Dusty Baker ; Ella Baker ; Houston A. Baker, Jr. ; Josephine Baker ; James Baldwin ; James Presley Ball ; Toni Cade Bambara ; Ernie Banks ; Tyra Banks ; Benjamin Banneker ; Edward Mitchell Bannister ; Amiri Baraka ; Charles Barkley ; Steven Barnes ; Gerald William Barrax ; Marion Barry ; Richmond Barth ; Count Basie ; Jean-Michel Basquiat ; Charlotta Spears Bass ; Angela Bassett ; Daisy Bates ; Alvin Batiste ; Kathleen Battle ; Elgin Baylor ; Bob Beamon ; Andrew Jackson Beard ; Romare Bearden ; Louise Beavers ; Tyson Beckford ; Jim Beckwourth ; Julius Wesley Becton, Jr. ; Harry Belafonte ; Cool Papa Bell ; James Madison Bell ; Chuck Berry ; Halle Berry ; Blind Tom Bethune ; Mary McLeod Bethune ; James Bevel ; Chauncey Billups ; David Harold Blackwell ; Edward Blackwell ; Henry Blair ; Eubie Blake ; Art Blakey ; Bobby Blue Bland ; James Bland ; Jimmy Blanton ; Mary J. Blige ; Vida Blue ; Guion Bluford ; Charles F. Bolden, Jr. ; Jane Matilda Bolin ; Horace Mann Bond ; Julian Bond ; Barry Bonds ; Margaret Allison Bonds ; Marita Bonner ; Arna Bontemps ; Ralph Boston ; Sister Thea Bowman ; Otis Boykin ; Perry Bradford ; David Bradley ; Ed Bradley ; Tom Bradley ; William Stanley Braithwaite ; Carol E. Moseley Braun ; Anthony Braxton ; Toni Braxton ; Cyril V. Briggs ; Andrew Felton Brimmer ; Lou Brock ; Edward W. Brooke ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Big Bill Broonzy ; Charles Brown ; Charlotte Hawkins Brown ; Claude Brown ; Clifford Brown ; Dorothy Lavinia Brown ; Elaine Brown ; H. Rap Brown ; James Brown ; Jim Brown ; Ray Brown ; Ron Brown ; Sterling A. Brown ; Tim Brown ; Tony Brown ; Willie Brown ; Blanche Kelso Bruce ; John E. Bruce ; Antonio Bryant ; Kobe Bryant ; Eugene Jacques Bullard ; Ed Bullins ; Ralph Bunche ; Solomon Burke ; Yvonne Brathwaite Burke ; Harry T. Burleigh ; Roland Burris. |
| Summary |
Features 800 essays covering people from the eighteenth century through the early twenty-first century. The majority of the individuals included in this set have never been covered in this series before. Many individuals are household names, famous for their work in such fields as entertainment, sports, civil rights, politics, and literature. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Biography -- Encyclopedias.
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African Americans -- History -- Encyclopedias.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias. (OCoLC)fst01423798
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Bankston, Carl L. (Carl Leon), 1952-
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| Added Title |
African Americans |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Great lives from history. African Americans. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2011 9781587657474 (DLC) 2011018008 (OCoLC)698333080 |
| ISBN |
9781587657542 (electronic bk.) |
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1587657546 (electronic bk.) |
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