02811nam 2200577 450 991045626050332120200520144314.01-280-83827-20-19-977101-4(CKB)2450000000001851(EBL)729028(OCoLC)782867134(SSID)ssj0000288357(PQKBManifestationID)12086456(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000288357(PQKBWorkID)10382561(PQKB)10729881(MiAaPQ)EBC729028(Au-PeEL)EBL729028(CaPaEBR)ebr11303980(CaONFJC)MIL83827(EXLCZ)99245000000000185120161201h20042004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrican American lives /edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamOxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,2004.©20041 online resource (4606 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-516024-X Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Introduction""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Directory of Contributors""; ""Subjects in African American Lives""; ""African American Lives""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H-I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P-Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X-Y""; ""Subjects by Category or Area of Renown""; ""African American Prizewinners, Medalists, Members of Congress, and Judges""; ""Index""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 frAfrican AmericansBiographyElectronic books.African Americans920/.009296073Gates Henry LouisJr.,Higginbotham Evelyn Brooks1945-W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American ResearchMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456260503321African American lives1940559UNINA