African American lives /
edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- xxvi, 1025 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
In front. al nome dei curatori è aggiunto: W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American research, Harvard University, in association with the American Council of learned societies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A definitive biographical resource provides up-to-date, authoritative portraits of some six hundred noteworthy African Americans representing a wide variety of fields of endeavor, including slaves and abolitionists, writers, politicians, artists, business leaders, musicians, performers, athletes, jo