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

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African Americans--Biography.
Afroamericanos--Biografías

R E 185.96 / A258 2004

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