The Harvard Guide to African-American History

The Harvard Guide to African-American History
Author: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 968
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674002760

Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.

Generations Past

Generations Past
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1988
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

This book "is a selected list of books in the collections of the Library of Congress compiled primarily for researchers of Afro-American lineages. Included in this bibliography are guidebooks, bibliographies, genealogies, collective biographies, United States local histories, directories, and other works pertaining specifically to Afro-Americans. Emphasis is on books that contain information about lesser-known individuals of the nineteenth century and earlier, although Afro-American business and city directories published through 1959 are listed"--Introd.

Dictionary of Afro-American Performers

Dictionary of Afro-American Performers
Author: Patricia Turner
Publisher: Garland Publishing
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1990
Genre: Music
ISBN:

A discography with short biographical essays of Afro-American classical composers, vocalists, vocal groups, instrumentalists, and record companies. Also covers operas and musicals, and the spoken word. Archival collections and other resource material held by institutions in the US are noted when known. Good bibliographies. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).