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Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History by Jack Salzman (Editor); David L. Smith (Editor); Cornel West (Editor)
Call Number: 973.0496073003 Sa39 | 4th Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 1995

An authoritative, five volume work dealing with all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day. With over 2,300 entries, 2,500 pages, and more than 1,000 photographs, maps, and charts.
The Complete Encyclopedia of African American History by Jessie Carney Smith; Lean'tin Bracks; Linda T. Wynn
Call Number: Ebook collection

Publication Date: 2015

Comprehensive resource explores the past, the progress, and the present of African Americans in four volumes, each building, complementing, and expanding on the previous volume.
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History by Colin A. Palmer
Call Number: Ebook collection

Publication Date: 2005
African American National Biography by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor)
Call Number: 920.009296 Af83 | 4th Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 2008

Presents history through a mosaic of the lives of thousands of individuals, illuminating the abiding influence of persons of African descent on the life of this nation from the arrival of Esteban in Spanish Florida in 1529 through to notable black citizens of the present day.
Black Women in America by Darlene Clark Hine (Editor); Elsa B. Brown (Editor); Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (Editor)
Call Number: 920.72 H58 | 4th Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 1993
Milestone Documents in African American History by Paul Finkelman
Call Number: Ebook collection

Publication Date: 2010