African American Lives

by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019516024X
• ISBN13: 9780195160246
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1025 Pages
• Weight: 6.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 8.3" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12