books.google.com - 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...http://books.google.com/books/about/African_American_Lives.html?id=3dXw6gR2GgkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAfrican American Lives