Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 2Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn This is a comprehensive guide to the lives of 641 individual black women, most of whom are significant on a national level. There are also entries to more than 150 general topics and organizations involving Black women. Listed alphabetically, the signed entries have bibliographies and many have photographs. The length of the articles vary from one or two columns to multiple pages, especially for the topical entries. Entries are balanced and easily comprehensible. The appendices include a chronology, a classified bibliography, including a directory of research centers, and the biographies classified by occupations. There is an extensive index. Recommended as a first purchase among the new biographical sources about Black women for high school libraries. |
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African Methodist Episcopal Preaching | 12 |
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority | 23 |
Volume II | 36 |
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