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Getting Started Guide: African-American Studies: Biographical Resources

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Biographical Information African-Americans - A selection of books

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African-American Inventors by Patricia C. McKissack; Fredrick L. McKissack
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9781562944681
African American Lives by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor)
Call Number: E185.96 .A446 2004
ISBN: 019516024X
African Americans in Science: An Encyclopedia of People and Progress by Charles W. Carey
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Call Number: Online - GVRL
ISBN: 9781851099986
Publication Date: 2008-10-11
African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention by Ray Spangenburg; Kit Moser; Steven Otfinoski
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 0816083312
Black American Women Fiction Writers by Harold Bloom (Introduction by)
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780791022085
Publication Date: 1995-11-01
Black American Women Poets and Dramatists by Harold Bloom (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780791022092
Black Conductors by D. Antoinette Handy
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780585040370
Black Enterprise Titans of the B. E. 100s by Derek T. Dingle
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780471318538
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews (Editor); Frances Smith Foster (Editor); Trudier Harris (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Oxford Reference
ISBN: 9780195138832
Presents more than 400 biographies of authors, critics, literary characters, and historical figures, and 150 plot summaries of major works.
Contemporary Black American Fiction Writers by Harold Bloom (Introduction by)
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780791022122
Great Lives from History: African Americans by Carl L. Bankston, III
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Call Number: Online - GVRL
ISBN: 9781587657474
Notable Black American Women
Call Number: E185.96 .N68

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