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Biographical Information

African American National Biography. Call Number: REF E 185.96 .A4466 2008 (8 vols.)
Biographies of thousands of African Americans throughout the nation's history.  An excellent and authoritative scholarly source.

Notable Black American Women. Call Number: REF E 185.96 .N68 1992 (2 vols.)

Who's Who Among African Americans. Call Number: REF E 185.96 .W522 latest edition

Data/Statistics

Facts on the African American Population.

Historical Statistics of Black America. Call Number: REF E 185 .H543 1995 (2 vols.)

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. Call Number: REF PS 153 .N5 E49 2007 (2 vols)

Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions. Call Number: REF BL 2462.5 .E53 2001

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Call Number: REF E 185 .E54 2001 (6 vols.)

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century.
Article length entry discussing African Americans in the U.S. during the 19th century, and includes the following subentries:  Free Blacks Before the Civil War, Blacks in the West, Blacks in the Military, and African American Religions.

Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement. Call Number: REF E 185.61 .L84 1997

Routledge History of African American History. Call Number: REF E 185.E125 2000
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Primary Sources

A Love No Less: More Than Two Centuries of African American Love Letters. Call Number: General PS 673 .L7 L68 2003

African American Frontiers: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories. Call Number: General E 444 .G68 2000

On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front. Call Number: General E 513.5 54th G66 1991

Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches

Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves. Call Number: General E 464 .W29 2008

Specialized Sources

Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema. Call Number: REF PN 1995.9 .N4 B433 2007

Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of The Artists Who Revolutionized Rhythm. Call Number: REF ML 3479 .G85 2008 (2 vols.)