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Chronicles of African American History.
Chronicles the history of the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora, and profiles influential Black figures. Includes color photographs, infographics, and maps.
Explores the history of African Americans in the United States, from the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the election of the first black president.
Collects over thirty visual timelines highlighting Black persons, movements, and events from prehistory to today. Features African history, slavery, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, African Americans in the Civil War, Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, the civil rights movement, Muhammad Ali, Oprah Winfrey, and Barack Obama among others. Includes biographical sketches and a glossary.
Explores the 400-year history of African Americans in the land that would become the United States, from the "twenty and odd Negroes"--as is written in the lists--dropped off the "White Lion" in Virginia in 1619, up to the present. Collects ninety essays from ninety different Black writers writing on different historical periods, events, Black historical figures, short stories, and personal vignettes and polemics pieces, arranged in what the editors call a "community history."
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