African American Lives

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African American Lives is written by Henry Louis Gates and published by OUP USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 019516024X (ISBN 10) and 9780195160246 (ISBN 13).

"The first book of its kind since 1982's Dictionary of American Negro Biography, African American Lives leads us into a new era of African American biographical scholarship. In collaboration with Oxford University Press and the American Council of Learned Societies, and with contributions from over four hundred scholars and experts in many fields, the editors and their staff at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University have collected in this single volume the lives of many of the most important and most interesting names in African American history."--BOOK JACKET.