Focuses on the events and the people who have shaped the history of African Americans from the year 1619 to the present.

"...a history written for a new generation of African Americans, stretching from life in Africa before slavery to today's hip-hop culture."

An interdisciplinary look at the Harlem Renaissance, it includes essays on the principal participants, those who defined the political, intellectual and cultural milieu in which the Renaissance existed; on important events and places

This guide book profiles people, places, and events that have shaped the history of the black struggle for freedom.

"...offers a compendium of information and interpretation on over 500 years of black experience in America."

"...provides authoritative portraits of some six hundred noteworthy African Americans representing a wide variety of fields of endeavor."

Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important African American writers.

African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass.

Callie House (1861-1928), ex-slave, widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five who, seventy years before the civil rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations.

"...three accounts, by Louisa Picquet, Mattie J. Jackson, and Sylvia Dubois, of their lives as slaves which were given orally and written down in 1861, 1866, and 1883 respectively."

"...provides a complete highlighted overview of Du Bois' life, the events and personalities that influenced him, his intellectual contributions, and his activism."