Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia /

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Imprint:Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1993.
Description:1 online resource (2 volumes (xxvi, 1530 pages)) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Black women writers series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12473269
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Other authors / contributors:Hine, Darlene Clark.
Brown, Elsa Barkley.
Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.
ISBN:0926019619
9780926019614
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 1333-1344) and index.
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Summary:This is a comprehensive guide to the lives of 641 individual black women, most of whom are significant on a national level. There are also entries to more than 150 general topics and organizations involving Black women. Listed alphabetically, the signed entries have bibliographies and many have photographs. The length of the articles vary from one or two columns to multiple pages, especially for the topical entries. Entries are balanced and easily comprehensible. The appendices include a chronology, a classified bibliography, including a directory of research centers, and the biographies classified by occupations. There is an extensive index. Recommended as a first purchase among the new biographical sources about Black women for high school libraries.
Other form:Print version: Black women in America. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1993