Research Guides @ Fordham: African &amp; African American Studies: Biography

Biography

Who's Who Among African Americans by Gale
Call Number: (RH) Ref E185.96 .W5 ED, Multi-Volume Set
New York: Gale Research, 1996 - .

Brief profiles of both living and deceased African Americans.
African American National Biography by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Ref E185.96 A496, 8 vols.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
African American War Heroes by James B. Martin (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Stacks U52 .A42 2014
Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2014]
African-American Writers : A Dictionary by Shari Dorantes Hatch (Editor); Michael R. Strickland (Editor); Brenda Pilsner
Call Number: (RH) Reference PS153.N5 A3444 2009
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2000.
Most recent edition (2009) available in print.

Oxford African American Studies Center

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Full text of OUP reference books on African Americans. Includes the entire contents of the Dictionary of African Biography and The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought. Limited to 5 Simultaneous Users.

Notable Biographies

The Historymakers : The Digital Repository for the Black Experience
The HistoryMakers is a national 501©(3) non-profit research and educational institution committed to preserving and making widely accessible the untold personal stories of both well-known and unsung African Americans. Fordham does not subscribe to the databases, but there is some free content avalable via the website.

The African American Biography

African American National Biography by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Ref E185.96 .A496 2008 V.1 - V.8
African American Lives by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Ref E185.96 .A48 2004

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