100 Greatest African Americans
Subtitle: A Biographical Encyclopedia
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781573929639
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Black studies; Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who); General encyclopaedias; Population & demography; Social history; History; Blacks In The U.S.; Social Science; Reference; Sociology; USA; People of Color; General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African Americans; Biography; Encyclopedias
First sentence: When Carter G. Woodson and Charles Wesley wrote their famous book The Negro in Our History in the 1940s, it was easy to think of the African's presence in the United States as merely an insertion into the European story in America.