The African American Almanac - Hardcover

9780787617509: The African American Almanac

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ISBN 10: 0787617504 ISBN 13: 9780787617509

Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning, 1999

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Edited by Carney Smith (African American Breakthroughs: 500 Years of Black Firsts) and Palmisano (Notable Hispanic American Women), this weighty resource offers a wealth of information related to the African American experience. The 29 subject areas cover civil rights, black nationalism, population, religion, literature, music, science and technology, and sports, among others. Highlights include the 84-page chronology, dating back to 1492; African American firsts from 1619 to 1999; Africans in America from 1600 to 1900; and excerpts from more than 50 significant historical documents, including the Dred Scott decision, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Plessy v. Ferguson court ruling, and the Black Panther Manifesto. A typical subject chapter includes a brief introduction followed by interesting sketches of significant individuals, events, places, or organizations. The text is liberally illustrated with good-quality photographs, charts, and tables, while the appendix features almanac-type entries about recipients of selected awards (like Colin Powell's 1994 Congressional Gold Medal), federal judges, and Olympic medalists. Despite an emphasis on historical events and persons, some of the recent material is quite topical--for instance, information about tennis players Venus and Serena Williams and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. Unfortunately, the book contains some annoying typographical errors and, apart from citing the source for excerpted statistics and attributing most illustrations, is unreferenced. For smaller collections without major African American works, such as Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (LJ 11/15/99).
-Elizabeth Connor, Medical Univ. of South Carolina Lib., Charleston
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