Description
This 2-volume set provides a
supplement to the 2nd Edition of the African American National
Biography. Read below for more information on the groundbreaking
publication.
The African American National Biography presents
history through a mosaic of the lives of thousands of individuals,
illuminating the abiding influence of persons of African descent on the
life of this nation from the arrival of Esteban in Spanish Florida in
1529 through to notable black citizens of the present day.
The
original eight-volume set has now been expanded to twelve handsome
volumes in its second edition, bringing the total number of lives
profiled to nearly 5,000. The AANB continues to grow along with the
field of African American biographical research, providing for
continuous updates to the online edition, each entry written and signed
by distinguished scholars. This is a remarkable achievement, a tenfold
increase over the number of biographies contained in 2004's
award-winning and substantial African American Lives, and featuring such
notable new entries as Cory Booker, C. Vivian Stringer, and Michelle
Obama.
In addition to Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.
E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr., the AANB includes a wide range
of African Americans from all time periods and all walks of life. Lives
profiled include those already recognized as giants of black history,
figures whose stories have never been told and that readers will be
discovering for the first time, and living people who are shaping the
era in which we now live. The names within are both famous and
nearly-forgotten. In the words of AANB editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
"These stories, long buried in the dusty archives of history, will never
be lost again. And that is what scholarship in the field of African
American Studies should be all about."