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Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Contains information on where to find biographies.

African American Newspapers,1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
History Reference Source This link opens in a new window
Includes biographical sources such as Hutchinson's Biography Database and Cambridge Dictionary of Biography.

Britannica Online

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Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction, 1840-1877 This link opens in a new window
Newspaper accounts from this period.

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The Bridge: the life and rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks E 908 .R46 2011
ISBN: 9780375702303
Publication Date: 2011-01-11

Search SOUTHcat, ebrary, Springer ebooks, ACLS Humanities ebooks, and EBSCO eBook Collection for more books on African American biography and history. These are books the Marx Library owns that could be useful.

Malcolm X: a life of reinvention by Manning Marable; G. Valmont Thomas (Read by)
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks BP 223 .Z8 L57636 2011
ISBN: 9780670022205
Publication Date: 2011-04-04
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present by Paul Finkelman (Editor)
Call Number: Univ. Library Reference E 185 .E5453 2009
ISBN: 9780195167795
Publication Date: 2009-02-02
This is a five volume set.
A Fatherless Child by Tara T. Green
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks HQ 756.8 .G74 2009
ISBN: 0826218210
Publication Date: 2009-03-09
African American National Biography by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor)
Call Number: Univ. Library Reference E 185.96 .A4466 2008
ISBN: 9780195160192
Publication Date: 2008-02-18
This is an eight volume set.
Life upon These Shores: looking at African American history, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks E 185 .G27 2011
ISBN: 9780307593429
Publication Date: 2011-11-22
Black Profiles in Courage by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks E 185.96 .A18 1996
ISBN: 9780688130978
Publication Date: 1996-10-01
African Americans Confront Lynching : strategies of resistance from the Civil War to the civil rights era by Christopher Waldrep
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks HV 6457 .W347 2009
ISBN: 9780742552722
Publication Date: 2008-12-16
Lynching and Spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks HV 6457 .W66 2009
ISBN: 9780807832547
Publication Date: 2009-05-01

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