Table of Contents

List of Articles ; Preface to the Second Edition ; Preface to the First Edition ; Introduction ; Editorial Note ; AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY ; Directory of Contributors ; African American Prizewinners ; Index by Birthplace ; Realm of Renown

About the Author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and Afro-American Studies, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Harvard University, and Editor of The Harvard Guide to African American History.