Presents short biographies of ninety-five black Americans from colonial to contemporary times, highlighting their personal achievements and their resulting cont

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects

On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered

A collection of speeches and writings by African Americans, with commentary about the time period in which each person lived, information about the speaker/writ

For use in schools and libraries only. The definitive resource for studying the lives of African Americans from Harriet Tubman to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Mic