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Selected Reference Books in Butler Library:
This is a one-volume comprehensive and scholarly source on African history and culture from ancient times to present on both sides of the Atlantic. It is a source of biographical information on Africans and African Americans. Ref DT14 .A37435 1999 Black Saga: The African American Experience A comprehensive reference book that documents the African American Experience in the United States from colonial times to the present in brief entries arranged in chronological order. Ref E185 .C519 1995 Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events A record of achievement by African Americans in the arts, business, education, government, journalism, science, and other fields. Ref E185 .B574 2003 Contemporary Black Biography A multi-volume set that provides biographical profiles of the important and influential persons of African heritage who form the international black community. It covers persons of various nationalities in a wide variety of fields from architecture to theater. Ref DT18 .C66 Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara This four-volume set is intended for the use of students, journalists, business people, policy makers and those who seek up-to-date information about the peoples and cultures of Africa. Ref DT351 .E53 1997 Encyclopedia of African-American Education A reference tool on significant issues, policies, historical events, laws, theories, organizations, institutions, and people incident to the education of African Americans in the United States. Ref LC2717 .E53 1996 Encyclopedia of African Peoples This book divides Africa into five major regions, and looks at major geographical, historical, and cultural aspects, devoting a large section on anthropological history of thousands of ethnic groups. Each is succinctly analyzed in reference to its history, language, ways of life, social structure, culture and religion, and recent events. Ref DT15 .E53 2000 Encyclopedia of Black Studies Contains an analysis of economic, political, sociological, historical, literary, and philosophical issues, providing an authoritative, state-of-the-art account of this discipline. Ref E185 .E554 2005 Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History Explores the twentieth-century history of the entire continent of Africa and includes suggestions for further reading. Ref DT29 .E53 2003 Historical Statistics of Black America A two-volume chronology of the condition, status, and experiences of African Americans in tables and text reports covering the 18th century through 1975. Ref E185 .H543 1995 The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference A one-volume reference to important aspects of black life and culture, beginning with a chronology of African American history. It surveys the story of Africans in the Americas, including the Caribbean, from slavery through contemporary political and civil rights movements. Ref E185 .N49 1999 Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography of Sources This guide lists and annotates the most important sources for the study of Africa. Intended for students, teachers, librarians, and researchers who are delving into unknown territory, it covers mostly English titles dealing with the entire African continent. Ref DT3 K2 1999 Slavery in America: From Colonial Times to the Civil War Sets forth eyewitness accounts of the birth, tragic life, and death of slavery in North America during the time of that "peculiar institution," using clippings from contemporary newspapers, documents, diaries, letters, speeches, and memoirs. Ref E441 .S36 2000 Who's Who Among African Americans Contains biographical entries to more than 20,000 men and women who reflect a diversity of achievement in all fields of endeavor. Ref E185.96 .W52 2002
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