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Harlem Renaissance lives from the African American national biography
By Gates, Henry Louis & Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks
- ISBN
- 978-0-19538-795-7
- Publisher
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2009.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2009
Gr 8-Up A spin-off of the eight-volume "African American National Biography" (Oxford Univ., 2008), this volume reprints profiles of 300 prominent figures of the era. Following a new overview essay, the signed articles begin with an entry on newspaper publisher Robert Sangstache Abbott of the "Defender" fame, conclude with author Richard Wright, and in between mix biographies of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and other widel...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
