Recommended history and biography
Life upon These Shores: looking at African American history, 1513-2008 by Recommended fiction and poetry
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by 
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by 
Their Eyes Were Watching God by American poet and activist
Formerly enslaved person who became a conductor for the Underground Railroad, a spy, a union army nurse, and a Civil War scout
Activist, lawyer, actor, and singer
Formerly enslaved person who became an abolitionist
Jazz musician
Clergyman and civil rights activist
Best known for her act of civil disobedience in 1955 that sparked the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s
Civil rights activist and Supreme Court Justice
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Why search here? This is one of our History Research Center databases, which covers more than 500 years of the African-American experience, African-American History offers a fresh way to explore the full spectrum of African-American history and culture, with tablet/mobile-friendly videos and slideshows, images, biographies of key people, event and topic entries, primary sources, maps and graphs, and timelines.
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Why search here? Use this database to find primary sources and brief overview articles to explore themes in the African American experience from African origins to the present day.
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What's included: This Gale database includes more than 500,000 individuals from throughout history and from around the world.
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