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African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence Paperback - 2011

by Lean'tin Bracks; Foreword by Jessie Carney Smith

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The most complete and affordable single-volume reference of African American culture available today, this almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating and demystifying the moving, difficult, and often lost history of black life in America. Celebrating centuries of achievements, the African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence provides insights on the influence, inspiration, and impact of African Americans on U.S. society and culture. A legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph is presented through a fascinating mix of biographies--including 750 influential figures--little-known or misunderstood historical facts, enlightening essays on significant legislation and movements, and 445 rare photographs and illustrations. Covering politics, education, religion, business, science, medicine, the military, sports, literature, music, dance, theater, art, film, and television, chapters address the important events and social and cultural changes that affected African Americans over the centuries, followed by biographical profiles of hundreds of key figures, including Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker, Amiri Baraka, Daisy Bates, George Washington Carver, Ray Charles, Bessie Coleman, Gary Davis, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michael Eric Dyson, Duke Ellington, Medgar Evers, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Eric H. Holder Jr., Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, LeBron James, Mae C. Jemison, Martin Luther King Jr., Queen Latifah, Jacob Lawrence, Kevin Liles, Thurgood Marshall, Walter Mosley, Elijah Muhammad, Barack Obama, Gordon Parks, Rosa Parks, Richard Pryor, Condoleezza Rice, Smokey Robinson, Wilma Rudolph, Betty Shabazz, Tavis Smiley, Clarence Thomas, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Ross Tubman, C. Delores Tucker, Usher, Denmark Vesey, Alice Walker, Booker T. Washington, Kanye West, Reggie White, Serena Williams, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm X. Explore a wealth of milestones, inspiration, challenges met, and lasting respect! The African American Almanac's helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness.

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  • Title African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence
  • Author Lean'tin Bracks; Foreword by Jessie Carney Smith
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Visible Ink Press
  • Date 2011-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781578593231 / 1578593239
  • Weight 2.03 lbs (0.92 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.23 x 7.13 x 1.34 in (23.44 x 18.11 x 3.40 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, African Americans - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011038636
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.049

About the author

Lean'tin L. Bracks is Chair of the Department of Arts and Languages at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Bracks has had her work included in publications such as Freedom Facts and Firsts, The Black Scholar, African American National Biography, and Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture. Awards include Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities, Who's Who Among American Teachers, and an honorary degree from her undergraduate institution, Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio. She completed her graduate work at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln
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