Title Highlight: Black Women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia

Black Women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia

2 volumes: Photos, Contents listed by Topic (v. I), Abbreviations (v.I)
Black women in the United States: A Chronology (v.II)
Bibliography of Basic Resources (v. II)
Classified List of Biographical Entries (v. II)
Index (v. II)

This two volume set primarily consists of short biographies of notable African American women, some famous (Harriet Tubman, Zora Neale Hurston) and some infamous (Tituba, cause of the Salem witch trials and Margaret Garner whose story inspired the book Beloved) . However, it also contains entries on other topics such as the Abolition Movement, Domestic Workers, the Harlem Renaissance, the National Association of Colored Women, Black women’s colleges, African American sororities and other topics. A complete listing of the non-biographical topics is found at the beginning of the first volume under “Contents listed by Topic”. There are short bibliographies of further resources at the end of each entry and the bibliography of basic resources at the end of volume II gives an annotated listing of further research resources as well as a listing of the places where the papers of some famous women can be found. This set is a good place to begin research and to find further sources of information on notable African American women and related topics.