African american leaders in history biographical dictionary

General Editors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Executive Editor: Steven J. Niven

The African American National Biography (AANB) is a joint project of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press.

Edited by Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, this landmark undertaking resulted in an eight-volume print edition containing over 4, individual biographies, indices, and supplementary matter. The AANB, published in February , includes many entries by noted scholars, among them Sojourner Truth by Nell Irvin Painter; W.

E. B. Du Bois by Thomas Holt; Rosa Parks by Darlene Clark Hine; Miles Davis by John Szwed; Muhammad Ali by Gerald Early; and President Barack Obama by Randall Kennedy. In the AANB was selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, was named a Library Journal Best Reference work, and awarded Booklis