African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence (Paperback)

African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence By Lean'tin Bracks, Jessie Carney Smith (Foreword by) Cover Image

African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence (Paperback)

Email or call for price

Out of Print
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.
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
Product Details ISBN: 9781578593231
ISBN-10: 1578593239
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Publication Date: November 4th, 2011
Pages: 560
Language: English

"An invaluable addition to your family's collection. Illustrious."  Kitsap County Chronicle on Africa America: Portrait of a People

"Thoughtfully addresses the challenges and triumphs of Black Americans during the past 400 years."  Christian Science Monitor

"*Starred Review* This is an affordable, concise, and overall first-rate resource for high-school, public, and academic libraries." —Booklist (February 1, 2012)

"Celebrating centuries of achievements, the African American [Almanac] provides insights on the influence, inspiration, and impact of African Americans on U.S. society and culture." —Denver Urban Spectrum (December 1, 2011)

"[An] excellent overview of African American contributions to the United States." —Library Journal (February 2012)

"A one of a kind fantastic book of reference. . . . It renders a profound look at history by way of the African American experience." —Birmingham Times (December 2011)