The complete encyclopedia of African American history

[v. 1]. 400 years of achievement / Lean'tin Bracks, editor Africans in America

Civil rights

Politics

Education

Religion

Literature

Business entrepreneurs/media

Performing and visual/applied arts

Music

Science, technology, inventors, and explorers

Sports

Military. [v. 2]. Notable firsts / Jessie Carney Smith. Arts & entertainment

Business

Civil rights and protest

Education

Government : county & state

Government : Federal

Government : international

Government : local

Journalism

Military

Miscellaneous

Organizations

Religion

Science and medicine

Sports

Writers. [v. 3]. Heroes and heroines / authors, Jessie Carney Smith, Nikki Giovanni

Hank Aaron

Robert S. Abbott

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Alvin Ailey

Muhammad Ali

Marian Anderson

Maya Angelou

Arthur Ashe

Josephine Baker

Ernie Banks

Count Basie

Romare Bearden

Harry Belafonte

Lerone Bennett Jr

Mary Berry

Mary McLeod Bethune

Julian Bond

Arna Bontemps

Edward W. Brooke

Gwendolyn Brooks

James Brown

Ron Brown

Ralph Bunche

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Sherian Grace Cadoria

Stokely Carmichael

Elizabeth Catlett

Shirley Chisholm

Kenneth B. Clark

Septima Clark

Eldridge Cleaver

Johnnie Cochran

Nat "King" Cole

Annie J. Cooper

Bill Cosby

Dorothy Dandridge

Angela Davis

Benjamin O. Davis Sr

Sammy Davis Jr

The Delany sisters. David N. Dinkins

M.J. Divine (Father Divine)

Aaron Douglas

Charles R. Drew

W.E.B. Du Bois

Katherine Dunham

Marian Wright Edelman

Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds

Joycelyn Elders

Duke Ellington

Medgar W. Evers

Louis Farrakhan

Ella Fitzgerald

Aretha Franklin

John Hope Franklin

Marcus Garvey

Henry Louis Gates Jr

Nikki Giovanni

Whoopi Goldberg

Berry Gordy

Earl G. Graves

William H. Gray III

Bryant C. Gumbel

Alex Haley

Fannie Lou Hamer

W.C. Handy

Patricia Harris

William H. Hastie

Charlotte Hawkins Brown

Dorothy Height

Jimi Hendrix

Lena Horne

Charles Hamilton Houston

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

Jesse L. Jackson

Michael Jackson. Shirley Ann Jackson

Mae C. Jemison

Charles S. Johnson

Earvin "Magic" Johnson

James Weldon Johnson

John H. Johnson

Robert L. Johnson

Quincy D. Jones

Barbara Jordan

Michael Jordan

Percy L. Julian

Ernest E. Just

B.B. King

Martin Luther King Jr

Jacob Lawrence

Spike Lee

Alain Locke

Jackie "Moms" Mabley

Haki Madhubuti

Annie Turnbo Malone

Thurgood Marshall

James Meredith

Kweisi Mfume

Oscar Micheaux

Florence Mills

Toni Morrison

Carol E. Moseley-Braun

Elijah Muhammad

Eddie Murphy

Huey P. Newton

Jesse Owens

Charlie "Yardbird" Parker

Gordon Parks

Rosa Parks

Bill Pickett

Sidney Poitier

Alvin F. Poussaint

Adam Clayton Powell Jr

Colin L. Powell. Leontyne Price

Samuel DeWitt Procter

A. Philip Randolph

Paul Robeson

Jackie Robinson

Randall Robinson

Carl T. Rowan

Bayard Rustin

Arthur A. Schomburg

Betty Shabazz

Charles Clinton Spaulding

Mabel Keaton Staupers

Mary Church Terrell

William Monroe Trotter

Rosina Tucker

Melvin Van Peebles

Madame C.J. Walker

Denzel Washington

Maxine Waters

Faye Wattleton

Robert C. Weaver

Ida B. Wells Barnett

Cornel West

Walter White

L. Douglas Wilder

August Wilson

Oprah Winfrey

Tiger Woods

Carter G. Woodson

Richard Wright

Malcolm X

Andrew Young

Coleman Young

Whitney Moore Young Jr. [v. 4]. Civil rights feats and facts / editors, Jessie Carney Smith, Linda T. Wynn. Arts and entertainment. Movements ; Artists ; Entertainers ; filmmakers ; Films ; Music ; Music entrepreneur ; Singers ; Literature ; Writers

Civil rights. Cities and towns ; Freedom celebrations ; Protests ; Race consciousness ; Speeches

Education. Colleges and universities ; Integration of colleges of universities ; Curriculum ; Educators ; Educators ; School desegregation ; Protest Training School

Journalism. Journalists ; Magazines ; News services ; Newspapers

Law and government. Attorneys ; Civil Rights Commission ; Civil rights laws and cases ; Executive order ; Federal Commission ; Federal officials

and intervention ; The military ; Prisons ; Resolutions

Organizations. Groups ; Leaders

Political activists. Abolitionists ; Civil rights activists ; Lynching victim ; Protest letter

Religion. Churches ; Leaders ; Religious education

Sports. Automobile racing ; Baseball ; Basketball ; Bowling ; Boxing ; Cycling ; Football ; Golf ; Horse racing ; Olympics ; Tennis ; Sports writers