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Indexes of biographies and rare books
Featuring unique historical information
Overview
In a single landmark collection, the African American Biographical Database (AABD) brings together biographies, rare books, and historical information on thousands of African-Americans--many not found in any other reference source.
AABD is a research tool for librarians, political and social historians, genealogists, scholars, students, and anyone interested in the rich cultural heritage of the African American community.
Portraying thousands of African Americans from every walk of life, AABD includes sketches of national activists; state and local figures; prominent women; legal, medical, educational, business, and other professionals; musicians, artists and writers; church and missionary leaders; social club and fraternal order members; reform organization members; former slaves; and more.
AABD includes biographies of over 30,000 African-Americans in more than 40,000 sketches from Chadwyck-Healey's acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950. AABD is searchable by name of subject of the biography, by subject's place of birth, occupation, religion, date of birth or death, gender, and by source of information. In addition, AABD offers full-text searching for over 140 titles.
除了直接在线访问传记信息外，用户将能够查看成千上万的照片和插图，以及用于编译传记的传记字典。可以搜索或查看作为源的所有卷，从而提供对稀有书籍的电子访问，并允许进一步历史和文化研究。
The editors for the African American Biographical Database are Randall K. Burkett, African-American Studies Bibliographer, Emory University, Nancy Hall Burkett, Librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Afro-American Studies Chair, Harvard University.
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