African-American History: Selections from the Five-Volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (The Macmillan Compendium Series)

From School Library JournalGrade 9 Up-Selected from the multivolume Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (Macmillan, 1995), these alphabetically arranged entries cover myriad subjects from the "Amistad Mutiny" to the "Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment." Critical and interpretive commentary is offered on many topics: August Wilson is referred to as "Perhaps the leading African-American playwright of his generation...," and zydeco music is compared to Cajun music. Each authoritative, signed essay concludes with a bibliography. The information is easy to access through a thorough table of contents, an index, and cross-references that appear within the articles. Quotations in large print and occasional, captioned black-and-white photographs break up the pages. A useful resource for libraries that do not own a more comprehensive encyclopedia on African-American history.Janet Woodward, Garfield High School, Seattle, WACopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.Product DescriptionEntries offer profiles of prominent African Americans, and provide information on important organizations, events, and movements in African American historyFrom BooklistSelections from the five-volume Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (Macmillan, 1996).
Author: Salzman, Jack

Publisher: Macmillan Library Reference

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0028649796

ISBN-13: 9780028649795