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African American National Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)

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The editors preface their presentation of forty-one hundred biographies in eight volumes by noting that, until recently, the Dictionary of American Biography included just a hundred and twenty African-Americans, while black biographical dictionaries have been unabashedly hagiographic. A more thorough historical approach continually reminds us of the troubles of even iconic figures: Jesse Owens, after his Olympic triumphs, goes ...

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