AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., & Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Editors

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS We are seeking contributors to write biographical entries for the African American National Biography, a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and Oxford University Press. Thelargest African American Studies project ever undertaken, covering abroader range of African American lives than ever before, the AfricanAmerican National Biography will present history through a mosaic of thelives of 10,000 individuals, some known throughout the world and othersall but forgotten, illuminating the abiding influence of AfricanAmericans on the life of this nation through the immediacy of individualexperience. Our goal is to include not only great and famous AfricanAmericans, but a selection of lives that will be representative of thescope of African American experience.

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