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The young Oxford history of African Americans
By Kelley, Robin D. G. & Lewis, Earl & Palmer, Colin A. & Wood, Peter H. & Littlefield, Daniel F. & White, Deborah Gray & Frankel, Noralee & Bair, Barbara & Grossman, James R. & Trotter, Joe William & Harding, Vincent & Freund, David M. & McQuirter, Marya
- ISBN
- 978-0-19508-798-7
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, c1995-1997.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1996
Gr 8-Up Well-researched, immensely readable accounts that bring African American history to life. Commendably, both authors rely heavily upon primary sources in addition to drawing on a number of general histories and studies of the politics, social and economic conditions, and culture of blacks in America. Frankel makes especially good use of quotations from interviews with former slaves done in the 1930s; Reconstruction Era pension examiners' interviews with Black Civil War widows; Freedmen's Bureau records, etc. Kelley uses quo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
