The authors & editors listed below are excellent sources of general information for research on African American History.

BlackPast.org would like to thank Professor Lawrence P. Jackson of the English Department at Emory University for his help in compiling this list. Text sources include William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster and Trudier Harris, eds., The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001); Melvin Donaldson, Cornerstones: An Anthology of African American Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996); Henry Louis Gates and Nellie Y. McKay, eds., The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997); Patricia Liggins Hill, ed., Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998); Max Rodriguez, Angeli R. Rasbury, and Carol Taylor, eds., Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999).

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