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

BlackPast.org would like to thank Professor Lawrence P. Jackson ofthe English Department at Emory University for his help in compilingthis list. Text sources include William L. Andrews, Frances SmithFoster and Trudier Harris, eds., TheConcise Oxford Companion to African American Literature (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2001); Melvin Donaldson, Cornerstones: An Anthology of AfricanAmerican Literature (New York: St. Martins Press, 1996); HenryLouis Gates and Nellie Y. McKay, eds., The Norton Anthology of African AmericanLiterature (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997); PatriciaLiggins Hill, ed., Call andResponse: The Riverside Anthology of the African American LiteraryTradition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998); MaxRodriguez, Angeli R. Rasbury, and Carol Taylor, eds., Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential BlackBooks (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999).

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