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African American biography.
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- Detroit, MI : U X L, c1994.
- 1994
- 4 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E185.96 .A44 1994 vol.4 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E185.96 .A44 1994 vol.3 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E185.96 .A44 1994 vol.2 Off-site African American biography.
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- Detroit, Mich. : UXL, c1994.
- 1994
- 4 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *920-A (African American biography) v. 4 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *920-A (African American biography) v. 3 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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African American national biography / Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, editors in chief.
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- New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- 2013
- 12 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *920-A v. 12: Wheeler, John Hervey-Zydeco, Buckwheat... Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *920-A v.11: Taborn, Earl "Mickey"-Wheeler, Emma Rochelle Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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The African American national biography / editors in chief, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham.
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- 2008
- 16 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR E185.96 .A4466 2008 v.8 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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Two biographies by African-American women / with an introduction by William L. Andrews.
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PS508.N3 S36 1988g v.26 v.26 Off-site Two biographies by African-American women / with an introduction by William L. Andrews.
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
- 1991
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 95-109 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 91-295 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African rhythm--American dance; a biography of Katherine Dunham.
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- New York, Knopf [1974]
- 1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *MGYB (Dunham) 75-648 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Black lives : essays in African American biography / edited by James L. Conyers, Jr.
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- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 99-255 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Born to win : a poetic biography of African-Americans / John Z. Reid.
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- Missouri City, TX : Caribbean Pub. House, 1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 96-663 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African American historical figures : a series of paintings and biographies / by artist Yusuf A.-K Rasheed.
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- Jersey City, N.J. : New Mind Productions, 1985.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 87-294 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African rhythm--American dance; a biography of Katherine Dunham.
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- Knopf, [c1974]
- 1974
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *MGYB (Dunham) 75-648 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc B-Dunham, K. (Harnan, T. African rhythm) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Saving American Beach : the biography of African American environmentalist MaVynee Betsch / written by Heidi Tyline King ; illustrated by Caldecott honoree Ekua Holmes.
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- New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2021]
- 2021
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc+ F 22-45 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Biographies of famous African leaders / Joseph Ajayi Fashagba.
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- Toronto : African Books International, c1997.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 01-525 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African-American religious leaders : a-z of African Americans / Nathan Aaseng.
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- New York, NY : Facts On File, c2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *200.92-A (Aaseng, N. African-American religious leaders) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Dictionary of American Negro biography / edited by Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston.
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- New York : Norton, c1982.
- 1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 920 D Offsite Not available - In use until 2024-07-03 - Please for assistance.Dictionary of American negro biography / edited by Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston.
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- New York : Norton, c1982.
- 1982
- 5 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR E185.96 .L6 1982 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *920-D (Dictionary of American Negro biography) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 00-150 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Desk Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Afro-American biographies : a bibliography / Sara Mitchell, editor.
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- Huntington, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Z1361.N39 A375 2000 Off-site Afro-American biographies : a bibliography / Sara Mitchell, editor.
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- Huntington, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *920.016-M (Mitchell, S. Afro-American biographies) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Historical Afro-American biographies / by Wilhelmena S. Robinson. Rev. ed.
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- Cornwells Heights, Pa. : Publishers Agency, 1976.
- 1976
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *920.9-R (Robinson, W. Historical Afro-American biographies) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black American biography, compiled by Robert Swisher, and Black American scientists, compiled by Carol Tullis, and Black Americans in public affairs, compiled by Richard Hicks.
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- [Bloomington] Indiana University Libraries, 1969.
- 1969
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IEC 72-144 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 016.92-S (Swisher, R. Black American biography) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A biography of Edwin Henry Hackley (1859-1940) : African-American attorney and activist / Lisa Pertillar Brevard.
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- Lewiston, N.Y. ; Lampeter, Wales : Edwin Mellen Press, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E185.97.H22 B74 2002 Off-site African American biographies : profiles of 558 current men and women / by Walter L. Hawkins.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1992.
- 1992
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR E185.96 .H38 1992 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *920-H (Hawkins, W. African American biographies) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
This far by faith : readings in African-American women's religious biography / edited by Judith Weisenfeld and Richard Newman.
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- New York : Routledge, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text BR563.N4 T463 1996 Off-site Not available - Please for assistance.African American biographies, 2 : profiles of 332 current men and women / by Walter L. Hawkins.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1994.
- 1994
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR E185.96 .H38 1994 Suppl. Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *920-H (Hawkins, W. African American biographies) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
On the trail of the buffalo soldier : biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 / compiled and edited by Frank N. Schubert.
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- Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text U52 .O5 1994 Off-site Joe Gans : a biography of the first African American world boxing champion / Colleen Aycock and Mark Scott.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 09-12 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Children's biographies of African American women : rhetoric, public memory, and agency / Sara C. VanderHaagen.
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- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
- 2018
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 19-376 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Pioneering African-American women in the advertising business : biographies of MAD black WOMEN / Judy Foster Davis.
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- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- 2017
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 17-316 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Biography of an American bondman / by his daughter.
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- Boston : Published by R.F. Wallcut, 21 Cornhill, 1856.
- 1856-1855
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare 326.92-B (Brown, J. ...American bondman) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare C 83-61 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Joe Gans : a biography of the first African American world boxing champion / Colleen Aycock and Mark Scott.
- Text
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GV1132.G33 A93 2008 Off-site A biography of Edwin Henry Hackley (1859-1940) : African-American attorney and activist / Lisa Pertillar Brevard.
- Text
- Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 03-380 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
This far by faith : readings in African-American women's religious biography / edited by Judith Weisenfeld and Richard Newman.
- Text
- New York : Routledge, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 96-5 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African American biographies, 3 : profiles of 909 current men and women / Walter L. Hawkins.
- Text
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2009.
- 2009
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 14-281 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
On the trail of the buffalo soldier : biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 / compiled & edited by Frank N. Schubert.
- Text
- Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources Inc., 1994.
- 1994
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-USLHG U52 .O5 1994 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *355-O (On the trail of the buffalo soldier) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
"This world is not my home" : a critical biography of African American writer Charles Wright / W. Lawrence Hogue.
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2023]
- 2023
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 23-1094 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Native son. (The biography of a young American). A play in three acts by Paul Green and Richard Wright, from the novel by Richard Wright. A Mercury production by Orson Welles, presented on March 24, 1941, St. James Theatre.
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- [New York, 1941]
- 1941
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NCOF+ (Green, P. Native son. The biography of a young American) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
African-American heroes & heroines : 150 true stories of African-American heroism / written & illustrated by Kathryn I. Bel Monte.
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- Hollywood, Fla. : Lifetime Books, c1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 98-494 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African and African-American puppetry : an exhibition.
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- Atlanta, Ga. : Center for Puppetry Arts, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 03-1751 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
American earth; the biography of a nation.
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- Philadelphia, New York [etc.] J.B. Lippincott Company [c1939]
- 1939
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IAE (Beals, C. American earth; the biography of a nation) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 330.973-B (Beals, C. American earth) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African American religious leaders / Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson.
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- Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley & Sons, c2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2007027347-t.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 08-818 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Extraordinary African-American poets / Therese Neis.
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- Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, [2013]
- 2013
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 18-1131 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African American early newspaper online collection : African American biographical dictionary / Godfrey Memorial Library.
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- Middletown, CT : Godfrey Memorial Library, c2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 08-203 no. 1-7 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African-American medical pioneers / Charles H. Epps, Jr., Davis G. Johnson, Audrey L. Vaughan.
- Text
- Rockville, Md. : Betz Pub. Co., c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text R695 .E67 1994 Off-site Great African-American women / Darryl Lyman.
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- Middle Village, N.Y. : J. David, c1999.
- 1999
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 99-3224 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 99-637 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A history of African American autobiography / edited by Joycelyn K. Moody.
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- 2021-2021
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 21-1501 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African-American medical pioneers / Charles H. Epps, Jr., Davis G. Johnson, Audrey L. Vaughan.
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- Rockville, Md. : Betz Pub. Co., [1994], ©1994.
- 1994-1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text R695 .E67 1994 Off-site African-American inventors / by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack.
- Text
- Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 926.09 M Offsite African and African-American art song [sound recording] / presented by New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center ; series producer, Alan J. Pally.
- Audio
- New York, 2002.
- 2002
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LTC-A 965 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LTC-A 965 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Profiles of great African Americans / contributing writers, David Smallwood, Stan West, Allison Keyes.
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- Lincolnwood, IL : Publications International, [2000]
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc+ F 17-444 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Biographical dictionary of African Americans / Rachel Kranz and Philip J. Koslow.
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- New York : Facts on File, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *920-K (Kranz, R. Biographical dictionary of African Americans) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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