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Black Medal of Honor Recipients
The first African American to earn the Medal of Honor was William Carney, a sergeant in the Union's 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Nearly 90 black soldiers have secured the honor, the nation's highest award for valor.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
This year, AASC will expand to include biographies of all the African American winners of the Medal of Honor, whose stories—though overlooked by historians for decades—helped to bring about a more open and just society.
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J. Todd Moye
The film Red Tails has brought renewed attention to the Tuskegee Airmen. But producer George Lucas is not the first filmmaker to examine these heroes. In fact, Hollywood seems to rediscover them once a generation, when their struggles and sacrifices are most relevant.
What's New
- 25 new Primary Source Documents
- 101 new online-only AANB articles
- Family Tree on the Bustills
- Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry
- Guest Editorial by J. Todd Moye, author of Freedom Flyers, on the Tuskegee Airmen
- Letter from the Editor on the growing African American National Biography
- Two new lesson plans on the Black Arts Movement and Sarah Parker Remond
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- Winter 2012 Highlights:
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- African American National Biography: Nearly two-dozen recipients of Army, Navy, and Marine Corps awards, including a dozen recipients of the Medal of Honor, the most prestigious of all armed service tributes in the United States.
- Updates to biographies of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Tiger Woods, Cornel West, Clarence Thomas, Maya Angelou, Chuck D, Tom Joyner, John Lewis, Charles Rangel, Denzel Washington, Maxine Waters, Serena and Venus Williams, and Danny Glover, among over a hundred others.
- Updates to the lists of African American recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Medal of Arts.
- Updated list of African American members of Congress.
- New primary sources detailing women's lives in the era of slavery and the civil rights movement, including laws regarding the rights of mothers, advertisements for escaped slave women, and a journal detailing the living conditions of a slave named Winney.
- Famous speeches delivered by Angela Davis, Lorraine Hansberry, Dorothy Height, and Mary Church Terrell.
- Biography of Linda Carol Brown, the plaintiff in historic civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education.
- Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry
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Author and political commentator Melissa Harris-Perry discusses her latest book, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.
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- Cameron Van Patterson (Harvard University) presents a comprehensive lesson plan on the Black Arts Movement, which includes a complete timeline of important events and figures.
- A lesson plan by Kaye Whitehead (Loyola University Maryland) explores the contributions of the abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond.
- Family Trees
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A new family tree details the Bustill family, whose heroic contributions to the Underground Railroad helped to rescue countless fugitive slaves.
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Over 10,000 articles from Oxford's authoritative reference program — with primary source documents, images, maps, chart and tables, and much more!
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Search and Browse features allow you to focus and refine results by era and subject category.
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Primary Source Documents, with specially written commentaries, take you through the personal and public histories of African Americans.
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Charts and tables provide information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts
