African American Studies: Biography

Search the library catalog by subject and enter the individual's name (last name first) as the subject term.

Search the library catalog by author and enter the individual's name (last name first). 

Examples: 

King, Martin Luther

Obama, Barack 

See Slave Narratives: a guide to primary source accounts of life under slavery.

Collective Biography

• African American Lives  REF E 185.96 .A446 2004
• Black Americans in Congress,   REF E185.96 R25
• Black Women in America:  A Historical Encyclopedia.  REF E185.86 .B542
• Dictionary of American Negro Biography  REF 185.86 .D53
• Freedom's Lawmakers:  A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction 
• REF E 185.96  .F64
• Who's Who Among African Americans (annual --)  REF E185.96 .W52

Guides to Autobiographies/Diaries/Narratives

• Afro American Biographies: A bibliography  REF E185.96 .B1 A375 2000
• American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliograpy of Published American Diaries and Journals .  REF CT 1214 B1 A75 vols 1-2 (See Afro-Americans in the index.)
•  Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1980 -1994:  An Annotated Bibliography.  REF CT 220 .B1 S88 1997

•  Black Americans in Congress 

Contains biographical profiles of former African-American Members of Congress, links to information about current black Members.