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A year-by-year chronology from the 1490s to the 1990s. More than 1,500 carefully researched, year-by-year entries describe important people and events from the worlds of politics, business, education, science and technology, civil rights, the arts, and the military.
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School Library Journal Review
YAAchievements of African Americans from 1492-1993 are arranged in chronological order and then categorized within each year. Sports, the military, literature and journalism, politics and civil rights, and performing and visual arts are the areas covered, with entries ranging in length from one to four lines. No biographical data is given. Famous events and little-known facts are included as well as people, e.g., in 1885 ``there are 74 recorded lynchings.'' The index is thorough and is a must for finding specific entries. This is a great trivia book and a wonderful resource to glean names and facts for research ideas. A visually pleasing and easy-to-read volume.Pat Royal, Crossland High School, Camp Springs, MD (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
In an era when interest in African American history and culture is at its zenith, here is a detailed chronology of this experience. Starting with the year 1492, it notes the appearance of Africans in the so-called New World as explorers. The first bondsmen were indentured servants who arrived in America in 1619 at Jamestown, Virginia. The time line ends in 1993, noting that "Clara 'Mother' Hale, founder of the Hale House for HIV-infected babies in Harlem, dies December 18 in New York." The events of each year are divided into subject categories, such as politics and civil rights, sports, literature and journalism, the military, and the visual arts. Many telling details are included in this work; for example, "1939: Of the 774 libraries in the 13 southern states, 99 admit African Americans." A brief list of contemporary events in the wider American community is given for each year. An index of proper names (but not subjects) aids access. Think of this book as an introduction: behind every fact listed is a story of a useful life, a creative act, a blow for freedom, or an event that made a historical difference. This popularly priced work will be of use in public libraries, secondary media centers, and undergraduate and community college libraries, especially those that didn't purchase the two-volume African American Chronology [RBB F 15 94]. (Reviewed October 15, 1994)
Library Journal Review
Timelines adds to the growing list of chronologies for groups often viewed as being outside the mainstream of American history. Its purpose is to indicate major events in African American history by year and broad subject category, e.g., politics and civil rights, religion and education, sports, etc., and to trace these themes over time and within a given year. In doing so, itlimits its 1500 entries to only a sentence or two, with rare mention of specific dates. Timelines draws heavily from Peter M. Bergman's Chronological History of the Negro in America (LJ 1/15/70), updating it with politically correct terms, but it lacks that chronology's detail and quotations from original documents. Coverage of the last few decades overlaps with and provides more reported events than Alton Hornsby's Chronology of African-American History (LJ 10/1/91) but again with less detail. The overall format is well organized, and events are easily located, but readers should turn elsewhere to understand their context and significance.-Stanley P. Hodge, Ball State Univ. Lib., Muncie, Ind. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
